Tagged with Puerto Rico

marketing Ivelisse Casillas, founder of PharMaCon, Inc. talks about the challenges of marketing and advertising pharmaceuticals products in Puerto Rico. She founded the company in 2000 to provide advertising, legal and medical expertise to the sector. What are the main advertising challenges that your clients face with which you can help them? The biggest…

Puerto Rico Medical device manufacturer CMO C-Axis founded its facility in Puerto Rico in 2003. Jared Haley, the affiliate’s general manager, discusses new technologies and the company’s positioning within Puerto Rico’s growing medtech sector as a key service provider to the industry. Looking at C-Axis’s products and services here, what are the…

Puerto Rico Puerto Rico’s healthcare insurance market is the first in Latin America in terms of penetration and sixth in terms of premium volume. Ángela Weyne, Insurance Commissioner of Puerto Rico, discusses how recent amendments to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have been implemented locally, how she is spurring healthy competition among…

pharma Ana Myriam Irizarry, plant manager for LifeScan in Puerto Rico, discusses the competitive nature of the facility’s production of diabetes test strips and the immense talent that Puerto Rico has to offer in terms of manufacturing talent. What makes LifeScan’s test strips so innovative? It is the quality of our…

Puerto Rico Verónica Cruz, PhD, executive vice president and COO of Puerto Rican consultancy ReComS Group, discusses the need to bring investments in the life science industry back to Puerto Rico while focusing on the country’s manufacturing strengths as a competitive advantage. What are the main challenges which ReComS is facing? Today…

Puerto Rico PharmaBoardroom spoke to Osvaldo Caro, President, Chairman and CEO of ReComS, about the legal side of the pharmaceuticals sector in Puerto Rico. What are ReComS’ defining characteristics? ReComS is the only company in Puerto Rico that provides consulting services through a combination of attorneys and other professionals. Our staff is divided…

Puerto Rico Enrique Alejandro, Director and Team Leader (Finance) of Pfizer Puerto Rico discusses the pharma company’s manufacturing assets in the country. He stresses the importance of innovation as a key to staying competitive in today’s industry. What products are being manufactured in Pfizer’s Puerto Rico facilities? In Barceloneta, our site produces Active Product…