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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…

Ireland Shane Ryan, in his first month as Country Lead for Takeda Products Ireland, speaks about his mandate to position Takeda as the leader in IBD and oncology with exciting new product launches, the evolving pharmaceutical and healthcare landscape in Ireland, and the drive to help patients that motivates him every…

Mexico Alan Smithers, CEO at IFA Celtics, highlights the obesity as a national healthcare challenge and explains the company’s strategy to enlarge its capabilities to cope with the increasing needs of the patients’ and physicians’ communities. Could you please introduce yourself to our international as well as the main activities and…

Switzerland Switzerland may have a world class healthcare system, but small adjustments are needed to ensure incentives for payer and providers are properly aligned with the patient’s ultimate quality and value of care. Dr. Cassis, could you please introduce yourself, with reference to your experience and current responsibilities in the realm…

Luxembourg Novartis’ newest Head for the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg provides a fascinating insight into the Luxembourg market and reveals how this small nation has found itself in pole position for future pharmaceutical innovation. After over a decade with GSK, you joined Novartis one and half years ago. What made you join…

Switzerland Advances in delivery technology and manufacturing costs have driven a surge of activity in peptide drug development, says Thomas Früh, CEO of Bachem –  the largest and most advanced peptide drug CMO in the world. Peptide therapeutics are a hot topic in the pharma industry today – what’s the story…

Ireland Donal Higgins, MD of Prochem Engineering, provides an overview of their life sciences operations, the key innovations they are bringing to the industry like computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and his mission to position Prochem as the  leading multi-disciplinary engineering company in the southeast of Ireland. Donal, can you give our…

Philippines Ebb Hinchliffe, Executive Director of the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, discusses the Chamber’s current advocacy efforts in the country and their strategic objectives moving forward in terms of increasing the already strong business ties between the United States and the Philippines. He also discusses the potential for…

Switzerland Outsourcing of API synthesis has stabilized in the decade since Rohner Chem entered the pharma sector in earnest, and according to CEO Daniel Pedrett the company has reached a position where it is faster, more agile and more experienced than the internal supply organizations of many mid-sized innovators. You were…

Singapore Boehringer Ingelheim’s (BI) country managing director in South East Asia and South Korea (SEASK), Gerrard McKenna characterizes the recent changes within the family-owned business as “evolutionary” in nature, while highlighting the key role that Singapore plays in capitalizing on the blossoming opportunities in the region. It seems it’s been a…

Slovakia The basics on the country of Slovakia: name, date of independence, geography, population, currency, language, and capital. Slovakia is well integrated into the international community, with membership of the majority of large transnational institutions. Slovakia is located at the heart of Europe, within a short flight of almost every other…

Switzerland Helsinn is a leader in cancer supportive care, and Vice Chairman and CEO Riccardo Braglia enthusiastically discusses the Group’s entrance into the field of oncology therapeutics and the launch of the new Helsinn Investment Fund.   Helsinn Advanced Synthesis in Biasca is a very advanced site capable of synthesizing high…