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GSK In a pharmaceutical environment faced with stiffening regulatory regimes, and where mergers and acquisitions become more commonplace, GSK’s diversifications and growth model have long come into question. Historically, Big Pharma would work as a one-stop-shop for medicine solutions covering all therapeutic areas, and over the years, companies opened up new…

Portugal Hailing from the Dominican Republic, Silvia Guichardo brings a fresh perspective as well as both US and Iberian experience to GSK Portugal. Six months into her role as general manager, Guichardo highlights GSK’s historic commitment to Portuguese patients, new therapeutic areas for 2019, and the unsung importance of leading a…

India A successful commercial leader, Annaswamy Vaidheesh, president of OPPI, VP South Asia and managing director at GSK India, talks about the tremendous work that the local affiliate is doing in the country in making innovative products available to patients and their recent GBP 100 million investment in manufacturing. Can you…

Serbia Marija Krstic, general manager of GSK Serbia and Montenegro, discusses how the various positions she has undertaken during her 13-year career at GSK help inform her current role, the initiatives that GSK Serbia is involved in to increase access to innovative medicines for Serbian patients, and her push to ensure…

Brazil Alexei Kolchin, general manager of GSK Brazil, discusses adapting to Brazil, having previously held the equivalent role in Russia, the Brazilian affiliate’s contribution to GSK’s global growth, and its embrace of digitally disruptive technologies. Before being appointed GM of GSK in Brazil, you were the GM for GSK Russia, so…

Brazil Cesar Rengifo, senior vice president and area director Emerging Markets West at GSK, the fastest growing multinational company in both Brazil and Latin America, discusses the perfect match between GSK’s product portfolio and the region’s healthcare needs as well as the opportunities it entails for the company and Latin America’s…

Bulgaria Nikolaos Xydias, general manager at GSK Bulgaria, explains the commitment of GSK to cutting-edge medicines and vaccines targeting respiratory diseases and HIV and highlights the reasons why pharmaceutical multinationals should put Bulgaria on their business map. This is your first time as a country manager. How did you prepare yourself…

Colombia Adriana Forero, General Manager of GSK Colombia, speaks about their efforts to remain at the forefront of the healthcare industry, while keeping their focus on increasing access, innovation and focus on the patient in order to become a strategic partner for the Government and the Colombian healthcare system Ms. Forero,…

Indonesia Omar Luqmaan Harris, GM at GSK Indonesia, discusses the commitment of the Indonesian affiliate to the global organization’s mission, as well as their focus on being the best place to work, with the highest patient focus, and the best customer engagement. Mr. Harris, what have been your main areas of…

Philippines The Top 10 pharmaceutical companies in the Philippines by revenue. Unilab leads the way, followed by Pfizer and Abbot.

London Among the assorted pharma CEOs and KOLs gathered at the recent Financial Times Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Conference in London, debate raged on the pros and cons of a pure play strategy, focusing on a few key therapeutic areas, compared to a more diversified approach. If the 1990s and early 2000s, were all…

Singapore In an exclusive interview with Richard Saynor at GSK, he outlines the growth of the CEP portfolio in emerging markets and highlights the opportunities and challenges in the region, as well as the strategic benefits of operating in Singapore.   Even though our key medicines have many generic competitors, their…