2021 Speakers

Peter Gassner is the visionary behind Veeva, one of the world’s most successful and innovative cloud software companies. He pioneered the industry cloud category when he founded Veeva in 2007 with the belief that vertical cloud software would be the next wave of cloud innovation.

Today, Veeva helps more than 1,000 life sciences companies bring new medicines and treatments to patients faster. With more than 30 years of experience at leading technology companies, Peter has been at the forefront of every major transition in enterprise software, from the mainframe at IBM Silicon Valley Lab, to client-server at PeopleSoft, the cloud at Salesforce, and industry cloud software at Veeva. He was a key visionary force behind three of the industry’s most successful enterprise application platforms: Veeva Vault, the Salesforce Platform, and PeopleTools.

Peter currently serves on the board of directors of Veeva and Zoom. He holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science from Oregon State University.

Peter Guenter is a member of the Executive Board of Merck and CEO of Healthcare. He joined Merck in January, 2021.

Before joining Merck, he served as CEO of Spanish pharma company Almirall from 2017 to 2020. Prior to that, he spent 22 years at Sanofi, serving as a member of the Executive Committee since 2013. In his most recent role at Sanofi, he served as Executive Vice President of the company’s Global Diabetes and Cardiovascular unit. Previous roles with Sanofi included responsibility for Global Commercial Operations, Emerging Markets, as well as various marketing, regional and country management roles.

Peter Guenter was born in 1962 in Ghent, Belgium. He holds a Master’s Degree in Physical Education from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Ghent.

Timmo has the global commercial responsibility for Boehringer Ingelheim’s innovative portfolio across areas like diabetes, oncology, pulmonology, and cardiology. Throughout his more than 20 years in the industry, he has been dedicated to challenging the status quo, especially in the area of innovative customer engagement. Being there for customers is his passion.

I originally trained as a medical doctor in the UK and moved over to the industry 15 years ago. Since joining pharma, I have worked across multiple functions (R&D, medical affairs, commercial) and in multiple geographies having lived in Panama Central America, Singapore Asia and now Copenhagen. I have launched over 15 products in my career and am passionate about getting great products to patients.

I currently work as the EVP Head Region Europe for LEO and am in the process of launching my 16th product in atopic dermatitis. The last couple of years have been challenging but have also driven innovation across multiple areas.

The one thing I wish we could get back to though is more travel as I really miss my Asian food!

As president of Veeva Europe, Chris is responsible for growing the business in the region.
A 30-year veteran of the life sciences industry, Chris started his career at ICI Pharmaceuticals (now AstraZeneca). Chris then joined a start-up called Kinesis, building a team delivering document management solutions for pharmaceutical companies. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, Kinesis ultimately became PwC; Chris made partner with PwC in 2001. Chris went on to run both European and US (West Coast) life sciences business for IBM before leading the IBM global life sciences consulting Business Analytics and Optimization unit. Most recently, Chris was the lead partner for life sciences for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at EY.

Chris holds a bachelor of science degree in information technology from the University of Salford.

Paul Shawah is executive vice president of strategy at Veeva where he focuses on new market and company-wide strategy initiatives. Before Veeva, Paul ran the life sciences industry business at SAP with responsibility for product strategy and business development for SAP solutions globally.

Prior to SAP, Paul ran product marketing and sales for Proscape, the then leader in closed loop marketing (CLM). Paul began his enterprise software career as one of the early product managers for Siebel Pharma helping to create the product that became the on-premise market leader in pharmaceutical CRM.

Paul received his MBA from the Harvard Business School and his bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from Bucknell University.

Alex leads Innovation and Business Excellence at AstraZeneca UK to drive business transformation and thought leadership within our UK Commercial organisation through four Centres of Excellence: Data, Insight and Analytics, Digital and Innovation, Commercial Capability Transformation and Technology Transformation.

Aaron Bean is Veeva’s European Business Consulting lead. He has 19+ years of consulting experience, having previously worked at Accenture and more recently at EY for the past 13 years where he led the UK&I Life Sciences consulting practice. Aaron’s areas of expertise and passion lie in helping Life Sciences companies navigate and deliver commercial and digital transformation and innovation programs to improve their customer experience and deliver better outcomes for patients. At Veeva Business Consulting, Aaron is building a different type of consulting practice that offers strategy through to practical, scalable execution services. What is unique about Veeva Business Consulting is our ability to leverage leading technology platforms, assets, and proprietary data and blend this with a strong business lens to deliver tangible and sustainable value for our customers at speed.

