Executive Profiles

Pair of interviews spotlight the changing dynamics for C-suite business managers in two contrasting life sciences settings-big, established pharma and small, aggressive biotech.

Esperion CFO Rick Bartram highlights his involvement in the young organization's success over the last six years and discusses the company mission means to him.

Travis Mickle, CEO of KemPharm, talks about his company’s use of prodrugs, the business opportunities prodrugs represent, and how prodrugs are helping to improve patient centricity.

A discussion with Pam Cheng, executive vice president of Operations, Technology at AstraZeneca about making the transition into a Fortune 500 C-Suite role and leadership advice for success.

SCYNEXIS CEO, Marco Taglietti, talks about efforts to help advance fungal disease treatments.

In this Q&A, Hugh McTavish, CEO of Squarex and IGF-Oncology, shares with Pharm Exec his perspectives on running both enterprises and the medical products each is developing.

In this Q&A, Seth Lederman, CEO of Tonix Pharmaceuticals, shares key learnings for Tonix’s recent clinical trials and how they are using their expertise to provide relief to unmet patient populations.

Sharon Callahan, this year’s Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association Woman of the Year, has built a career defined by an entrepreneurial drive to advance medical communications-and a commitment to breaking down barriers in the workplace and beyond.

One company’s approach to recruiting and managing talent in an increasingly competitive marketplace.

Madeline Coffin, Senior VP of Human Resources at Alkermes, on why the best mentorship programs are those that are developed in an organic way and customized to each person’s growth and development goals.

Spiro Rombotis, president and CEO of Cyclacel, highlights why targeting cyclin-dependent kinases and the DNA repair pathway could improve the standard of care across multiple oncology indications.

Shawn Singh, CEO of VistaGen Therapeutics’, discusses the company’s pipeline of new generation drug candidates for depression, neuropathic pain, Parkinson’s dyskinesia, social anxiety disorder, and suicidal ideation with potential for convenient, at-home use, rapid-onset therapeutic benefits, and exceptional safety.

Amicus Therapeutics CEO John Crowley, whose biotech journey and quest to cure two of his kids of a rare genetic disease is well chronicled, discusses the growing role of the patient-centered view in company culture-not just in adding “deeper meaning” to drug development, but in building patient advocacy into everyday business practice and strategy.

In this Q&A, Athersys CEO, Gil Van Bokkelen, PhD, discusses his perspective on the recent advancements in stem cell therapies.

A Q&A that discusses challenges of biopharmaceutical entrepreneurship in the oncology indication and the opportunities for successful therapeutic development.

Jean Drouin M.D., CEO of Clarify Health Solutions, gives Pharm Exec his perspective on how biopharmaceutical companies are faring in the use of AI and machine learning

The next Q&A in the HBSHAA series, Career Insights for 2020, Michael Wong interviews Caitlin Hadtke Gagnon from J&J.

Scott Williams, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany’s Vice President, Head of Global Patient Advocacy and Strategic Partnerships, talks about the Embracing Carers initiative’s objectives and how its success is being measured.

Health care companies going public were reported at record levels last year, with pharma and biotech firms leading the way.

An interview with Brian Zietsman, CFO of Enteris, to discuss his strategy and how it is diversifying drug development risk, and increasing valuation.

Dr. Lingshi Tan, a director at DIA, and chairman and CEO of Shanghai-based CRO dMed Company Limited, which he founded after establishing R&D operations for Pfizer in China, discusses the nation's regulatory evolution and opportunities for its government to strengthen collaborations with FDA and other leading global agencies.

Pharm Exec profiles Dr. Xiaobin Wu, an accomplished leader in helming China operations at big pharmas such as Pfizer and Bayer, who believes his recent jump to biotech as GM of China and president of BeiGene will deliver his most lasting legacy.

Kilian Weiss, Veeva Oncology Link General Manager, talks about how the Oncology Link offering has evolved and how it facilitates the process of identifying and approaching key opinion leaders.

A discussion of why healthcare is still an attractive career industry choice and the top career recommendations for the next decade.

Rick Krohn talks to Pharm Exec about the pharma applications of one of tech’s hottest solutions – blockchain.