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Pharmacien des hôpitaux - Chef de service, Hopital Bichat-Claude Bernard AP-HP, Paris
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Faculté de Pharmacie, Université René Descartes, Paris V, France |
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Packaging development manager, Bayer Santé Familiale, France |
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Head of Product Development for the Division Pharma & Film, Constantia Hueck-Folien, Germany
Stefan Frischmann joined Hueck Folien USA in 1997 and has held many positions in the group. Technical Product Manager Pharma & Healthcare at Constantia Hueck Folien from 2003 to 2007, he is now Head of Product Development. |
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Head of Innovation/R&D, Neopac, Switzerland
Andreas Geiger has been in charge of the Innovation & Development team at Neopac since March 2009. He is responsible for the creation and expansion of barrier materials and new applications for tubes. Before joining Neopac, Mr. Geiger worked as Head of R&D at Zeller Plastik GmbH and Development Manager for moulds at Gerresheimer and as Department Head of the Pharma Packaging Division at Schott Glaswerke. |
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Sales Manager, Stora Enso Carton Board, Finland
Sari Häkli is Sales Manager for Stora Enso Carton Board. She has been with the company since 1988 working in sales and IT of Packaging Boards. In her current position, Sari is responsible for sales and business development of pharmaceutical packaging solutions focusing to European market. Sari holds a Master’s Degree in Knowledge Management from the Technical University of Lappeenranta in Finland. |
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Director of pharmaceutical R&D, Laboratoires VIRBAC, France
After gaining a HNC in Polymer Engineering and B-Eng Polymer Engineering at the University of North London, Derek Hindle held positions of Product Designer and Senior Product Designer at Massmould Ltd where he was responsible for the design and development of new closures. In 2001, he moved to Rand Worldwide as an Applications Engineer where he ran CAD training classes for large companies like Visteon, Caterpillar and TRW. In 2004, Derek moved to UCP, which is a business of Global Closure Systems (GCS) as the Design and Projects Manager, responsible for the new product development department. In 2009, Derek was promoted to a group role and became the Global Innovations Director where he is responsible for the facilitation of creativity sessions within the GCS group and its customers. |
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Product Manager Syringes, SCHOTT forma Vitrum, Switzerland
After B.Sc. in Chemistry from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur Switzerland and a Master of Advanced Studies in Business- and Process-Management with “Product and Development Management” from the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland positions in R&D, project manager in product development and product management for Laboratory and Industry Equipments for the Food and Pharmaceutical industry. Since September 2009 Global Product Manager Syringes with SCHOTT forma vitrum ag in Switzerland. |
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Head of R&D and sustainability Manager for the Division Pharma & Film, Constantia Hueck-Folien, Germany
Dr. Dirk Kaczmarek has a Ph. D in the field of Plastic Extrusion Technology. He has been head of R&D at Constantia Hueck Folien since 2007 and was previously Project manager R&D at a converting company in Germany, from 2003 to 2007. |
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Sales Manager, MegaPlast GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
Karlheinz Klein has more than 20 Years of international experience in the Mechanical Dispensing System environment. He started his career with Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH, a supplier for Mechanical Dispensing Systems. After spending 15 years in leading sales positions, he founded his own company, Businessdock Outsourcing Management, focusing on sales consulting and support for the Mechanical Device manufacturer. He worked for two years with MegaPlast on a client base before joining MegaPlast in January 2009, where he is now responsible for the Pharma Division.
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Directeur, Laetus, France
A graduate of the Paris Ecole Supérieure de Gestion and the Cachan IUT d’Electronique, Jean-Luc Lasnehas 15 years’ experience of drug packaging control gained from close contact with production sites. He has been running Laetus France for the past four years. |
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Global Marketing Director, Rexam Healthcare, France
Patrice Lewko is the Global Marketing Director for Rexam Healthcare. He has been with Rexam since 1994 working in packaging and drug delivery solutions both in the US and Europe. Patrice is in charge of identifying the pharmaceutical industry needs, defining requirements and promoting the development of innovative new products. |
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Medical manager, DCA Design, UK
Daniel has a first class honours in Industrial Design & Technology from Loughborough University. With over 12 years experience as an Industrial Designer, Daniel has varied experience across a number of industry sectors, primarily within the area of pharmaceutical/medical device development. Following 4½ years working for GSK within their Inhaled Products division, Daniel joined DCA as a medical project manager (working alongside Rob). As well as leading medical and scientific projects Daniel also has a long-held interest in sustainability and eco-design. In 1996, his undergraduate dissertation, “Plastic waste management – a Designer’s perspective” was published as a series of three papers in Rapra Technology’s ‘Progress in rubber and plastics technology’ journal. |
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Global Product manager, Alcan Packaging, USA
Sandra Luciano is the Global Product Manager for Alcan Packaging’s line of “Aluminum Free” thermoformable products such as Polybar™ Aclar® and COC, which lies within the company’s core competencies of high barrier materials thermoformable flexible materials, using Polybar®, Aclar®, COC and Clear Push-Through Lid-stock. She reports out of the Alcan Packaging Pharma Center in Shelbyville, KY USA. She has been involved in pharmaceutical and medical device packaging for well over 19 years and has been on the Board of Directors for the Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council in the US for 15 years.