Currently, Mircea Cubillos is the Regional Commercial Strategy Leader – Hematology for the EMEA region.

He began his Johnson & Johnson career 20 years ago in Janssen. Mircea has held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility in both Janssen and Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices, including roles in Global Marketing, Sales, Marketing and BU leadership positions. He has worked in diverse geographies including Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, US, and now EMEA.

Mircea has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia and an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona, USA. He is Romanian/Colombian and lives in Switzerland with his wife and two children.

As general manager of Veeva Link, Kilian is responsible for the strategic direction, growth, and customer success of Veeva’s global Link Platform. He is also responsible for Veeva’s European data business and commercial strategy.

Before joining Veeva, Kilian founded Mederi, a leading provider of global KOL data and services for life sciences companies. Veeva acquired Mederi in 2015 and Weiss joined the Veeva team to build Veeva Link.

In 2016, Kilian was named to the prestigious PharmaVOICE 100, which annually recognizes the top 100 most inspirational and influential people in the life sciences industry.

Thomas Thestrup-Terp is Corporate Vice President at Novo Nordisk heading up the Commercial Excellence & Operations function in HQ, based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has more than 25 years of experience across the pharmaceutical industry, advertising/marketing consultancy, digital marketing & strategy.

Thomas has a proven track record of successful leadership positions within sales, marketing and commercial excellence functions at both global and local levels. He and his team now use that to co-develop and drive an evolution of the Novo Nordisk commercial customer engagement model across multiple channels.

Furthermore, his unit is in collaboration with other key Novo Nordisk units establishing a digital and data-driven platform for more advanced commercial engagement analytics, enhanced commercial execution and operations as well as a world-class digital and modular content supply chain for Novo Nordisk worldwide.

Emma Hyland heads up the European Commercial Content Strategy team, where she leads Veeva’s market strategy and key customer and partner collaborations to advance the life sciences industry in the areas of content strategy and digital transformation.

With 17-years experience in the life sciences industry, Emma spent 10 years in the management team at Zinc Ahead Ltd, delivering compliance software to the global pharmaceutical industry. Emma started her career in healthcare communications with roles at Ketchum and Affiniti developing and executing on award winning campaigns in respiratory and cardiovascular therapy areas. Emma proudly represented Zinc Ahead as a recipient of the Queens Award for Enterprise in 2015 meeting the Queen and Prince Phillip at Buckingham Palace. 

Emma holds a bachelor of science degree in Biochemistry and Biomedical Physics from the University of Nottingham.

Dr. Nick Warwick is the Chief Medical Officer of ADVANZ PHARMA and has over 30 years of experience both in the pharmaceutical industry and as a medical doctor. Dr. Warwick trained as a medical doctor at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in London (now part of the Imperial College group), qualifying in 1986. He spent 10 years in clinical medicine, rotating through several disciplines and primary care before joining the pharmaceutical industry in 1997 as Medical Adviser for Abbott.

In the following 24 years, Dr. Warwick has held senior country level, regional, and global leadership roles within Medical Affairs and Clinical Development (Abbott and Abbvie) and was Chief Medical Officer for Sandoz (2014-2019). In this role, he led a global team of medical, toxicology, and clinical experts delivering specialist input to generic development activities across Sandoz, was responsible for post-marketing clinical activities, strategic medical affairs partnership with key global and regional franchises, and portfolio stewardship.

Dr. Warwick joined ADVANZ PHARMA as Chief Medical Officer in June 2020. He is responsible for setting the medical vision and strategic direction for the Medical Office (comprising medical affairs, patient safety, clinical development, and medical compliance functions), ensuring that ADVANZ PHARMA has the right resources, skills, and capabilities to meet its strategic growth aspirations and base business needs and that the voice of the patient and healthcare professional is fully represented in all company decisions.

Dr. Warwick holds a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, London (MBBS, 1986), and a Diploma from the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists, London (DRCOG, 1992) and a Diploma of Pharmaceutical Medicine from the University of Wales, Cardiff (DPM, 1998). He has been a Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Physicians (FFPM) since 2010.

