Carlo de Notaristefani has over 30 years of extensive technical, operational, manufacturing and P&L experience. He has served as Chief Executive Officer & President of Global Operations at Teva Pharmaceuticals since August 2012, leading the largest and most complex supply organization in the industry with unrivaled capabilities across the full spectrum of technologies. Teva Global Operations currently includes 24,000 employees in 120 markets, 25 countries and 64 sites. 

Prior to joining Teva, from 2004 to 2011, Carlo was a member of the senior management team at Bristol-Myers Squibb, where he served as President, Technical Operations & Global Support Functions, with responsibility for global supply chain operations, quality and compliance, procurement and information technology. During his tenure at BMS, Carlo led the transformation of the global supply network into a lean operation, and introduced the biologics manufacturing capabilities critical to the company’s strategy and growth.  

Before joining Bristol-Myers Squibb, he held several senior positions of increasing responsibility in the areas of global operations and supply chain management with Aventis, Hoechst Marion Roussell and Marion Merrell Dow. 

Carlo earned a doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the University of Naples in Italy.

Didier is globally responsible for the end-to-end supply chain for Pharma solids at Sanofi. Through his expertise in strategic and operational supply chain in a multi-national and multi-cultural environment for FMCG / cosmetics companies in various countries and experiences in procurement, manufacturing, demand & supply planning, logistics, distribution, master data and information systems (ERP-APS), Didier leads a highly successful end-to-end strategy.

Alessandro is responsible for the entire global supply chain planning, physical distribution, artwork management, logistics, customer service and supply networking globally for Merck Group. With more than 20 years in the FMCG industry, Alessandro brings a unique insight in how pharma can learn from other industries to drive change and innovation in pharma supply chain strategies

Simon is directly accountable for all demand planning and in-market supply chain and SOP activities, market logistics and distribution. Simon leads his team in evolving supply chain policies and supply chain synergies across Europe, Middle East and Africa – with the ultimate goal to ensure excellent customer service, and deliver maximum value.

Stephan leads BI’s global supply chain community. Since he joined Boehringer Ingelheim over 15 years ago he worked both in Corporate and operative roles where he has pioneered strategic initiatives as well as implemented executional improvements best placing him to discuss and share his experience on implementing successful mid to long term capacity planning.

Jørn coordinates all supply launch activities for Lundbeck's newly approved products running cross functional projects involving 100+ people. Recently Jørn has driven projects of logistical setups, production planning, portfolio optimization, and is the supply contact person for major accounts.

Ludovic is directly responsible for delivering UCB’s products globally, with a focus on outstanding customer service through developing customer relationships. Ludovic’s highly focused strategy is to deliver value for patients through efficiency, innovation, agility and speed.

Jan is oversees the overall supply chain management within the European Technology division of Astellas, including planning and inventory management, logistics and distribution, contract manufacturing supplies, procurement of direct materials, artwork and master data management. Jan has also developed highly successful strategies in developing new manufacturing facilities, ERP (SAP) implementations, merger and plant divestments, outsourcing of manufacturing activities and contract manufacturing in Russia.

Els is accountable for new product introduction, product life cycle management and product supply planning for the EEMEA region. In her role, Els is currently investigating how differentiation between customer requirements can help optimise supply chain for the customer, with a focus on how the market is built to define her supply chain strategies.

Richard is responsible for MSD's supply allocation system in Europe, the first such system in pharma. Richard is viewed as a leading pioneer in the ‘Route to Customer’ initiative, where he successfully completed projects to create efficiencies in the end-to-end supply chain. Richard has also identified the important of partnering with wholesalers to develop revenue-enhancing services capitalizing on the strengths of wholesalers in the trade channel.

Arie is responsible for advancing the Planning Maturity, within Global Surgery, the second largest segment within J&J. Arie focuses on establishing benchmark planning processes, strategy development and driving innovation, leading his global team across 12 locations worldwide, and Under his remit, highly successfully strategies and processes have been implemented to translate customer needs into innovative Supply Chain Capabilities.

Richard is responsible for developing and executing a complex supply chain across Europe, Middle East and Africa for all AstraZeneca products, as well as chairing his company’s Global Distribution Network. The AZ distribution annual budget is in excess of $250m. Richard is currently working with colleagues to build a distribution strategy that will be future-proof for the next 5-10 years, taking into consideration segmentation and various go-to-market models. A key success factor includes bringing the commercial and operations functions closer together and working closely with key service providers.

Piero is directly responsible for managing the supply chain for Sandoz Germany and Hexal AG.  Piero also  has extensive experience in establishing and optimizing the supply chain for Sandoz in the Middle East & Africa region where his focused strategy was not just about increasing Sandoz’s footprint in the region, but also about supporting a profitable and sustainable growth of business there.  He is also a member of the German Sandoz Executive Committee.

Barbara is responsible for the supply of an orphan drug to patients affected by a rare disease. She develops and implements tailored distribution solutions for pre-licence and regular commercial sales in Europe and ROW and manages all supply related activities – in collaboration with a network of contract manufacturing and distribution services providers. Barbara harnesses almost thirty years of work experience at Roche and small specialty pharma companies.

Corina‘s key areas of responsibility are Change and Talent Management. Recently she has pioneered an extremely successful HR Transformation in a multinational global environment – ensuring global requirements were successfully translated into local needs. Corina has a wealth of knowledge in supply chain talent development, best placing her to lead a session on nurturing rising stars.

