Tagged with Puerto Rico

pharma Lourdes de Cárdenas, vice president of Stryker’s Latin American operations, explains how she has revamped the Puerto Rican facility to become a more efficient operation and their current vision to continually improve and exceed expectations as a critical supplier of disposables for the company. How do you find the Stryker…

pharma Yanira Torrellas, president of Quality Consulting Group, details how her company helps the industry through remediation and prevention efforts while highlighting the importance of the service provider sector to collectively act in order to promote Puerto Rico to the rest of the world. What is your perspective on the current…

Pharma Rolando Medina, managing director for FedEx Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, highlights the logistics provider’s strong commitment to Puerto Rico’s life science industry through a variety of services and flexible delivery options. You have worked in FedEx for many years. What drove you to the company and what defines your…

Pharma John Fernández van Cleve, Chancellor of UPRM, highlights the institution’s strong expertise in engineering and its application in the pharmaceutical and medical device fields. What are some of UPRM’s main assets? We are very blessed to have the best students in Puerto Rico. UPRM’s admission index is the highest on…

Pharma The Puerto Rico Trade and Export Company (CCE) helps small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) stimulate their business in Puerto Rico and abroad. Frankie Chévere, CCE’s executive director, discusses the successes of the agency since 2013. You came to CCE in 2013; what were the first challenges you had to address…

Pharma The phasing out of fiscal incentives in 2006 has impacted the Puerto Rican economy as well as the life science arena. The president of DDD Group, a company offering fully integrated services for capital project delivery, discusses the new challenges the industry is facing in terms of construction as well…

Pharma Skanska Puerto Rico’s Ramon Navia discusses the challenges the sector has faced in recent years and how Skanska has adapted its services portfolio to better cater to local clients’ needs. Skanska provides world-class construction management services to the life science industry.  What differentiates Skanska from other competitors and makes the group the…

life sciences John Taboas is the president of Biopharma Consulting Services (BCS), a leader in visual inspection and other validation and engineering services. Here he tells PharmaBoardroom how the company is working to position Puerto Rico as a hub for subject matter experts in visual inspection, with a new training facility and inspection…

marketing Ivelisse Casillas, founder of PharMaCon, Inc. talks about the challenges of marketing and advertising pharmaceuticals products in Puerto Rico. She founded the company in 2000 to provide advertising, legal and medical expertise to the sector. What are the main advertising challenges that your clients face with which you can help them? The biggest…

Puerto Rico Medical device manufacturer CMO C-Axis founded its facility in Puerto Rico in 2003. Jared Haley, the affiliate’s general manager, discusses new technologies and the company’s positioning within Puerto Rico’s growing medtech sector as a key service provider to the industry. Looking at C-Axis’s products and services here, what are the…

Puerto Rico Puerto Rico’s healthcare insurance market is the first in Latin America in terms of penetration and sixth in terms of premium volume. Ángela Weyne, Insurance Commissioner of Puerto Rico, discusses how recent amendments to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have been implemented locally, how she is spurring healthy competition among…

pharma Ana Myriam Irizarry, plant manager for LifeScan in Puerto Rico, discusses the competitive nature of the facility’s production of diabetes test strips and the immense talent that Puerto Rico has to offer in terms of manufacturing talent. What makes LifeScan’s test strips so innovative? It is the quality of our…