Louisa is a Practice Manager in the Medical Business Consulting team in Europe. Louisa has over a decade of business consulting experience partnering with life sciences organizations to achieve their strategic priorities and realise competitive differentiation from their technological investments.

Before joining Veeva, Louisa helped establish the new consulting group in EY UK and was a member of Accenture’s European Life Sciences consulting group. Louisa is also a member of the English Bar and has a Masters from Cambridge in Business & Political Science, and a Masters from Glasgow in International Politics.

Head of Customer Excellence & Operations for Biogen Germany, with responsibilities across Customer & Market Insights, Customer Field Excellence and Digital Innovations. I joined Biogen in 2011 and hold various roles in FP&A at Operational and Regional levels before moving to Germany in 2019. My early career started at Procter & Gamble and Logitech. I am a Swiss citizen, have a degree in economics and studied agriculture for two years at the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

Agnès Keltie has worked for Norgine for the last 17 years, with the last 5 as Compliance Manager for the Medical Affairs function. In this role, she focuses primarily on Code of Practice, especially with regard to Copy Approval and Transparency of Transfers of Value and the associated processes and systems to support these activities. To this extent, she is the Business Lead for PromoMats and manages the international processes. Her secondary focus of interest includes continuous improvement, general compliance, training, project work and risk management, as well as bringing the best out of people.
In her early career, she worked for the hospitality and oil and gas industries.

Aleix has been working in the Pharma and Consumer Health Industry for the last 15 years. He joined Veeva in 2020 as a Customer Success Manager for CRM, and his goal is to make sure Veeva Customers get the most of their Veeva Products and to provide industry best practices to ensure long-term successful relationship of our customers with us.

Alexandre is in charge of the BI & Commercial Data department of the International Business Unit of Pierre Fabre Group. Previously, he has been in charge of the implementation of CRM tools such as Veeva CRM for Pierre Fabre. Over the last ten years, he has held different positions in France and Asia for the company. He holds a master’s degree from the Institute of Political Science of Bordeaux in International & European Affairs, as well as in Marketing & Management from Toulouse Business School.

I started my career at Lilly where I spent 15 years, in marketing and sales functions both at affiliate and global level, working across the drug lifecycle and in 7 therapeutic areas. My last position was European Business Unit Head, Cardiovascular. I then co founded a start up in the social software market. After that I joined a world leading professional congress organisor to help with the transition to become a multi channel medical education provider before finally joining Capgemini Invent as a digital transformation consultant for top pharma companies. I joined Veeva early February this year focusing on omnichannel customer experience and digital excellence and France lead.

Integrated Multichannel Marketing and Sales Head in Bayer SpA.
Together with her team, she is responsible to develop the omnichannel culture, mindset and tools in the organization enabling Marketing & Sales functions in increasing the overall effectiveness of go-to-market and moving to the Agile way of working.

Ashley Prip is the Data Governance & Quality Manager for Veeva OpenData Europe. He is based in France and is responsible for defining and implementing the data governance framework, data quality monitoring, and compliance process for Veeva OpenData. Ashley started his data career in 2001 and later got involved with customer reference data in 2006 while at Cegedim. He moved to Veeva in 2014 and has been focused on OpenData product excellence ever since. Ashley received an MBA from the Université Côte d’Azur.

Bastien Mauclaire has been building CRM software for life sciences since 2004. As Director, Product Management CRM, he is responsible for defining the global product direction for field medical teams (MSLs) and pharmacy sales (consumer, Gx). Over the past 10 years, he has developed Veeva CRM product capabilities to align with regional and local business needs. Bastien holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geopolitics and International Relations and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Winthrop University.

Boris Toet is currently the International CRM Lead in Galapagos, leading Veeva CRM and related applications within Galapagos internationally. He has 20+ years of experience in various roles in digital communications, multichannel campaign effectiveness, and website analytics across industries. He most recently worked for MSD and GSK in the life sciences industry. Boris holds a BSc in Hogeschool Inholland / Inholland University of Applied Sciences and Business Administration and Information Technology from the University of Twente. He also has an MSc in Marketing from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Bryce Davis has been the strategy lead for MyVeeva and Engage since February 2021. Prior to joining Veeva, Bryce was with McKinsey & Company in life sciences. Bryce’s training was in biomedical engineering.