Val is directly responsible for the global cross-border logistics of Allergan, one of the largest buyer of pharmafreight in the world operating in an extreme complex global Supply Chain. He furthermore manages the Supply Chain Execution of its PTC (Principal Trading companies in Malta). Val entered the Pharmaworld 2012 and has transformed the Allergan logistics in to a state of the Art setup with an unprecedented 30% cost reduction in 4 years using best in class Control Tower Solution, recognized widely within the industry and media.

Eduardo leads global teams in defining and implementing strategy for global launches and commercial supply in different therapeutic areas. In his role, Eduardo is a key representative of Manufacturing and Supply Chain in different programs, from development to commercialization, and focuses on integrating manufacturing and supply chain strategy with product’s strategy, ensuring speed to market and maximum revenue and profitability.

Gilead recently started on an exciting journey to develop and integrate supply chain capabilities to improve visibility and performance. Early focus was on process development, followed by software selection. Niall has fulfilled various Manufacturing and Supply Chain roles in Life Sciences over the past 20 years, with a particular focus on Process Improvement and Site Start-up. Niall joined Gilead in 2008 has been the Global ‘Plan to Make’ business lead since 2011. He reports into Global Supply Chain and is leading Gilead’s multi-year Integrated Supply Chain Program.

Manfred is directly responsible for orchestrating and overseeing the technical and supply chain aspects of partner companies of Roche worldwide from concept through to establishment of the relationship, and relationship management to phase out. Within his role, Manfred and his team manage the 30+ licensee partnerships, most of them in Emerging Markets, and 10+ product divestment partners worldwide. Manfred has worked for more than 30 years in Roche Global technical Operations and gained experience in managing site operations, overseeing the technical integration of acquired businesses as well as business and brand divestitures and most recently evaluating and shaping partner relationships , where his vast experience in negotiating, establishing and managing the technical side of partner relationships ensures a smooth and efficient collaboration so that quality product supply and achievement of business results are ensured.

Karine’s main goal through her role is to develop global supply chain operations, standardise practices and develop visual management, dashboards and SOPs. Karine has identified the importance of focusing on improving service and financial inefficiencies in infrastructure and transport (OS, flows Optimization, Distribution opportunities) and applies this in Network Optimisation studies in EMEA, LATAM and APAC. Karine is also involved in the Gambro integration team to ensure identified optimization projects are properly scoped and executed.

"The Hurt Locker's real-life star, Major Chris Hunter QGM had 'the world's most dangerous job, in the world's most dangerous place'. As the British Army's most experienced counter-terrorist bomb disposal specialist in Iraq, he risked his life on a daily basis. So effective was he at defusing the crude, unstable but deadly devices, that terrorists on both sides of the conflict, Sunnis and Shi'ites, put a price on Chris' head. Quite apart from the danger of defusing the bombs, just getting to them was a risk, as Chris was a prime target for snipers. Chris joined the British Army as part of the Royal Logistic Corps (RLC) at sixteen, where he encountered the perceived stigma and undervaluation of the logistics function. During his career he deployed to a number of operational theatres, including The Balkans, Northern Ireland, Colombia, Afghanistan and Iraq, and for his actions during his Iraq tour, he was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal. Throughout his dangerous and dramatic military career, Chris has encountered situations where a highly valued and effective logistical operation could have saved him from extreme personal danger and even turned around the entire execution and perhaps the final result of some of history’s most well-known military operations. Chris rounded off his military career as a senior intelligence analyst at the Ministry of Defence. At the time of the London suicide bombings, he was seconded to COBRA, the Cabinet Office's emergency response committee. Chris illustrates a gruelling journey of bravery, strength, leadership and skill where every decision made during his time in Iraq could have been his last."

Ulrich is accountable for Boehringer Ingelheim’s global end-to-end Supply Chain from suppliers to patients along the entire product lifecycle and the entire value chain by driving design, governance and day-to-day operation.

Barbara is responsible for product Launches for the entire Celgene product portfolio for all International Markets. This means accountability for successful, timely completion of all operational activities for launches of commercial products to new markets including accountability for implementing changes/variations to in-market products, for the same portfolio and geographic scope. Barbara also leads and is developing the Product Lifecycle concept for Celgene’s products worldwide and supply chain process improvement initiatives.

Markus Hasselblatt currently manages divestment and licensing partnerships on behalf of Roche. In this role he is accountable for all operations aspects of programs he manages. Makrus has identifies strategies for success and plans, executes, and delivers technically complex projects and products on schedule throughout the transactions, which are of high financial significance for the involved parties.

Dean leads the logistics procurement, where he is currently focusing on Novo Nordisk’s global distribution strategy. Whilst defining the procurement strategy for the logistics category, his focus is not just about cost-control, it is also about enabling best practice country by country to ensure a fully integrated, end-to-end network.

Robert-Jan (RJ) is Director Supply Chain at AMGEN, heading Global Logistics. His responsibilities include global processes and programs in warehousing, distribution, transportation, and cold chain across Amgen’s network of manufacturing and distribution sites, as well as a number of contracted parties. He is also the Deliver Global Network Leader, connecting all logistics leads globally across the company to drive compliance, quality, performance, consistency, and foster learning.

Niels leads the start-up of the Distribution Category in Novo Nordisk. He is directly responsible for developing and establishing collaboration with regions and sales affiliates pursuing contract and quality standards, while optimizing the downstream supply chain activities. In his role, Niels prioritises managing and developing distribution solutions and procurement activities in a global context with many stakeholders.

