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PharmaLegacy Could you give us some personal background and tell us why you choose to come to the CRO side after a successful career at a multinational? A lot of people ask why I chose to make this transition after being at a pretty good position at Procter & Gamble, with…

Luye Pharma What was the transition like from academia into entrepreneurship and what challenges did you face in beginning this company? I realized during this period in the late 1980s that there were no local Chinese companies doing what I wanted to do at the time so I saw there was an…

Kampar Kampar began its operations in Chile in 2005. What have been the main milestones and achievements of the company in the last five years? Our main achievement since the creation of Kampar has been our strong market penetration. We have certified products coming from specific sources with norms and standards…

Knop Chile The Bayer Schering merger in 2006 saw you add Argentina and Bolivia to your existing main milestones and achievements of the company since you have been at the head? My father first began importing homeopathic products and phytomedicines from France, Germany and England in 1920. He continued to study alternative…

World Courier Chile What have been the main milestones and achievements of the company since it established itself in Chile in 1980? I think our main achievement has been to always be a pioneer in the services that we offer our clients. By being a pioneer we continually provide the best services, such…

Merck Serono China As growth has stalled in Europe, the US and Japan, many multinational companies are looking at China as part of a hedging strategy and a key growth driver of the future. You must be feeling a lot of pressure from company headquarters as well as the natural pressures of working…

IMS Health Chile IMS was recently acquired by two investment funds, how has this affected the operations of the company and what changes did it bring in the Chilean context? So far, the acquisition has been beneficial for our Chilean operations. We expect bigger transformations to take place starting January 1st 2011, and…

Alliance of Bio-Box Outsourcing China Could you please give a brief introduction to the ABO and its history? ABO was established in 2005. The CRO business emerged in 2000 in China, and provided services for medicine factories; however, these CRO companies were small as individuals. As a result, they were gathered together and ABO was…

Alliance of Bio-Box Outsourcing China Please introduce to our readers the general situation and driving force behind the creation of the Beijing Pharma and Biotech Center and its core mandate? Established in 1996, BPBC is an affiliated agency of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and serves as a professional service organization for the…

Biogen Idec - China You have been here in China for about a year. What were your assumptions about China before you arrived and were things more or less what you thought they would be or were you surprised about the reality on the ground? We conducted extensive research and scouting before setting up…

Finnegan Finnegan is a leader and expert on the topic of intellectual property and it entered Asia in the late 1980s with an office in Tokyo yet China only very recently. Can you provide what the initial impetus was to enter China as well as the operations here since 2008? As…

China Pharmaceutical Enterprises Association First, let me briefly introduce myself. I used to work in Fuxin, a small city in the industrially advanced province of Liaoning which is equivalent to a state in the US. I worked in a company’s pharmaceutical factory for twenty years holding various positions such as technology director, factory head,…