Lonza Czech Republic Mr. Kužela, you have a very interesting background: from 1993 until 2011, you variously worked for the Staropramen beer factory and its parent organization, StarBev. You identify yourself as an experienced professional in managing the supply chain of FMCG products. How did you come to manage a biotechnology business, and…
CMS Cameron McKenna Czech Republic Mr. Matějovský, let’s begin our discussion with a very simple question. The Czech Republic is quite a small country, and yet it seems to have one of the most complicated pharmaceutical regulatory frameworks in Europe–ensuring, for instance, that market access for drugs can take up to three years longer in…
Merck Belgium In your 8 years of experience within the group, how would you classify the competitive advantages derived for the company’s unique familial ownership structure? Due to its history and strong values, Merck certainly does have a specific corporate culture which helps to shape its unique character. This is further enhanced…
MSD Belgium It truly seems that you have pharma in your genes, with a father who successfully developed a migraine drug in addition to your 4 years practicing medicine and now continuing an 18 year career with MSD. What distinguishes MSD as a pharmaceutical company in your opinion? At MSD, we are…
FeBelGen Looking into your background, we see that you’ve spent 8 years at pharma.be, where you were advocating the traditional drug producers. What encouraged you to head FeBelGen since 2006, representing the generic and biosimilar drugs industry in Belgium? When I started to head FeBelGen in 2006, my goal/objective was –…
Servier Czech Republic You joined this affiliate in October of 2011, having spent the preceding three years as GM for Servier Slovakia. What are the principal differences you found between these two markets? The first difference is of course the size of the market—the Czech Republic has a market value of approximately 2Bn…
BeAPP Can you provide us with an overview of BeAPP’s missions & objectives and your role as President of the association? Stefaan Vancayzeele (SV): The primary mission of the Belgian association of pharmaceutical physicians is to support and represent the interests of its members throughout their careers. In addition to this,…
pharma.be Mr Neels, can you please begin by introducing our readers to pharma.be and describe its key activities and vision? pharma.be is the General Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Belgium that is currently composed of approximately 140 pharmaceutical companies with operations in Belgium. As a full partner of physicians, pharmacists,…
Biofarma Natural CMD Biofarma Natural CMD started operations in 1992 as a company focused on natural products. Please can you give us an insight into how the company has grown since then? I founded the company in 1992, and we had just four people working in the company in total, and we started…
Biocodex Although Biocodex has a commercial presence in over 100 countries, it currently operates only five subsidiaries, one of them being Biocodex Belgium. What were primary motivating factors behind this strategic decision and what is the importance of Belgium to the company’s global operations and overall performance? The Belgian subsidiary was…
Carnot Laboratories Carnot is celebrating 70 years as a company. There have been a lot of changes over this time, but more specifically over the last three to four years, please can you describe to us in your own words the evolution of the Mexican pharmaceutical industry, and the most impactful changes…
AIFD - Association of Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies Pharmaceutical Executive and Focus Reports are of course about the industry but also about the people making it happen. So before anything would you like to introduce yourself to our readers and expose the career path that has led you to take the helm of Turkey’s leader in the pharmaceutical…
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