Association of Pharmaceutical Research and Development (APRaD) What was the vision behind the creation of APRaD back in 2007 and what was lacking in the market at that time that called for such an association? APRaD originated from a group of general managers of international pharmaceutical companies who felt that the interests of international pharma were not…
Unipharm You recently switched from Novartis to Unipharm. Given the major differences in environment and portfolio, what was it about Unipharm in particular that attracted you and what are you bringing on board? Many of my friends and colleagues were surprised and asked me what the reason is for my move…
Pharmavision Turkey You have pharmaceuticals production in your background and have recently joined PharmaVision as General Manager. To what extent does this speak about the company’s direction? Could you elaborate on your career and key milestones that led you to become General Manager at PharmaVision? My career began after university, when I…
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 infectious diseases, such as HIV, AIDS and TB on the other. South Africa represents 0.4% of the world’s population, yet…
MC Pharma SA Could you introduce to our readers MC Pharma’s business model in the South African market as well as the main milestones in the company’s development over the recent years? MC Pharma is a licensed pharmaceutical company and acts as a Holder of the Certificate of Registration (Marketing Authorisation Holder; MAH),…
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. Could you compare the two and tell us what position you enjoyed the most? I think I prefer the creative…
Giddi Pharma Co. Ltd. Giddi Pharma was founded in 1995. What was the vision behind the creation of the company? What founding principles did you have when you founded Giddi? When I founded this company, biotech was an industry that was displaying high potential. When looking at how to get involve d in the…
ScinoPharm 2010 is ScinoPharm’s thirteenth year of operations. Thirteen does not seem to be an unlucky number for you as your company is doing particularly well at the moment. Perhaps you could start by telling our readers a little bit about the recent history of ScinoPharm and the good times that…
Orient Europharma Co. You founded Orient Europharma in 1982, nearly 30 years ago. As you approach the 30 year mark, how has the company evolved to the way it is today, and how would you describe the company to our readers? I left Upjohn in 1982 and established Orient Europharma (OEP) as a…
Standard Chem & Pharm I was very surprised to see a company called ‘Standard Chemical and Pharmaceutical’ ranked amongst the top three local players in Taiwan: it seems as though your company is far from standard. What is it about Standard Pharm that stops it from being just an average pharmaceutical company? My father,…
Martindale Pharma Having worked in the pharmaceutical industry for the past three decades, what attracted you to Martindale Pharma in October 2010 and what plans do you have for the company? When I was invited to join Martindale I was tasked with the mission to identify a strategy for the company and…
Watson Pharmaceuticals UK Following the acquisition of Arrow Generics by Watson in December 2009, what complementarities and synergies were generated from the transaction and where do you stand today with the integration? Since its creation in 1984, Watson was a generic pharmaceutical company that was predominantly US based until the acquisition of Arrow…
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