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Ireland Frederic Secail, General Manager of Servier’s second strategic and international production facility within Servier Industry, located in Arklow, Ireland, outlines his ambitious transformation program, Arklow 2020, to anticipate and prepare the site for the future. You have been GM of Servier’s Arklow facility since 2013. What was the mandate given…

Ireland Shane Ryan, in his first month as Country Lead for Takeda Products Ireland, speaks about his mandate to position Takeda as the leader in IBD and oncology with exciting new product launches, the evolving pharmaceutical and healthcare landscape in Ireland, and the drive to help patients that motivates him every…

Mexico Alan Smithers, CEO at IFA Celtics, highlights the obesity as a national healthcare challenge and explains the company’s strategy to enlarge its capabilities to cope with the increasing needs of the patients’ and physicians’ communities. Could you please introduce yourself to our international as well as the main activities and…

Switzerland Switzerland may have a world class healthcare system, but small adjustments are needed to ensure incentives for payer and providers are properly aligned with the patient’s ultimate quality and value of care. Dr. Cassis, could you please introduce yourself, with reference to your experience and current responsibilities in the realm…

Luxembourg Novartis’ newest Head for the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg provides a fascinating insight into the Luxembourg market and reveals how this small nation has found itself in pole position for future pharmaceutical innovation. After over a decade with GSK, you joined Novartis one and half years ago. What made you join…

Slovakia The basics on the country of Slovakia: name, date of independence, geography, population, currency, language, and capital. Slovakia is well integrated into the international community, with membership of the majority of large transnational institutions. Slovakia is located at the heart of Europe, within a short flight of almost every other…

Switzerland With over 50 years of history in Switzerland, Zambon operates in Canton Ticino one of Zambon’s two major global production centers. Swiss Market  Manager Giampiero Roncoroni discusses the unique features of the Swiss market, and how a particular focus on the OTC/OTX market has been a key factor of success…

Singapore Takeda’s President of Emerging Markets Business Unit, Giles Platford, speaks about his assignments across various global markets, his leadership philosophy, as well as the impressive international growth of the company.   I feel a strong sense of responsibility and obligation working for a company that has potentially life-saving and life-transforming…

Singapore Eli Lilly and Company General Manager of South ASEAN, Dr. Faiz Ansari speaks about the expanded scope of his role,  Lilly’s pipeline, and the approach that Lilly has taken to support healthcare delivery and improve patients‘ access to treatment and to support programs in a region that is so inherently…

Singapore In an exclusive interview with Alan Ong, Executive Vice President of Asia Pacific and Global Head of Medical Devices and Diagnostics at INC Research, he highlights the current trends facing CROs in the region and the increasing capabilities and footprint of INC Research in Singapore. As the Executive Vice President…

Singapore In an interview with Takeda’s President of Emerging Markets Business Unit, Giles Platford portrays a vitalized focus on emerging markets and explains why those countries are positioned as one of three key growth drivers for the company. With Takeda’s recently unveiled Access-to-Medicines (AtM) strategy, he also characterizes the role of…

Singapore Cerner’s managing director of Southeast Asia, Rebecca LaNasa highlights the key importance that Singapore—as the company’s third office outside the U.S.—serves in implementing and piloting new forms of health care information technology (HIT), while elaborating on how the company’s comprehensive portfolio of solutions can actually help both developed and developing…