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Philippines Ivan Alexi Arota, country manager of GE Healthcare Philippines, discusses the company’s extensive efforts to increase access to their innovative, affordable products throughout the country.  He also expands on the important role that partnerships, both with the government and other private companies, play in terms of growing the company as…

Ireland Mary Harney, Chairperson of the European Steering Group (ESG) on Sustainable Healthcare, outlines the mandate and activities of the Group, the financial tsunami that European healthcare systems face and the fundamental challenges behind building a new sustainable healthcare system; and exhorts all stakeholders to get involved. Mary, you chair the…

Switzerland Nasri Nahas, CEO of Biopôle in Switzerland, discusses his motivations for joining the biotech, and his mission to re-position the organization as a life sciences ecosystem bringing together academia, business, and research. What motivated you to join Biopôle in October 2015? I began my career as a molecular biologist in France…

Switzerland The Chairman of Ferring’s Group Operating Committee and Senior Vice President Europe-Canada elaborates on how Europe can be the thinking engine for global pharmaceutical trends.   Ferring has bundled the European and Canadian markets into one single region. Could you please introduce us to the full scope of your role…

Luxembourg Sound infrastructure, a prime location in the heart of Europe, government support, and an unwavering focus on quality are all helping make the tiny principality of Luxembourg a serious player in global healthcare logistics. “Some high ranked senior logistics executives from pharma companies have commented that [the Luxair Cargo Healthcare &…

Ireland Frederic Secail, General Manager of Servier’s second strategic and international production facility within Servier Industry, located in Arklow, Ireland, outlines his ambitious transformation program, Arklow 2020, to anticipate and prepare the site for the future. You have been GM of Servier’s Arklow facility since 2013. What was the mandate given…

Singapore Martin Dewhurst of the Global Pharmaceuticals and Medical Products Practice at McKinsey & Company provides his view of the Asia Pacific Medtech Forum 2016 in Singapore and elaborates on the prominent trends for the industry in the region. What have been your first impressions of the MedTech Forum and your…

Singapore Eli Lilly and Company General Manager of South ASEAN, Dr. Faiz Ansari speaks about the expanded scope of his role,  Lilly’s pipeline, and the approach that Lilly has taken to support healthcare delivery and improve patients‘ access to treatment and to support programs in a region that is so inherently…

Mexico Francisco Rodriguez, general manager Mexico and Latin America at Mundipharma, provides an overview of the customized market approach that has allowed the company to establish itself as the partner of choice of the medical and regulatory authorities in the pain management field, and how Mundipharma now looks at replicating similar…

Ireland Chairman for BioPharmaChemical Ireland and Leader of Pfizer’s two small molecule API manufacturing sites in Cork, Seamus Fives recounts his team’s efforts to avert the closure of the Little Island facility through improvements in operating efficiency, and discusses how Pfizer is re-equipping their small molecule facilities to fit the needs…

Switzerland Gaelle Meaude, operations director of Thea Switzerland, talks about building an effective sales and marketing team over the last few years; why the Swiss preservative-free eye care market remains particularly dynamic; and how working for a French family run entrepreneurial company, with five generations of expertise in the field of…

Mexico The university spin-off UDIBI continues its unstoppable ascension: after being recently recognized by Cofepris, Mexico’s sanitary agency, as an authorized laboratory to assess biotech treatments entering the Mexican market, UDIBI has no started to develop its own, innovative compounds. Sonia Mayra Peréz Tapia, executive director of UDIBI, highlights the ambitious…