"Patrycja leads the distribution network optimization program for the EUCAN/NEMEA regions, where she has implemented a highly successful Principal Structure Operating model for network design. Recently she has led her team in the new launch of the Global Specialty Cold Chain portfolio, with a focus on distribution optimization."

Kim leads his team of 80 in heading up Pfizer’s global European logistics centre, where he focuses on continuous improvement and business excellence, including Six Sigma and LEAN tools. Through these tools and his strategies, Kim has achieved a 3 fold output increase and 75% lead time reduction in process times.

Ulrich is head of Global Operational Excellence with Merck’s Biopharma operations. He joined from Merck in January 2015 from Porsche Consulting’s Pharmaceuticals, Biotech and Medical Device Practice. Ulrich also held management positions with Boehringer Ingelheim and Camelot Management Consultants. 

He started his career 1998 as pharmaceutical engineer at the Freiburg site of Warner Lambert implementing lean manufacturing to packaging shop. 

Ulrich holds a diploma degree in pharmaceutical engineering and an MBA of the European School of Business.

Rajesh manages complex global controlled-environment logistic networks where he specializes in integrating transport operations, import and export compliance, cold chain management, and transport validation activities in a synchronized and mutually supportable strategic approach. Rajesh heads up the export-import division and has a proven track record in all areas of EXIM business.

Simon owns the global process for Sales & Operations Planning across the Pharmaceutical, Consumer Healthcare and Vaccines businesses. In his role, Simon uses his extensive experience of Integrated Business Planning, Supply Chain Management, Strategic Planning, Cost Reduction and Lean Six Sigma implementations from across multiple sectors to implement a highly successful and integrated strategy.

Esra is leads the supply chain operations team across the Middle East and Turkey, where she drives the supply chain team and strategy across this region. Esra is also responsible for liaising with affiliate offices across 155 countries, and provides alignment between executive management and these business areas, including managing key operational issues.

Rene has a chair in the management team of AbbVie Logistics. In this role Rene spearheads the strategy and implementation of the various distribution models across EMEA. In his role, Rene is accountable for managing the strategic relationship with 3PL providers and compliance activities while managing a large team of professional logistics responsible for the operation. He also drives optimum performance through defining highly successful metrics and performance targets.

Lorenzo is accountable for managing the supply chain for Baxter’s oncology products. He is directly responsible for Planning and Inventory Deployment, Customer Service Baxter products, Purchasing & Supplier Management, Warehouse and Distribution and Partmaster and Data Management.

Gianpiero leads supply chain for the fill and finish manufacturing operations site, where he has direct responsibility for logistics, purchasing, production planning and sales & distribution. He ensures efficient site management processes through developing highly successful purchasing and procurement processes, and developing, recruiting for and leading an effective team.

In his role, Enrico focuses on boosting and turning around performance in supply chain and operations. With his experience of over more than 15 years in the FMCG industry (globally – including Europe, US/Mexico, Asia & Emerging Markets) Enrico is very well placed to share his experience on how to become truly customer centric.

Anja is accountable for Norgine’s global distribution, where she is directly responsible for distribution operations, supplier relationship management and the procurement of distribution, transportation and warehousing services. Whilst defining an optimised distribution strategy, Anja also ensures a customer-first experience.

Emre is directly responsible for the management of supply chain activities in the Turkey & Middle East and Africa regions, serving as a single point of contact for supply chain activities in the region. Emre oversees the planning and coordination of new product launches in the region, advising and supporting regional partners and distributors, and the execution of regional supply chain strategies and supporting commercial activities in line with regional and global strategies.

Eduardo leads the global supply chain including manufacturing and supply chain for AstraZeneca’s parenteral and pen devices. Within his role, Eduardo has identified the importance of working closely with both internal and external manufacturing teams to ensure an efficient end-to-end supply. Eduardo is also responsible for driving his team’s highly successful outsourcing strategy, taking into considering the large investment and long lead-times associated with the products he is responsible for.

Stephen works in compliance and quality for Global Logistics at GlaxoSmithKline which includes strategic initiatives in regulatory compliance, internal quality management systems, risk management and governance. Stephen is a Green Belt in Lean Sigma and has a keen interest in promoting quality tools and techniques to transform businesses by reducing waste and improving efficiency.

Simona is directly responsible for ensuring a fully compliant supply chain according to the EU GDP guidelines and other global regulations. Recently, Simona has pioneered a global pilot project to install real-time data loggers to monitor, control and protect Actavis products. In particular, Simona’s expertise ensure that temperature control requirements are met in difficult regions such as the Middle East and Saudi Arabia.

Olivier Simonnot has been working for Sensitech Inc., UTC Building & Industrial Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp., for eight years and currently holds the position of Strategic Marketing Manager, Life Sciences EMEA. He previously held several positions in Marketing and Product Management in several international technology oriented companies. He holds a Master of Science in Telecommunications from the French engineering school ESIGETEL and a Master in Business Administration from the Rotterdam School of Management. He is an active member of the French Cold Chain Association, participated in the sub-commission on Metrology and Risk Assessment, Last Mile and is currently active in the EU GDP working group.

Jean-Marie Aulnette, Vice President of EMEA for TraceLink Inc., has been a visionary leader focused for more than 20 years on building and delivering solutions that protect patients, ensure product integrity and improve business performance. At TraceLink, Mr. Aulnette collaborates with companies across the EMEA markets to ensure visibility, traceability and compliance from ingredient to patient. Previously, Mr. Aulnette held a succession of leadership roles spanning 15 years serving companies throughout Life Sciences. At Abbott Diagnostics, he led development of enterprise solutions to help improve business processes. Before joining Abbott Diagnostics, Mr. Aulnette helped Phase Forward become a market leader in Europe, holding senior sales roles prior to and following Phase Forwards acquisition by Oracle. Mr. Aulnette stated in Life Sciences at Aster Cephac where he focused on contract research. Mr. Aulnette holds a masters degree in business from the Center;Etudes Superieures de Management International (CESMI) (groupe ISG).