Callum Hawes is responsible for leading Veeva’s Global Medical Content Strategy – helping customers to optimize the management of their scientific content, and transform their medical information business processes and technology. Over the last six years he has occupied a number of roles across Veeva’s Medical and Commercial Content business having initially joined from Zinc Ahead, where he was responsible for customer insights.

Carlos is an experienced pharmaceutical executive with close to 24 years tenure in marketing and commercial effectiveness roles. Most of his career has been developed at Almirall HQ in Barcelona, Spain.

Currently, Carlos is the Director for the global Sales Operations Excellence within Almirall HQ. His role includes leading the areas of Commercial Effectiveness, Commercial Training, Customer Engagement, and Market Insights across all Almirall Market Companies.

Among other roles, Carlos was Head of Marketing for Pain & GI within Global Marketing, and before that was Head of Global Market Intelligence at Almirall. Previous to joining Almirall Carlos worked in management consulting mainly with pharmaceutical industry clients.

Carlos is from Barcelona (Spain), although he grew up in Caracas (Venezuela). He holds Systems Engineering and Business Administration degrees, complemented with an MBA from IESE Business School.

Debbie is an inspiring business leader with extensive experience in developing and delivering multi-channel and digital capabilities in the pharmaceutical setting. She has a successful track record of driving transformational change, stakeholder management, change and project management, organisational navigation, and effective influencing skills across all levels.

Elodie Privat is the Sales Analytics & Operations Lead at Novartis Gene Therapies. Looking after competitive intelligence, salesforce effectiveness, market research, commercial effectiveness and analytics, Elodie is committed to driving excellence.

After studying Biochemistry and Business Administration, she has spent more than 13 years in the pharmaceutical industry. From business development to marketing, from small biotech to big pharmas, Elodie has learnt from various positions and responsibilities, which reinforced her strategic thinking. This is with a great enthusiasm that she leads her teams to achieve gold standard objectives.

Emma joined Veeva in August 2019 and is responsible for designing, developing, and delivering Veeva PromoMats capabilities. She is passionate about understanding customers’ needs, making products that drive speed with automation and effectiveness, and putting data in the hands of users for better decisions. Before Veeva, Emma spent over 10 years working in the tech retail industry for global companies designing and building products to help drive repeat sales and build loyalty to the brand. She has a BSc in Natural Sciences from Durham University, UK.

Senior Product Manager focusing on Veeva CRM Events Management.

Esther is an Industrial Engineer, with a large experience in Sales and Technology.
She’s very close to the customers helping them to solve problems and in their Digital Transformation.

Leading global initiatives in order to harmonize the Commercial Excellence Strategy to rapidly and efficiently respond to business needs.

10+ years in the pharma industry, with experience both in local and global CommEx role driving global initiatives to boost a new customer engagement model and bringing innovative solutions to the business.

Dr. Gandolf Finke is founder and managing director of Fosanis. Their cancer patient support platform, Mika, has supported over 60,000 cancer patients in the DACH region and has demonstrated in randomized controlled trials clinical efficacy to reduce clinical endpoints such as psychological burden and fatigue.

Mika combines patient reported outcomes with a personalized content experience powered by proprietary machine learning algorithms and allows for the integration of different stakeholders onto the platform.

Dr. Finke has a background in engineering with a PhD from ETH Zurich and spent over 10 years working on digital health topics across Europe and the US before founding Fosanis.

Graduated in Economics (business administration) at Bocconi University in Milan, he has developed a solid background in Sales & Marketing Transformation at Accenture Management Consulting (>12y – GC&S Industry). He joined Sanofi Italy in 2015, becoming Country Head of Business Operations (member of the board of Directors). He was recently appointed as Global Customer Engagement Lead within the General Medicines Global Franchise (Diabetes & Cardiovascular) at Sanofi HQs.

Prior to joining Veeva Link, Gill has spent the majority of her career working in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, having held roles in launch excellence for oncology in AstraZeneca, brand management and commercial excellence.

She has consulted with many of the top ten global companies including Roche, Novartis, Sanofi and Pfizer.

