Robert J. Coury

Robert J. Coury (born October 1960) is an American business executive. He is currently the executive chairman at Viatris, an American global pharmaceutical, and healthcare corporation headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. The company is headed by its CEO Michael Goettler and president Rajiv Malik.

Robert Coury was born in October 1960. He studied Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Before joining Viatris, Coury served as CEO and later executive chairman of Mylan, a global generic and specialty pharmaceuticals company founded in 1961 by Milan Puskar and Don Panoz. Coury was first elected to Mylan's board of directors in February 2002, having served since 1995 as a strategic adviser to the company. He became the board's vice chairman shortly after his election and served as its CEO from September 2002 until January 2012. He then served as its executive chairman until 2016. Under his leadership, Mylan went from being the third-largest generics pharmaceutical company in the U.S. to one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, earning spots in both the S&P 500 and, prior to the company's reincorporation outside of the U.S. in 2015, the Fortune 500. In a report published on June 12, 2017, Institutional Shareholder Services criticized the company for the "outsized compensation" of its directors. Coury received a $98 million 2016 pay package in spite of shareholder losses and the perceived harm to the company inflicted by the EpiPen controversies. The report urged the company's shareholders to oust all of the existing directors. Coury left Mylan in 2016, along with other executives including its CEO Heather Bresch.

Coury is also the founder and president of the Robert J. Coury Family Foundation, which is a private foundation formed to help support his philanthropic efforts and his mission of giving back. He has served as a member of the University of Southern California President's Leadership Council since 2014.

In 2016, Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, added Robert J. Coury Applied Leadership Program.

Coury's son, Tino Coury (born 17 August 1988, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), is a noted American businessman and singer-songwriter/musician.