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Interview with Selwyn Kahanovitz, CEO, Litha Healthcare Group Limited

Mr Kahanovitz, Focus Reports came to South Africa in 2005 to produce a similar report on the South African pharmaceutical industry. Could you come back for us on the main…

Interview with Timothy Kedijang, General Manager, Novo Nordisk South Africa

The story of Novo Nordisk South Africa began in 1959 in Johannesburg. It was among the first affiliates outside of Denmark, with insulin and anti-infectives produced locally. To what extent…

Interview with Erika Koppers, COO & GM, Roche SA

You have worked at Roche for several years as Business unit Manager. Therefore you are familiar with the strategy of the company and the intricacies of the job. The new…

Interview with Luciano Marques, Novartis South Africa

Having spent two months as the head of Novartis South Africa, what is your first assignment as General Manager, could you share with our readers what were the surprises for…

Interview with Paul Miller, Vice President and Managing Director, Mylan SA

Mr. Miller, you have been Vice President and Managing Director of Mylan’s operations in South Africa since 2008. What mission were you assigned back then, and in those three years,…

Interview with Stavros Nicolaou, Chairman, PHARMISA South Africa

South Africa carries one of the world’s most disproportionate disease burdens, the worst of so-called westernised diseases, such as cardiac disease, diabetes etc on the one hand and the developmental…

Interview with John Norman, Country Manager, Nycomed South Africa

Mr Norman, could you tell us a few words on the transformation process that the company is currently going through? Takeda acquired Nycomed in October 2011, because it was an…

Interview with Michael Azrak, Managing Director, MSD South Africa

If we take a look at MSD’s international presence, the group has grown into the third largest pharma company in the world. Here in South Africa, you are in the…

Interview with Laura Engelbrecht Joubert, General Manager – South Africa,…

Ms Joubert, could you start by telling our readers over the 16 months of heading the operations here, what have been the most challenging situations as the General Manager of…

Stephen Saad, Group Chief Executive, Aspen

The line between research based pharmaceutical companies and generic companies is today less and less relevant, as we have seen in the past few years generic companies climb up the…

Interview with Patrick Godard, Chief Executive Officer, Amayeza Abuntu (SA 2011)

Mr. Godard, you previously worked in Europe for Baxter Edwards Life Sciences, what made you decide to move to South Africa in a smaller company? It is a purely romantic…

Interview with John D Hallam, Chairman, Abex Pharmaceutica

Your professional career went back and forth between creating your own business and running a smaller and very dynamic structure and managing over a thousand of employees for multinational organizations.…