Executive Profiles

After two decades at the forefront of hematology and oncology drug development, AbbVie’s vice president and global head of oncology clinical development, Mohamed Zaki, MD, PhD, is more hopeful than ever about recent advances in the space.

Moderna Chief Medical Officer Paul Burton looks to build on culture of innovation and speed to advance COVID-19 vaccine and develop new therapies based on its novel mRNA platform, spreading hope to patients around the world.

Chris Doerr, Senior Vice President, Global Generic Sourcing, AmerisourceBergen, talks about the importance of companies taking an honest view of their current-state capabilities when embarking on the digital transformation journey.

Sajith Wickramasekara, co-founder and CEO of Benchling, talks about closing the gap between research and early-stage development to accelerate scientific breakthroughs in biopharma.

Christian Wieszner, CSL Behring UK’s new General Manager, talks about his role and his vision for the company’s UK operation going forward.

Carolynn Johnson talks about changing the diversity, equity and includsion trends among the most progressive companies.

Rafael Pharmaceuticals President and CEO Sanjeev Luther shares insights about the strategy he used to shepherd the company’s main compound, devimistat, from near-failure into Phase III trials.

Imvax CEO John Furey taps into tried-and-true powers of hope and clarity as he moves the clinical stage biotech from single program to platform company.

Open Orphan CEO Cathal Friel talks to Pharm Exec about how the company is distinctive from traditional CROs and its role in the UK’s COVID-19 human challenge study.

aTyr Pharma’s Dr. Sanjay S. Shukla talks about how his background in biostatistics, informatics and medicine is helping him and his team of researchers and scientists develop meaningful new medicines in a novel area of immunobiology, by looking at pathways where other drugs may have failed.

Lorna Meldrum, Vice President, Commercial Operations, International Markets & Pandemic at Seqirus, talks about the challenges of the influenza vaccine market and how COVID-19 has highlighted that preventing ’flu is crucial for public health.

Dr. Shankar Musunuri talks about his 25 years’ experience in biotech about his company Ocugen’s latest mission to develop, manufacture, and commercialize Bharat Biotech’s COVID-19 vaccine, COVAXIN, in the North American market.

Teva CEO Kåre Schultz talks about his long industry experience tackling major strategic and operational challenges, and how he is progressing on his current mission to turn around Teva’s fortunes.

Landmark Bio CEO Ran Zheng talks about the value of collaborating with best-in-class partners.

Mark Gergen, Poseida Therapeutics’ President and Chief Business Officer, outlines his company’s commitment to make single-treatment cures a reality.

David Jimenez, President of Janssen Pulmonary Hypertension, talks about how he is delivering on the company’s mission to support earlier diagnosis of people with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).

With a background in pharma and biotech, ImmunoGen president and CEO Mark Enyedy discusses his dedication to oncology and the lessons he’s learned along the way.

Dr. Randall N. Hyer, SVP Global Medical Affairs at Moderna, talks about the strategies that have helped the company grow from startup to multi-billion-dollar firm in a decade.

Ester Banque, senior vice president and head of Intercontinental Commercial at Bristol Myers Squibb, talks purpose and perseverance—both in her own career journey and her group’s mission to topple barriers to drug access in diverse and hard-to-reach regions.

Milan Kalawadia, Senior Vice President, Head of US Commercial Operations at Dr. Reddy‘s, talks about his 15+ years with the India-headquartered company, maintaining a leading position in the generics industry, and the challenges of doing business during the pandemic.

Insights from AmerisourceBergen EVP and Chief Strategy Officer, Leslie Donato.

GSK‘s President of US Pharmaceuticals, Maya Martinez-Davis, outlines her organization’s evolving diversity and inclusion commitments.

Marcelo Bigal, M.D, Ph.D, President and CEO of Ventus Therapeutics, talks about how technological innovation in the field of small molecule drug development has created new opportunities for pursuing undruggable targets, building on the well-established strengths of small molecule medicines.

Newly appointed General Manager (UK) at Global Blood Therapeutics (GBT), Nigel Nicholls talks about the company’s vision for Europe and the UK and the health inequity faced by the sickle cell disease community.

Harvard Business School Professor Joseph B. Fuller talks about the future prospects for pharma sales forces as they face more restrictions on accessing their target physicians and looming concerns of automation.