Katherine Betz-Doherty is Head of People & Organization for Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA), a Novartis company. Prior to joining AAA in 2018, Katherine served as Head of Human Resources for three Novartis Group global functions (Human Resources, Communications & Advocacy and Global Health and Corporate Responsibility). In this position she partnered with leadership teams across the organizational matrix to embed talent, capabilities and a culture agenda. Since joining Novartis in 1999, Katherine has worked on multiple transformational efforts in the areas of acquisitions, innovative business models, and capability development while building people and patient centric cultures. From 2013 to 2016, she was Head of Human Resources for Genoptix, a molecular diagnostics lab and a start-up business acquired by Novartis. Before this she spent several years at Novartis Pharmaceuticals in compensation, talent management, organization development and lastly leading HR Business Partner teams in the Specialty Medicine and Business functions groups for the US General Medicine unit. Katherine started her career in Human Resources working with several well-known global leaders in high tech and consulting, including Dell Computers, Cap Gemini and Anderson Consulting. Katherine holds a Bachelor degree in Labor and Industrial Relations from Pennsylvania State University and a Master degree in Management and Organization Development from College of St. Elizabeth in New Jersey.