Heather is an Associate Product Manager for Veeva Network. She joined Veeva 1.5 years ago after graduating from Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada. She is responsible for defining product requirements to build valuable features for customers. Heather has previously held roles in development, design, and product management prior to joining Veeva.

Aug 21 till today: General Manager and Head Human Pharma, Boehringer Ingelheim Austria
Feb 18 to July 21: Managing Director, Boehringer Ingelheim Schweiz
Jan 16 to Jan 18: Member MT Human Pharma, Boehringer Ingelheim Germany
Jul 13 to Dec 15: Corporate Vice President, Boehringer Ingelheim
April 11 to June 13: Head of Corporate Strategy and Development/PMO, Boehringer Ingelheim
2005 to 2011, Project Leader, The Boston Consulting Group
1998 to 2005, CTO and Co-Founder, Graffinity AG / Santhera AG

Huw Jenkins is Veeva’s Director for Commercial Content and has been at Veeva since 2015. Huw has 20 years’ experience consulting and implementing marketing technology solutions. Prior to his time at Veeva, Huw has a background with digital production agencies specialized in content production and localization working across verticals helping global and local marketing teams deliver more effective content to channel at speed.

Ian is VP of Commercial Content for Europe and also manages the global content metrics programme. Having spent 25 years within Pharma companies, he can offer some insights into the strategy needed for digital innovation. Ian is chairing and hosting a number of sessions related to compliance, commercial content, and deep dives into progression towards content innovation.

Isabelle Zablit-Schmitz joined the French Ministry of Health as eHealth Europe & International Director. She is in charge of coordination between France, Europe, and international eHealth matters. Prior to joining the French Ministry of Health in 2020, she had a career in the private sector as eHealth executive, lately as eHealth transformation and strategy consultant and co-founder of the 1st crowdfunding platform dedicated to innovation in eHealth in France.

As Board and Comex Member of Syntec Numérique (now Numeum, the French Federation of Digital companies) in 2015-2021, she chaired the Programme #5000startups (+850 startups) and eHealth Committee, leading industrial lobbying initiatives in ehealth.

Previously, she held several positions with IBM Europe and France in Global Technology Services and Global Consulting Services, as well as with PwC Management Consulting, Tenneco Automotive Europe and LafargeHolcim. She is also in charge of an international risk Management course at Université Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne and serves as IHEST (Institute of Advanced Studies in Science and Technology) board member as well as for an care institutions for the elderly.

Engaged for over 10 years with healthcare companies to drive digital transformation, omnichannel strategy and innovative solutions to deliver a better patients and HCPs experience.

As an Insights Strategist, Jake works closely with customers to identify business needs and develop strategies and solutions to address those needs using Link and a deep understanding of clinical data. Jake’s expertise is in the oncology space, having held positions in industry, supplier/vendor, and non-profit organizations. Jake has over 13 years of experience with roles in business analytics, market research / competitive intelligence, market access, product positioning, and business development strategy.

James Wade has worked in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector since 2010. He has combined medical science and in-depth industry knowledge with a technical data and analytics skill set. Over the last six years he has applied this experience to delivering innovative data and analytics products designed to solve key industry challenges.

Jenna Sherlock-Goudet works within Veeva Europe ‘s commercial strategy team as senior manager for Veeva CRM Events Management. She is responsible for the strategic vision in the region, driving product innovation, and ensuring alignment with local market requirements and customers’ success with the product.

John has around 20 years experience of Field Medical starting as an MSL in the UK, moving to Canada to set up the function then back to Europe to lead the Global Field Medical Excellence teams for Pfizer, Sanofi and presently Astellas. John had the great opportunity to visit, work and learn from colleagues across the globe as they establish and grow the Field Medical role.

He firmly believe that Field Medical plays a key strategic role in working with external medical stakeholders to ensure the appropriate use of our innovative medicines through their life cycle and at the same time deliver the medical strategy and demonstrate medical value back to the organisation.

Julian Upton has 20+ years of writing and editing experience across the finance, healthcare, and pharmaceutical sectors. Since 2009, he has served as a senior editor on Pharmaceutical Executive, managing the European and Technology content, overseeing the online editorial activities and representing the brand at international conferences.

