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Liomont The last time we interviewed you was in 2008. Please can you tell our readers a little bit more about Liomont’s growth drivers and changes over these last four years? There has been a slowdown in Mexico in terms of market growth since 2008. There has been a lot of…

Randall Laboratories When we saw you in 2008 we had read a little bit about the major milestones in the company, how your grandfather came to Mexico in the 1950s and how you used to come to work in the company every day after high school when you were a teenager. Randall…

Stendhal Mexico Please can you tell our readers a little bit more about the history of Stendhal, and its major milestones along the way since its takeover in 1997? Stendhal is a privately owned company that has presence throughout LatinAmerica. It was bought by its current owners in 1997 and by 2003…

Novartis Farmaceutica S.A. de C.V. (Mexico) Carlos Garcia said in December 2009 that 6-8% of Novartis’ annual revenue comes from Latin America, and that the area is “one of the main growth engines for the company”. Can you tell us how Novartis Mexico fits in with that growth strategy? Mexico is the second biggest market in…

Agendia Agendia has experienced remarkable growth in the seven years since you founded the company. In 2009 you expanded the company’s Amsterdam facilities and, in 2010, you doubled the size of its U.S. facilities. Why this drastic expansion, especially over the last two years? Agendia continues to grow at a rapid…

Alliance Healthcare Russia You took over this organization just three months ago, having previously headed businesses in industries as diverse as retail, food, and automobiles. What drew you to Alliance Healthcare Russia? Do you find similarities between this job and your previous positions? When I decided to leave my former position, I decided…

Apposite Capital LLP As a partner at Apposite since the company was created in 2006, what was the founding vision of the company and what do you consider have been its major milestones in the last five years? Apposite was conceived as a new venture capital (VC)/ Private equity (PE) fund that would…

Apitope Apitope’s research and success is based on its High Speed Technology Platform that uses soluble peptides as vehicles to regulate immune responses in patients. What is the history behind this technology and how does it differ from other peptide-based research? Apitope was founded on a platform technology to discover peptides…

Roche Thailand Dr Ammelburg, you have been working for Roche for more than 25 years now, time essentially spent between your home country Germany and Thailand. After more than 10 years spent here, what would you consider to be the main specificities of the Thai Pharma industry? The Thai market is not…

Zydus Group You have very successfully executed a vision that you have had for the company since it was a 200 Rs Cr turnover, India-focused enterprise 15 years ago. You have had 18-fold growth since then, and you are set to achieve 1Bn USD in turnover for the first time this March!…

Association of the Russian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (ARPM) The ARPM was founded in 2002, and you were its director from 2002-2004, before leaving for a post at the Roszdravnadzor. You’ve since rejoined as director since 2007. The organization was originally founded as a unifying force amongst Russian national manufacturers, and has now grown to encompass several foreign members.…

Association of International Pharmaceutical Manufactures (AIPM) When Focus Reports prepared a report on the French pharmaceutical industry in 2009/10, we found that the head of the main multinational pharmaceutical association had taken a career path quite similar to yours: he had been an administrator and head of the regulatory authority; he subsequently left the administration and…