Bernhard C. Baertschi is Head Global Sales & Marketing at SkyCell AG since 2013. He is an expert in global pharma logistics and emerging markets as well in global supply chain management, sales, marketing and cultures. Besides sales and marketing, his responsibilities in SkyCell include global business developments, defining and implementing innovative and best practice end to end logistics processes for customers, planning customer qualifications and consulting customers

Yves is in charge of leading major digitization programs in the IS Manufacturing and Supply domain. Among others, he is acting as the IT program manager of the Merck Track & Trace program, called TrackIT. Yves has many years of experience in the pharmaceutical business within corporate and site positions ranging from finance, manufacturing and supply chain areas.

Mike Broughton is the Director for Global Logistics. In this role, he will serve as the global process owner for pharmaceutical logistics. Responsibilities include developing a strategy and organizational structure for the internal and external distribution networks encompassing global operational polices and standards. Mike has over 28 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry including 24 years at Eli Lilly. During this time, he has held several positions ranging from pharmaceutical engineering, sterile product operations management, global manufacturing strategy and supply chain leadership in the United Kingdom. Mike received his BSEE degree from the University of Missouri and a MBA from Indiana University.

Riekert Bruinink is working at the Dutch Healthcare Inspectorate and held various positions, including management positions. Now he is a Senior GMP/GDP Inspector and specialized in Good Distribution Practice. He is Member of the EMA GDP Drafting Group. This group was responsible for making a proposal for a new EU GDP Guide and procedures for harmonizing GDP inspections in the European Union. From 2008 until 2013, Riekert Bruinink was Chairman of the PIC/S GDP Working Group. The Pharmaceutical Inspection Co-operation Scheme(PIC/S), located in Geneva, is a worldwide organization of pharmaceutical inspectorates of different countries. From 1981 until 1987 he worked as pharmacist in several public pharmacies. In 1987 he joined the Drug Inspectorate and in 1995 the Health Care Inspectorate in the Netherlands. Riekert Bruinink was awarded a MSc degree and a Pharm D degree by the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Harry’s career in supply chain started with a global food manufacturing company, followed by a number of appointments in retailing and ecommerce before ‘crossing the table’ and taking a leadership role in a 3PL organisation.

Joining DHL Supply Chain in 2004, Harry was first responsible for business development and key accounts within the EMEA Consumer and Retail sector, where he also took the lead for winning major transformational deals.

In 2012, the business recognised the need to focus more on existing customers and so Customer4Life was born. This global program aims to drive significant improvements in customer satisfaction and loyalty levels by maximising the value delivered from relationships between DSC and its customers, while improving contract retention and accelerated organic growth.

Measured from any angle - customer or internal, Customer4Life is making a big difference and is now recognised as the platform on which to achieve a key strategic objective – to become the most customer centric business in the 3PL industry.

Nathan De Valck has been working in the aviation industry since 2002. His cargo experience ranges from operational management, legal compliance, business development to commercial account management at several airports in Europe for cargo handling agents and airport operators.

Nathan has joined Brussels Airport Company in 2012 as Cargo & Product Development Manager. His responsibilities include account management and business development with the forwarders, shippers and other stakeholders at BRUcargo.

Nathan takes the lead in further strengthening BRUcargo's position as the preferred European pharmaceutical gateway, through the role of Brussels' cargo resident pharma and life science logistics expert.  

Nathan managed the IATA CEIV pharma certification program at BRUcargo making Brussels Airport the first cargo community in the world to be CEIV pharma certified.  He presides the BRUcargo Pharma Forum, which has developed an airside pharma transport solution, making Brussels Airport the first airport community with a fully integrated and guaranteed cool chain. 

Nathan is a board member of the Cool Chain Association and member of the IATA Time and Temperature Taskforce.

He studied in Belgium and France and graduated as commercial engineer in Logistics Business Management.

As Marketing Director Healthcare for UPS Europe, Jan is responsible for executing the UPS healthcare strategy in Europe. UPS is consistently investing in its healthcare capabilities to enable companies to cope with the industry’s growing need for more agile and flexible global supply chains. Prior to joining UPS in 2011, Jan worked for over 10 years in and for the healthcare industry. Most recently as Healthcare Marketing Manager for GS1, a global organization managing supply chain data standards, and before with other multi-national companies, AGFA Healthcare and Thomson Reuters.

Ralf supports his clients to grow in emerging markets as well as enabling supply chain visibility with the help of big data and the Internet of Things (IoT) to gain optimal supply chain performance. Digitalization trends in supply networks are a major focus of his work to support life science companies to achieve the next level in the pharmaceutical value chain. With more than 15 years of experience Ralf draws on his knowledge and expertise in areas of global sourcing, supplier management, supply chain operating models and IT architecture design.

Nina has extensive experience in the pharma industry having worked for companies such as Pfizer and Wyeth in marketing and sales roles where she was involved in the launching of new products. She worked for over 12 years with IMS Health in their management consulting division, providing added value services. Nina started her career as a Biochemist, specializing in nutrition. It has included positions as Managing director of a primary market research company, PMSI and marketing roles in a medical communication company. She joined PHOENIX group over a year ago to head up their new initiatives in Business Intelligence working across Europe.