Strategic pharmaceutical leader with over 20 years of experience in product launch, marketing, regulatory advertising, promotion, and compliance. Recent experience leading integration projects & developing a risk-based approach to commercial content review and approval across International. Actively looking for opportunities to streamline, modernize and simplify business processes through strong negotiation, communication, and dedicated leadership, driving teams to success.

Karl is the Commercial Analytics Director EU and joined Veeva in June 2021. Karl is passionate about working with diverse, cross-functional teams to develop Advanced Analytics that solve real world problems. Before joining Veeva Karl led Pharma Analytics at McKinsey’s QuantumBlack for 5 years. Karl holds a Master of Process Engineering from ETH Zurich as well as an MBA from IESE in Barcelona and lives with his wife and daughter in Madrid.

Kate Pain is Associate Director, Digital Strategy and Capabilities, at Astellas Pharma. She embraces digital as a disruptor and is passionate about providing more convenient and seamless solutions for healthcare professionals and patients.

Kate has worked both client and agency side within pharma for 13 years, and in partnership with large management consultancies as well as emerging start-ups. She recognizes the value that different partners bring to the mix and sees shared knowledge as key to innovative change.

Prior to joining the pharmaceutical industry, Kate was a journalist for Time Inc, the Independent and BBC. She studied at the University of Sussex and the University of North Carolina, US, and has an MBA, Distinction.

Kerry’s experience covers 25 years of leadership positions within strategic marketing (Global Marketing, GSK Biologicals, Category Lead Consumer Brands), global marketing operations (Director, Theramex), pharma consultancy (MD Across Health), and agency leadership (MD, Cline Davis Mann, Omnicom, VP Ogilvy Healthworld Asia Pacific).

More recently, with Abbott EURISA, Kerry leads the Regional Digital Engagement function (engaging colleagues with new capabilities, supporting countries with customer engagement, and engagement with change management). He works as part of a wider team on infrastructure deployments, DAM, and future engagement capabilities.

He would describe himself as being very pragmatic in his approach and enjoys finding the shortest, most efficient way to help teams achieve their objectives – while having one eye on future possibilities and new ways of doing things.

Kerry holds a Bachelors in Biochemical Engineering, a Marketing Postgraduate diploma, has spent time as a lecturer at the University of Brussels, and has been Asia Pacific Editor of the Journal of International Pharmaceutical Marketing (Nature Group). He also holds a further qualification in spoken Mandarin Language.

Kevin Andrew has been building software and data platforms since 2012. His academic and professional background is in software engineering and product, having worked across the financial services, online retail and healthcare industries. Over the past five years he has built and launched big data applications within the healthcare sector with a focus on medical expert-related data.

Leonie is a Senior Business Consultant in the European practice where she is working with customers to shape and implement their digital strategy. She Leads the VeevaPulse programme for European Business Consulting, helping customers leverage industry wide data and insight into HCP engagement. Before Veeva, she worked as a Strategy Consultant at EY, where she led global commercial transformation & digital innovation programs across the industry.

I qualified as a pharmacist in 1995 in TCD, Dublin, and in 2021 with an MSc Clin Pharm in Queens in Belfast and spent my career prior to Janssen in oncology-based hospital pharmacy roles and in the community sector. I’ve acted as lead pharmacist in adult & pediatric aseptic suites for oncology & cystic fibrosis, respectively, as well as in ITU, and general medicine as a clinical pharmacist. BUT, I felt I could do more!

I’ve been with Janssen since 2008, starting as an and was part of the launch teams for many of our hematology, oncology, and immunology therapies as an MSL, Medical advisor, EMEA medical director, and now Global medical affairs lead. I’ve worked across hematology and solid tumors to help develop new potentially life-enhancing treatments for patients while learning about new markers of disease to help us bring promising therapies to patients sooner.

I’m passionate about bringing like-minded colleagues with similar passions together to get the job done to help patients have a smoother and better journey than before. We have accomplished a lot to date, but with the digital world of insights at our fingertips, I’m passionate about how Link for TA will help bring together the right minds and passion.

I’ve a personal story in this as I help my younger sister in her journey through stage III ILC and that gives me even more drive to leverage our collective strengths.

