Tagged with MEA

Morocco Mohamed El Bouhmadi, president and CEO of Zenith Pharma, walks us through the company’s evolution since we last met in 2015. He shares his strategy to position the company as the Moroccan champion in Africa through in-house product development and production as well as implementing an export strategy in close…

UAE Neil McMaster, GAC Dubai’s General Manager Contract Logistics, discusses the key investments his company has made to stand out as the region’s go-to healthcare and pharmaceutical logistics provider, offering added-value services and high-quality customer standards. He also introduces GAC Dubai’s new high-tech building facility, reveals the key trends and challenges…

MEA Pierre Fabre’s recently appointed head for Africa, the Middle East and Turkey, Mouloud Boukhachab, outlines his career trajectory, having worked and managed in geographies as diverse as BeNeLux and Morocco. Boukhachab also states his priorities for his new position and his strategy for navigating the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and lockdown…

Morocco Salim El Guermai, CEO & head pharmacist of Galenica, a leading generics company in Morocco, presents the original mission of the company to provide high-quality affordable medicines to Moroccan patients by developing and manufacturing its own portfolio as an alternative to expensive imported drugs. El Guermai also shares his ambitions…

Mexico Inosan Biopharma General Manager Juan Lopez de Silanes outlines the Mexican family company’s recent milestones, including an impressive internationalisation push in the Middle East & Africa Region, how demand for antivenom products is evolving in emerging markets, and why knowledge transfer and inter-stakeholder collaboration is key for the firm’s future…

UAE Emcure, a fully-integrated Indian pharmaceutical company with a global presence, has invested in Dubai as an operational hub for the Middle East, North and West Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Amr El-Neklawy, Emcure’s general manager for the region, explains how the company’s wide product offering and culture attracted him to the…

Morocco Ali Besri, Pfizer Morocco GM and North Africa Lead reveals the importance of Morocco’s stability and assets allowing the country to be recognized internationally for its manufacturing investments and capabilities and highlights how Pfizer has capitalized on this with a footprint in the country for over half a century. Looking…

Morocco Saad Kanbris, who has been heading Novartis operations in Morocco, Tunisia & Libya since January 2018, discusses the importance of ‘the context’ and temporality while analyzing the improvement and the next steps for the Moroccan market and the region he manages.   It makes no sense to grow if there…

UAE Medtronic’s president for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, Majid Kaddoumi, explains the two main challenges for medical technology companies in the region, the ways in which data could revolutionize the industry and why emerging markets with higher penetration rates could potentially bring four or five times the…

Morocco Alain Barry, managing director of MSD in Morocco, shares how the organization is partnering with the Moroccan healthcare community to ensure that patients have access to innovative therapies and vaccines.   Morocco has been a pioneer in the region in the field of immunization by introducing innovative vaccines in the…

UAE When the photographic film industry faced a crisis in the early 2000s, market leader Kodak began to struggle and was obliged to make an existential decision. In 2010, worldwide demand for photographic film had fallen to less than a tenth of what it had been only ten years before. Two…

UAE Medica Group provides medical aesthetics, cosmetics and dermatology, and plastic surgery products and equipment across the Middle East and South East Asia. As a self-made entrepreneur, Elias Chabtini, co-founder and CEO, reflects on the humble origins of the company and its transition to becoming a key player in the region,…