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Pharma DB Schenker’s Bart Coenen (BC) and Vincent Coolen (VC) explain the company’s Vision 2020 and talk about the benefits for pharma companies of outsourcing their supply chain. In 2013, DB Schenker announced the company’s Vision 2020. Can you please elaborate on this vision? BC: This strategy is about being an eco-pioneer,…

Pharma With a large and growing population, and significant domestic health needs, Lilly Egypt general manager Ozkan Ozdogan sees many opportunities for various stakeholders to serve patients, and is focusing on improving healthcare practitioners’ ability to better train diabetes patients to manage their condition.    After 14 years with Lilly Turkey in…

Pharma The head of KPMG’s life science division in Africa, Joubert Krugel, discusses the current state of South Africa’s healthcare system, the imminent trends taking place, and how the business community can improve the nature of collaboration with public stakeholders to increase widespread access to quality care in the country. How would…

Pharma Floris Van Haselen, Business Development Director Europe for O&M Movianto, one of the rare logistics companies to be fully specialized and to only operate in the healthcare sector, explains how the company wants to help its customers bring their products closer to the “Point of Care” thanks to its flexibility and expertise. With…

Pharma Christophe Lala, general manager of Western Europe at GE Healthcare, reveals how today the challenge is to ensure that all patients in France have access to the same medical pathway; how the future of medicine lies in early diagnosis and individually tailored treatments, what is known as personalized medicine; and…

Pharma Servier Egypt’s recently arrived general manager shares his first impressions and assessments of the Egyptian business environment, and discusses the potential he sees for Servier Egypt to build upon its already strong position in the market. After three months in Egypt, what is your initial assessment of the country? Upon…

Pharma Emmanuelle Ribot-Mariotte, general manager of Alfa Wassermann Pharma France, reveals how over the past year the company has been working hard on a new innovative treatment for hepatic encephalopathy, Rifaximin-alpha 500, and why their strategy is to focus on gastro-intestinal diseases, a field which has always been at the heart…

Pharma Peter Schoevers, CEO and co-founder of Julius Clinical, explains how this innovative and thriving organization allies the academic strength of an ARO with the business-oriented leadership of a CRO. Julius Clinical aims to become the partner of choice for the pharmaceutical industry by strengthening clinical trial credibility, enhancing its quality…

Pharma OrganoPharma’s founder and chairman Dr. Mowfak Sakr explains how he founded his company to try and provide the 40 million people in Egypt who lack healthcare insurance of any kind with safe, effective, and affordable medicines, and shares his vision for expanding the company internationally. Dr. Sakr, what is OrganoPharma…

Pharma The MD of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Italy takes stock of the prevailing business winds between the two countries as both economies complete their emergence from the shadow of the global financial crisis. Citing the important contribution of entities such as Banca Farmafactoring in providing liquidity to pharmaceutical and…

Pharma Massimo Visentin, Country Leader for Pfizer Italy, discusses the company’s remarkable success in 2015, his hopes and ambitions for the new year, and the need of the industry and Pfizer specifically to engage the government in the development of a more sustainable healthcare system. To start off, we are approaching…

Pharma Finding success in the shadows of Big Pharma and large research facilities, CleveXel serves as a bridge in the industry, specializing on selecting promising molecules for investment, and developing them for the CNS market, and especially Parkinson disease. Christian Bloy shares his entrepreneurial spirit and the vision for CleveXel, a…