Tagged with Talent

Denmark Henrik Brabrand, CEO of life science-focused executive search firm Albright Partners A/S, gives his expert insight into how to stand out above the crowd and get noticed by headhunters.   So, you have decided that you may be up for a new challenge. You may not know it yet, but…

Italy Angelini Pharma CEO Pierluigi Antonelli has announced that he is leaving his position with immediate effect, posing the question of what comes next for the leading Italian mid-cap.   Antonelli, profiled by PharmaBoardroom earlier this year, had been in position since 2019 having previously worked his way through the ranks…

South Korea After launching the first Korean COVID-19 vaccine, SKYCovione, SK Bioscience is preparing for its next big milestone, a US subsidiary, with the appointment of two new executives who are already securely anchored in the American life sciences ecosystem: former senior program officer in global health at the Bill & Melinda…

Egypt PhRMA’s Middle East & Africa (MEA) group appoints a ‘champion’ for each of its markets to bring the priorities of that country to the agenda of the MEA executive committee. Egypt’s champion is Amgen and – as the company’s MEA lead Mohammed Nasser describes – there is much to be…

Italy The electoral victory of the centre-right coalition in Italy should see far-right firebrand Giorgia Meloni replace former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi as Prime Minister at the end of October 2022, becoming the first woman to ever hold the role. This spirit of change seems also to have permeated…

Italy Seasoned executive Pierluigi Antonelli went from a career in big pharma to Angelini Pharma, a midsized Italian company that has been undergoing major transformation. He shares the motivation behind the move and the main components of the company’s transformational journey.   Rather than continue on the perhaps easier path he…

Americas Two Big Pharma SVPs with responsibility for the entirety of Latin America weigh in on the management challenges inherent in LatAm and what they look for when appointing country managers in their region.   LatAm’s regional pharma market of USD 98 billion looks set to be the fastest growing in…

Singapore Japanese giant Takeda has a new Head for APAC; Indian national Dr Mahender Nayak, previously the firm’s India, CIS, Middle East, Turkey & Africa (ICMEA) lead. Nayak will relocate to Singapore, where he has spent almost half of his 20-year pharma career, and take on responsibility for the vast Asia-Pacific…

GCC Talent and manpower are crucial elements in healthcare transformation, from trained clinicians to nurses, technical experts, and managers, but the GCC’s particularities create unique challenges in this regard. A full 50 percent of the region’s inhabitants are expatriates, a number that rises to 81 percent and 92 percent in Abu…

Global The Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation (CDMO) industry has boomed in recent years, with Big Pharma increasingly focusing on its core business of R&D and outsourcing other elements of the supply chain, including manufacturing, to third-party CDMOs. Additionally, the global proliferation of biotechs – most of which lack the in-house…

China Writing in the April edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, the DIA China Leadership and Career Community look at the Chinese pharmaceutical innovation ecosystem’s R&D talent gap and the China Pharmaceutical R&D Talent Innovation Research Project that was launched to address it.   Over the past five years, China’s pharmaceutical innovation industry…

Italy Luca Benatti, one of Italian biotech’s most notable entrepreneurs, outlines some of the key challenges of starting a biotech company in Europe, highlights how these barriers can be overcome, and gives some of the key lessons he has learned in his entrepreneurial journey.   Benatti currently serves as CEO and…