Pascal Garsmeur, DynaSys Product Manager, is responsible for working with DynaSys customers to define requirements and help move solutions development forward to achieve maximum efficiency and effectiveness in DynaSys Demand & Supply Chain Planning (DSCP) areas. Pascal has over 20 years’ experience in Advanced Planning Systems (APS), ERP and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. He holds a Master in Business Administration from CNAM, “Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers”, in Paris France

Kurt Gillis has worked at OM Partners for 14 years. He is currently Director Business Development focusing on the life sciences, consumer goods and chemical industry. He is experienced in optimizing Pharma supply chain Planning and Scheduling in all its aspects. This includes advisory services to define the right process and its organizational impact and the implementation of best-fit tools to support supply chain management in this highly complex industry. Current customers include multiple top 20 pharma companies.

Andreas is responsible for developing innovative logistics solutions, and has implemented highly successful strategies in strategy definition, cost saving, organisation setup, IT landscapes and transformation of process within pharmaceutical and chemical companies. Recently, Andreas has been focusing on helping clients in solutions where logistics can add additional value to their products, best placing him to discuss the evolution from cost cutting to value creation.

Markus Hayek is leading Accenture’s Global Lifescience Operations practice. He is working with major Lifescience companies helping them to transform their supply chain operating models and to exploit digital opportunities.

Peter is a “Swiss-Army Knife” senior Healthcare professional and leader with deep expertise across the Pharma value chain accumulated in numerous roles, as business line manager, as project manager, as well as consultant who understands equally Business and Information Technology. He is a former head of Financial Planning and Controlling and a former head of Supply Chain Management of a division of one of the two companies that became Novartis and has been a management consultant focusing on Pharmaceuticals for almost 20 years. He has led projects in over 20 different countries around the world while he had extended stays in Asia, USA and Africa. He is responsible for the Camelot engagement in several large scale Supply Chain projects for Pharma clients.

Allen brings nearly 30 years of pharma and health sciences supply chain experience to FusionOps. He joined FusionOps from Pfizer, Inc., where as VP of Network Supply Planning, he was responsible for production planning, issue identification and mitigation via S&OP processes, and global inventory. Prior to Pfizer, he was AVP of Supply Chain for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Director of Supply Chain for Baxter Bioscience, and managed a medical device joint venture in Yugoslavia. Allen received his degree in Microbiology from the University of Maryland and did graduate work and research in immunology at Johns Hopkins University.

Mario has over 20 years of leadership experience in B2B services environments principally to the Healthcare industry. He has built a unique set of skills based on leading teams in marketing, procurement, commercial and distribution. In the last years he has contributed to the successful growth of the Alliance Healthcare services brands including Alloga.  

As a General Manager Mario has delivered shareholder value in dynamic and challenging markets; developed customer centric organisations and sustained performance in complex distribution and service businesses.  

Now leading integrated services business development for Alliance Healthcare, a division of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Mario is responsible for tailored services to healthcare manufacturers across all Alliance healthcare markets. In addition, Mario is Regional Director for Turkey.

Haris Kamal serves as Vice President of Sales, Health and Life Sciences at Frequentz. Mr. Kamal holds a Bachelor of Science in Management and International Business from George Mason University. He comes to Frequentz after having spent the last seven years as the Vice President of Business Development of rfXcel, a cloud-based software company in the drug, medical device, and food safety verticals. There, he was responsible for the growth and sales of their SaaS business. Having been in the industry from inception, Mr. Kamal is a trusted advisor in the field of Traceability and Serialization. Prior to rfXcel, Mr. Kamal also served as Director of the company, Agentrics, a cloud- based platform of supply chain applications, where he held autonomy over the Collaborative Supply Chain business unit. His success in building the business unit led to successful merger and later acquisition. He’s also widely seen as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the fields of ERPs, Supply Chain, and Change Management.

Julien Boisnet has a track record of more than 12 years as sales executive, representative and managemer for engineering and software companies.

Since 2004, he worked in the defense area (Nexter System) and Automotive OEM for an engineering body-shop company (Consort NT). In 2006, he joined Siemens Industry Software Simulation and Testing Solutions business group (ex LMS International). During more than 9 years, he worked closely with Siemens’ key customers around the world (EMEA, Mercosur and Asia). He is currently in charge of sales development on the European market for Adents. Julien is graduate engineer from ESIPE and holds an Executive MBA from HEC Paris Business school.

Bachar Chadaideh is the global Product Development Manager at Envirotainer, placed in Stockholm, Sweden, where his responsibilities cover the product portfolio and delivery of solutions for the pharma supply chain. He has more than 9 years of experience in product management and business development within biotech and diagnostics. Prior to his present position at Envirotainer, Bachar was working as Global Product Manager at GE Healthcare, Sweden, managing a portfolio of products in the field of bioprocess.

Bachar holds a MSc in Molecular Biotechnology Engineering from Uppsala University in Sweden, in combination with a diploma in Entrepreneurship.

Dr. Joachim Kuhn co-founded va-Q-tec AG in 2001 and serves as its CEO. He is an expert of thermal engineering in application systems. Dr. Kuhn studied Physics and holds more than 15 years experience in international Project Management. He is member of several national and international committees.

Sue Lee has worked for World Courier for 26 years. During this time she has experienced a variety of customer service and operational functions, including the  setting up of numerous, multi national, clinical sites for the transportation of biological samples. She has orchestrated the shipping thousands of shipments with very specific temperature requirements to a host of challenging locations, and each presenting their own obstacles and dilemmas. 

