SHARON Schartung Clarke is the president of Meda Pharmaceuticals in central New Jersey. Meda is a division of a global pharmaceuticals company with headquarters in Solna, Sweden. Meda is ranked 50 in the world of pharmaceutical sales.

Schartung Clarke has more than 21 years of sales, sales training and sales management experience within the pharmaceutical industry. She plays a key leadership role in the company’s sales planning, organizational development and market analysis activities, and was recognized in 2006 as an HBA Rising Star.

Schartung Clarke holds a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in microbiology and chemistry from East Tennessee State University.

Schartung Clarke has visited Ireland in the past, and traces her Irish roots to Co. Kerry.

“My Irish heritage has been handed down through many generations of the Riney family. Stories have been kept alive through grandparents to families through nine generations, as my children know about their Irish heritage,” she says.

“The stories of immigration to the U.S. during a time of Catholic persecution have been preserved. Our genealogy traces back to a time when the church was not able to keep records of family births and deaths, so our information is limited beyond that point. I am proud to know the strength of my ancestors and to carry that on to my children today.”

Schartung Clarke is married with three children.

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