As the Global Head of Content Management, my aim is to establish a new content supply chain within the organisation to anticipate the increased demand for content across multiple customer engagement channels, whilst addressing time to market, cost of content creation, ultimately delivering best-in-class customer experience.

Myandrin Naidoo is currently focusing his career on content and its impact on HCP engagement and the efficiency of GSK’s internal teams.

He is passionate about learning and implementing innovative approaches to continuously improve content management and using data and analytics to meet customer needs with more relevant content.

Neal has over 15 years of experience working in the CRM space, and is into his 10th year as a Veevan.

As a Product Manager his role is to learn and understand what customers need to do with Veeva’s products. He then creates and enhances features to meet those needs.

Oskar has worked the last 14 years in various roles within the technology industry. His focus was always on data and analytics in connection with building new data-enabled business. Before joining Veeva in 2021, he spent ten years with Siemens in various leading positions in the healthcare and manufacturing verticals. He holds master degree in engineering and business administration and lives with his family in Nuremberg, Germany.

Pamela brings 10 years of consulting experience for Global system implementations. With experience leading business consulting initiatives, Pamela brings expertise in defining process for global content sharing model, digital asset management, and multichannel content in order to help customers achieve Business objectives.

Patrick is a Principal Product Manager for Veeva Network in Europe. His responsibilities include the transformation of customer requirements into product functionality, as well as the communication of the product roadmap. His focus is on maximizing the value that customers get out of Veeva Network by designing and delivering innovative product features for the European region.

Patrick has extensive expertise in the area of enterprise information management. During his 20+ years in the IT industry, he has occupied various roles in consulting, development, and product management. Prior to joining Veeva, he worked as a senior solution architect at SAP implementing solutions for master data management, data integration, and business intelligence. Patrick started his career as a developer for web-based business applications with a focus on the life science and chemical industry.

Patrick holds a diploma in computer science and economics from the University of Applied Sciences in Essen, Germany.

A pharmaceutical marketing director with international launch experience, Philip Haldar is an expert in the development of strategies and tactics for launching speciality brands. His core competence is leading cross-functional, multicultural teams and breaking down organizational silos to foster a collaborative working environment that enables brand strategy to be linked more strongly to execution.

Philipp is the VP of Commercial Strategy Europe at Veeva and is passionate about life sciences and technology innovation. Before joining Veeva, he founded an EdTech start-up and was a Boston Consulting Group partner advising healthcare customers. Phillip holds a PhD in Biochemistry from the Univerity of Oxford.

As VP of Product Management for Veeva CRM in Europe & LatAm, Povilas is responsible for defining the direction of all Veeva CRM products for the region. He’s committed to ensuring close cooperation with customers and delivering on the promise of speed and innovation.

Povilas has worked in the life sciences software solutions industry since 2004. He has extensive experience in building CRM solutions across wide geographies and various business areas within life sciences.

Ramon is an industrial engineer with a master’s degree in marketing and ten years of experience in Sales & Marketing Operations in an international pharmaceutical environment.

He currently manages Sales Force Effectiveness operations in Ferrer’s affiliates from headquarters, trying to optimize, unify, and succeed within the current pharma changing environment challenges.

With more than 25 years of professional experience in the digital world, Ricard has spent a large part of his career collaborating in the launch and consolidation of emerging companies (start-ups) and the digitization of large companies. Ricard is a constant learner who’s passionate about social networks, emerging companies’ ecosystems, and digital transformation. Former chief connector officer (CCO) at Barcelona Tech City, Ricard has previously worked at BeRepublic, BeAgency, LetsBonus, and Elogia. As Gebro Pharma’s current CDO, Ricard aims to bring digital technology to all areas, especially products and services oriented to patients and the public health system. Gebro Pharma is part of the Austrian pharmaceutical group Gebro PharmaGmbH, which, for more than 70 years, has been working in the research, manufacture, and marketing of pharmaceutical specialties.

Samuela has 14 years of experience in Life Science industry implementing technology solutions for sales and marketing departments.

Starting in 2007 in Accenture as Consultant in Life Science, she supported more than 20 Pharmaceutical and Consumer Health companies in regional and global CRM implementations, transitioning from on premises solution to the latest Veeva cloud.

She also dedicated the last 6 years advisoring and supporting clients implementing multichannel initiatives and embracing the digital transformation, discovering the power of the digital and social media channels in a highly regulatory industry.