Manel leads warehousing and 3PL management in Europe, Middle East, Africa and India, making him accountable for a team of 150, a budget of $50 million, three BMS sites and 30+ LSP and distributor contacts. Through his role, Manel co-leads the is Global Network Strategy project, evolving future infrastructure, segmentation and partners required for BMS transformation. Manel also leads the Virtual Center of Excellence for Warehousing capabilities at BMS globally.

Johnathon heads up supply chain management for PwC’s pharmaceutical and life science group, he has considerable consulting experience in the healthcare and FMCG industries. Johnathon has worked at all levels within client organizations, covering both operations, commercial, sales and R&D functions within pharmaceutical business'. He has supported clients on global programs in a range of geographies from the US, Nordic Countries and Japan.

Yann Martin has started with 10 years experiences in the development and validation of solutions for temperature control of pharmaceutical cold chain products. During this period has deal with major pharmaceuticals companies all over the world as well for global and for local solutions developments and their implementations. He is now Global Sales Director of Emballiso, and takes responsibility of coordination of all business development activities of French headquarters but also subsidiaries included: UK, German, US, India, China, Brasil, Japan & Singaporean sites.

Dave Medina is the Vice President – Industry Verticals, responsible for QAD’s marketing and product strategy for QAD’s key industry markets including life sciences, automotive, consumer products, food & beverage, industrial and high tech. He is also the leader of the Industry Vertical Services Practice responsible for the services strategy supporting these market segments.

Prior to this David was the Vice President – Life Sciences for QAD, responsible for QAD life sciences marketing and product strategy. Prior to QAD he held positions at Hewlett-Packard as the Director - World Wide Life Sciences Industry Segment, responsible for HP’s enterprise sales and services strategy and solutions development for the life sciences industry, and later as Director – Product Management for Healthcare Analytics and Life Sciences. Before joining HP, he was the Director of Business Development and Marketing for Quintiles Consulting, a consulting division of Quintiles Transnational focused on GxP compliance and medical device development. Dave has held leadership positions in sales, marketing and consulting in a number of software companies in medical management as well as the medical diagnostics industry.

Dave has a BS from the US Coast Guard Academy, an MBA from Tulane University's A. B. Freeman School of Business, and a Graduate Studies Certificate in Medical Informatics from Northwestern University. He also holds a Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) designation from APICS, and a Regulatory Affairs Certification (RAC) from the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS),

At Schreiner MediPharm, Ann leads the development, marketing and sales of multi-functional specialty labels with value-added benefits for the pharmaceutical and medical device markets. She is accountable for the global strategy, sales organization and business development which build on the headquarters in Munich, Germany, local US production and a worldwide network of sales representatives. With over 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry, At Schreiner MediPharm, Ann leads the development, marketing and sales of multi-functional specialty labels with value-added benefits for the pharmaceutical and medical device markets. She is accountable for the global strategy, sales organization and business development which build on the headquarters in Munich, Germany, local US production and a worldwide network of sales representatives. With over 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry, Ann brings unique insight into solving customer’s challenges in the arena of product identification and supply chain integrity.

Heiske is the Supply Chain Segmentation lead within Amgen for the EMEA region. She drives Supply Chain integration and the implementation of required capabilities to ensure that the various customer segments are served in the optimal way. Besides this, she leads the development and deployment of the site strategy and initiates programs where needed to move the organization in the right direction. These programs vary from leadership development to the development of technical capabilities.

Oliver holds a PhD in Chemistry from the university of Würzburg, Germany and works in Pharma IT for 23 years. Oliver joined SAP in 1997 and held various positions in Life Sciences Solution Management as well as Development. Oliver took over the responsibility for SAP’s Life Sciences product portfolio in September of 2013 and architected SAP’s Track & Trace strategy for the pharmaceutical industry.

Vitalba leads the team of Global Logistics Quality that is responsible for quality and compliance oversight to active substance and finish product distribution from Switzerland to worldwide customers. This means to oversight the Third Party Service Provides accountable for warehouse and distribution activities. Vitalba and the Team have in their direct responsibility the development and improvement of quality processes for managing Distribution, Logistics & Transportation related activities.

Vitalba has almost 12 years of extensive international experience in the healthcare industry gaining expertize in supply chain, quality management at Affiliate and at global level. In the last two years, she works for Roche Global Roche Technical operations in Basel headquarter.

Michael Sauter has spent more than 25 years working in the pharmaceutical industry at leading companies located in both the US and Switzerland. He has worked in management and executive management roles that have included Chemistry, IT, and Regulatory Affairs, and R&D technology solutions. Michael spent 14 years leading Biogen's the Global Regulatory Operations, Project & Information Management functions. 

In Michael's most recent position as the former Senior Director, Digital Health Technologies Office at Biogen, he was participating in the formation and implementation of the Biogen Digital Health and Analytics Strategies.

Roeland Vandebrouck is responsible for distribution network design and strategy for AstraZeneca in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Particular challenges are future-proofing the network for an evolving product portfolio with an emerging focus on specialty care, and the integration of acquired product portfolios in AstraZeneca’s network.

Kerry leads her team with a vision to transform organisations through cultural change and working on all levels to build capability and drive results. Kerry specialises in improving supply chain performance and over the past eight years she has developed highly successfully strategies in operational excellence, supply chain optimisation and strategic planning.

John Munnelly’s career in logistics spans over 25 years, during which time he has experienced the industry from all angles - both third party and in house operations - with previous roles with TDG, Ryder, TNT, Shop Direct and Sainsbury’s. John has built up a wealth of experience and knowledge relating to all aspects of retail distribution, particularly specialising in operational startups for large scale automated solutions, transport operations, Direct to Customer Home Delivery and Omni-Channel fulfillment. 

John has successfully managed a number of high profile and technologically advanced projects. Working closely with suppliers such as Siemens, Knapp, VanDerLande, Witron and Manhatten Associates at all stages of project development and post implementation running, John has become an expert in his field 

For the last 10 years John has been responsible for the design, build and implementation of John Lewis’ semi-automated National Distribution Centre at Magna Park, Milton Keynes and is Head of Operations. 

This highly acclaimed, multi award winning development, which went live in 2009, is industry leading enabling one pool of stock to be used for all shop deliveries and customer fulfillment. A second warehouse has now been built alongside the current development and connected via a 100m link bridge, forming a campus with an operating footprint in excess of 2 million square feet.

Nicola is currently working in working in the Halle Westfalen Plant in Germany and responsible for Planning and Inventory Deployment, Customer Service Baxter products, Partmaster and Data Management and Supply Chain Process Improvement

Oscar is directly accountable for the IT, automation strategy and execution for platform sites in Janssen Pharma, including sites in Italy, Puerto Rico, California, Mexico and Brazil.  In his role, he has implemented highly successful strategies in developing Material Handling Systems and Electronic Batch Record Systems across multiple sites.

In the role of Vice President, Head of Cargo Janne Tarvainen is responsible for Finnair Cargo that is following Finnair Group’s Asia strategy and specialized in air cargo traffic between Europe and Asia. 

Janne joined Finnair in 1994 and he is an airline industry professional with wide competencies and more than 20 years of experience in various management and senior level positions (e.g. Vice President, Aircraft Maintenance & Engineering and Head of Operations Control Center) prior to his current role at Finnair. 

Janne holds a Master’s Degree in Engineering from Lappeenranta University of Technology

Fabrice has over 18 years’ experience in Supply Chain management in high tech and pharmaceutical industries. He has been responsible for the implementation of contract manufacturing program, logistic efficiency improvements and global customer management center. His fields of expertise include Project management, Order To Cash, Warehousing, Transportation & logistics, Cold Chain, SAP Deployment and Trade management. Fabrice joined Merck in 2010 as head of Global Customer Service for Biotech products, and through the years, he had the opportunity to constantly grow his scope of responsibilities being responsible of Biotech logistics operations, of Order Management for Intercontinental markets (GCC&NE, SAUDI, Africa, CIS, …) and taking over Pharma logistics operations. He is now heading the Global Warehousing & Distribution for Biopharma.

Gert has responsibility for implementing on site new ERPs, managing financial mergers, restructuring funds and developing the purchasing function on a production site. His is highly experienced in managing complex strategies to meet regulatory requirements and managing a group of responsibilities ranging from finance, logistics, IT and purchasing to Packaging design.

Manfred is an Executive Manager in Sales and Business Development of Enterprise-Class Technology Solutions with more than 20 years of experience. He worked with companies like Stada, Waters, Intergraph, Documentum and IDBS. Currently Manfred serves as Senior Director Sales EMEA at Systech International, a global technology leader in anti-counterfeiting, product safety, consumer and brand protection. Systech unifies and optimizes enterprise serialization, track and trace, and authentication technologies to ensure regulatory compliance, mitigate risk, and drive efficiency and profitability. Manfred holds a Diploma in Analytical Chemistry from the Technical College of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt

Olaf Zweig is Principal at PwC Strategy& and looks back on more than 16 years of experience in consulting renowned international clients within the Life Science and Health Care industry. His areas of focus are growth & market strategies, commercial & channel strategies and operations & supply strategies. Olaf is known in the industry for his expertise of stakeholder services (specifically patient services) and integrated health care concepts, which he developed and implemented in more than fifteen markets globally.

Jan Debaere is Director at PwC in Belgium, where he has the responsibility for the Pharma & Life Sciences Supply Chain practice. He has 18+ years of experience in supply chain management, both from within the industry as well as in consulting. His main focus is in integrated Demand and Supply Chain Planning and S&OP, Operating Models, Process Design and Advanced Planning Systems. In this role, he leads programs in (1) Supply Chain process assessments, visioning and concept development, (2) Design and implementation of Supply Chain processes/systems, (3) Process and Organization design projects, and (4) Change Management Programs

Managing partner and one of the founders of EyeOn. Graduated Econometrics at Tilburg University. Over 20 years of experience in analysing, improving and changing planning and control processes. Responsible for improvement projects within Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Philips Health Care, GlaxoSmithKline, Össur, Stryker, DSM, Astellas, St Jude Medical, Mediq, Allergan, Dräger Medical, ASML, TomTom, MSD Animal Health, NXP and Heineken. For a period of 3 years he was financial controller for the Audio and New Business within Philips Consumer Electronics. As chairman of the Life Science Network, he has worked with many companies within the Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Industry.

Steve’s pharmaceutical career has spanned 27 years, beginning with a wide variety of roles within the NHS in procurement, buying products from catering supplies to pharmaceuticals. He joined UniChem (now Alliance Healthcare (Distribution) Limited) in 1998 where he was a senior manager within our medical distribution business, in 2004 he spent 3 years managing the Hospital and Dispensing Doctor business, making him an expert in this channel. 