Sebastien Noel is Veeva’s Multichannel Strategy Lead in Europe. He is an experienced professional in remote engagement and digital channels. Driven by the recent changes in life sciences, he works with the industry to better serve HCPs and patients.

Sergi Valls is a computer engineer. He’s currently IT Director at HIPRA, a Spanish pharmaceutical company focused on animal health and human health. His experience in IT fields has always been linked to the industry, from skilled technical positions to management positions in the pharmaceutical industry. Sergi does not believe in technology for technology’s sake if it is not adding value. He’s focused on innovative and disruptive projects because these are the ones that transform companies.

Tobi is currently the Head of Align strategy for Europe. He started his career as a scientist in labs at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego. This experience brought him into contact with different life science companies one of them was Astra Zeneca, his first employer and choice in the industry.
Throughout more than eight years of experience in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry as sales rep, in the marketing, as Key Account Manager and as sales manager Tobi fell in love with CRM.

Within the life science industry, he worked with different software and SaaS solutions and was part of the implementation of different Pharma – CRM solutions as user and as project manager.

Umberto is the Head of Commercial Excellence at Viatris. He has 16 years of experience in the pharmaceutical sector, with four years in commercial excellence, two in sales, and the remaining ten years in management consulting.

His areas of expertise in the pharmaceutical sector include portfolio strategy, organizational design (specifically in post-merger integration), and commercial effectiveness (marketing and sales). He has substantial experience in both retail (Off-patent, GX, CH) and hospital portfolios.

Umberto has a degree in Statistical and Economic Sciences from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. He is based in Milan, Italy.

Valerie is the EMEA Director, Data and Analytics Strategy at Janssen (Pharmaceutical Companies of J&J), based in Switzerland. In her role, she’s responsible for shaping and executing, with her team, the EMEA commercial data and analytics strategy to deliver best-in-class advanced analytics solutions for the Janssen EMEA Therapeutical Areas, aiming to improve customer engagement, to support brand performance and to optimize patient experience, across a various range of brands and countries.
Before that, Valerie was a Global Advanced Analytics Lead, Analytics Translator and Strategic Advisor at Bayer Pharmaceuticals. She then pioneered and developed analytics solutions using various machine learning techniques.
Valerie has a strong commercial background; she previously held sales and marketing roles in France in addition to BI responsibilities with traditional Insights and Analytics, from Market Analysis to Sales Force Effectiveness. Valerie was also part of the Bayer Corporate Data Science team in Germany as a Senior Data Scientist for 2.5 years.

Valerie is currently the European Lead for the non-profit organization PMSA (Pharmaceutical Management Science Association), promoting insights and analytics, sharing knowledge and building an expert network in the pharmaceutical industry.

Valerie holds an Engineer degree and MSc in Biology and Life Sciences from AgroParisTech, France.

Vanitha is a part of Novo Nordisk’s global Commercial Excellence & Operations team. She leads the modular content and content insights workstream aimed at delivering omnichannel content at scale with MLR agility and impact. She comes with 15 years of pharma industry experience driving organizational change management, multichannel excellence, and digital transformation.

Victoria is a Principal of our European Business Consulting group. She leads the Customer Experience work covering topics such as Customer Journey Mapping, Go-to-Market Innovation or Customer Excellence. Victoria has over 10 years experience in this space and has worked with most of the top 10 Pharma companies at global, European and market level. Prior to Veeva, Victoria worked for the Life Science Commercial team at EY in Spain, Switzerland and UK, where she is based since 2017.

Walter currently leads the I&I Medical Affairs Academy at Pfizer, which focuses on strategic capability building for colleagues globally, both for today and tomorrow. He is an innovative leader with 27 years of pharmaceutical industry experience, including a unique combination of success across medical & commercial functions.

Walter is an experienced coach, manager and change management professional with proven success working across a complex matrix organization. This includes expertise in leading strategic/operating planning and the delivery of global projects. A skilled communicator with a demonstrated ability to influence without authority and to successfully partner with senior global stakeholders.

As a Product Manager for Veeva CRM in Europe, Zied is responsible for ensuring that Veeva CRM meets the needs of Veeva’s customers in the region.