In 2007 Steve was appointed Head of Supplier Relations, a brand new area of the business that was formed to support the evolving trend of new supplier models (agency and reduced wholesale), by cultivating relationships with pharmaceutical manufacturers. 

Within 2 years, the team had expanded and Steve was appointed Director of Manufacturer Services in 2009. The team is currently responsible for negotiating new supply chain contracts, providing Key Account Management and the provision of new value-adding services. 

Steve is now a board member responsible for all our Client relations and Skills in Healthcare (Contracts sales and training team)

Scott Nelson is the founder and chief architect of Trax Technologies, a global innovator in harnessing logistics data to elevate supply chain performance for some of the world’s biggest companies. Scott has been developing transportation management systems for 25 years. He possesses a unique background that blends development of technology with transportation and financial business experience. During his career, he has served as the CIO for a third-party logistics company and as a Senior Partner for a transportation technology consulting and service company. He is nationally recognized as a pioneer in automated freight processing and distributed management information systems and has been recognized by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine as a supply chain "Pro to Know."

Senior Consultant and Lead Pharma at EyeOn. Graduated Logistics Engineering & Management Science at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Bram has 10 years experience in design, build and implementation of advanced planning systems and processes as well as operational E2E supply chain planning. He has lead and executed projects and master classes for a.o. Janssen Pharmaceutica, MSD (Merck), Aspen, Amgen, Abbott, DSM and Alexion.  

As an active contributor to the Life Science Network, Bram has shared his expertise with many companies within the Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Industry. He is co-author of the "Demand Planning in the Life Science Industry" and "Effective Customer Driven S&OP in the Pharmaceutical Industry" white papers.

Alessandro Spadini is responsible for the procurement of Indirect Spend (Energy, Investment, Corporate and Operational services, IT&TLC and Consultancy) within Barilla. He joined Barilla in 1993 as engineer and project manager for the Technical Department and R&D. Then he moved to the Operations, where he covered different roles (Technical Area Manager, Production Manager, Plant Director) in some plants in Italy and in the US. This expertise in Operations was empowered leading a central project for the plants’ organization development.

He joined Purchasing in 2009, driving the improvement of the procurement governance for indirect spend within the Barilla Group. In this role he mainly focuses on leveraging synergies among the different Barilla Legal Entities at international level, designing a network of “multifunction indirect buyers”. He is now leading the Barilla SRM Purchasing team, aimed at redesign the roles, tools and processes for a complete procurement transformation.

Heiko Bohm currently is VP EMEA Sales for the CEVA Logistics, Healthcare Sector. He joined CEVA Logistics recently, coming from Ferring International where he had a senior role managing the logistics and distribution for the group. During his career he gained experience in the FMCG sector and automotive industry. In his current role, Heiko is responsible to further develop and grow CEVA’s Healthcare sector in the EMEA region.

Kamaljit Hunjan currently is SVP Global Operations for the CEVA Logistics, Healthcare Sector. He joined CEVA Logistics recently, coming from General Electric Healthcare Division where he had an executive role responsible for strategy, procurement and operations of the logistics and distribution networks for the Division. During his career, he gained experience in the Hi Tech, Aerospace, Pharma & After Market sectors and automotive industry. In his current role, Kamaljit is responsible to drive operational excellence and standardization.

Professor Ünal received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Southern California and also taught as a Professor. Over the last 20 years he has worked on a large variety of Supply Chain Planning, Scheduling and Optimization projects as a researcher, designer and developer with Global-2000 clients from around the world.  

He is an expert in applying artificial intelligence based algorithm capabilities to complex planning problems in order to attain better streamlined and optimized supply chains with built-in flexibility to handle fluctuations in real-time. 

In addition he is the founder and CTO of ICRON Technologies, a software developer of advanced algorithm based planning, scheduling and optimization solutions. He is a well sought after lecturer and also teaches at Bogazici University.

Stefan is co-founder and managing director of tracekey. He is responsible for product development, consulting and technology. tracekey offers a smart and lean Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for pharmaceutical serialization to fulfill regulatory requirements and to add transparency to the supply chain.

Mark has recently taken responsibility for the development of the pan-European platform and approach for Movianto. He has had over 20 years’ experience in Pharmaceutical distribution covering Operations, Marketing and Business Development and had spent the last 8 years as a country General Manager and European Executive with both strategic and P&L responsibility.

Erika, is currently senior manager for the Network Solutions and Excellence - a Center of Excellence to design solutions for new products and businesses, and divestitures, operating models and channel strategies, market access & customer reach optimization and local and regional logistics network strategies.  Erika started her career in 2006 at Procter & Gamble as Market Planning Manager.  She then spent some time as Research Fellow at the Institute for Transport and Maritime Management in Antwerp, Belgium.  Next she moved to consultancy, with main experiences in the pharma and chemical sectors, primarily focusing on supply chain optimization and performance improvement projects. In that role she supported Pfizer from January 2013 onwards, finally moving back to the industry in November 2015.

For the last 21 years Ilan Eden is leading technology based initiatives for the process industries (Pharma, Chemicals, O&G). Ilan started his career as a project engineer, working for an SI in the area of Industrial Automation. He worked in this company for 10 years, ending up in the role of CTO. In his next career phase, Ilan led for 2 years SAP ERP based projects. In 2006, Ilan joined Teva Pharmaceuticals and served in few key positions within the global IT organization. He established and led the Global MES program for few years and is now leading the IT group responsible for Engineering & EHS related solutions. As part of this role he acts as the IT program manager for serialization.