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Senior Pharmacist International Auditor, Comité International de la Croix-Rouge (CICR), Switzerland
A plastics expert by training, after working for various HUTCHINSON & CYCLEUROPE research centres in the area of technical car and cycle thermoplastic parts, Cyrille was appointed R&D manager for the ROVIP group and helped create Top Clean Injection, where he is Managing Director and Technical Director.
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Directeur Général, Top Clean Injection, France |
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Vice President, United Closures and Plastics Limited, UK
Louis Meyerowitz, with over 35 years experience in the plastic closure industry specifically in the development of Push’N’ Turn and Squeeze ‘N’ Turn child resistant closure systems, is currently Managing Director of UCP, Norwich UK (a division of Global Closure systems) which specialises in the design and manufacture of child-resistant, dispensing and tamper evident closures for the Pharmaceutical market. He is also a founder member of the CSPG (Child Safe Packaging Group) and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
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Corporate Communications Manager, AlpVision SA, Switzerland
Roland Meylan is the co-founder of AlpVision and today serves as Corporate Communications Manager. He holds an MS degree in signal processing and digital communication from the “Swiss Federal Institute of technology of Lausanne (EPFL)”, Switzerland, as well as a postgraduate education in Business Administration from IMD Lausanne International Business School. Meylan started his career at the graphic division of Bobst SA, the leading supplier of equipment for the folding carton packaging and flexible materials industries. Meylan also worked in electronic communication over international data transmission networks, the forerunners of the Internet.
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Product Manager for Prefillable Syringe Systems, BD Medical - Pharmaceutical Systems, France
Nicolas graduated from Polytec' Grenoble and holds a Material Science Engineering degree. Nicolas joined BD Medical Pharmaceutical Systems in 2003 where he has held different positions in Customer Quality Assurance-Technical Support, and Marketing as Program Manager. He is currently Product Manager for Prefillable Syringe Systems, and specializes in the Biotech field.
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Directrice Innovation, Marketing, Développement, Promens, France
For the last 11 years Isabelle Orhan has led the marketing actions of Promens for the Personal Care and Healthcare market to establish this rigid plastic manufacturer to be recognized as expert in compliance. Isabelle has focused on developing new value added packaging thanks to a new and exclusive process called "compliance innovation". Today Isabelle is managing three Departments, which are Innovation, Marketing and Development, with the main objective being to develop innovative functions for packaging. Isabelle Orhan holds a global executive MBA from IESE Business School University of Navarra.
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Director of Business Development, Valois Pharma, France
Hervé Pacaud has an experience of more than 20 years in drug delivery devices. After joining Valois Pharma, Hervé took responsability for sales in Europe and more recently in China where he was in charge of the Asia Pacific region. He is now Director of Business Development and has the global responsibility for the development of the sales of Valois Pharma’s spray pump line of products. Hervé graduated in Sales and Marketing from the University of Amiens France.
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Director of Business Development, Gerresheimer Bünde GmbH, Germany
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Pharmacien praticien hospitalier, UF évaluation achats des médicaments (UF EAM) - AGEPS AP Paris
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Global Director, Healthcare Packaging with Multisorb Technologies, Inc., USA
Adrian Possumato is responsible for developing and managing Multisorb’s global healthcare portfolio, which includes pharmaceutical, diagnostics, dietary supplement and medical device market segments. Possumatos’ extensive experience at Multisorb also includes serving in a similar role as the global manager of Multisorb’s pharmaceutical market from 2001-2006, where he was responsible for guiding the company’s pharmaceutical business planning and implementation. He has more than 18 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and healthcare markets.
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Sales Manager, Bioluz, France
After experience as Area Sales Manager for Technoflex, Christophe Sanfilippo joined Bioluz in 2007 to manage the sales department of the contract manufacturing division. Christophe graduated in Chemistry and has a Master in International Business Economics.
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Pharmacie, Centre hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, France
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Responsable développement STERRAD, Advance Sterilization Product, France
A materials engineer by training, Caroline worked for BOSCH in R&D on car braking systems. She then did an MA in Populations Biology, qualified as a Clinical Research Specialist at Sup-Santé and worked in that capacity at the Léon Bérard Anti-Cancer Centre in Lyon. For the past two years, Caroline has been in charge of Sales Support at Advanced Sterilization Products, an ETHICON division (J & J) She is in charge of development of the STERRAD range.
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Director of Packaging Development, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma, Germany
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Maître de Conférences en Pharmacie-Toxicologie, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort et unité INSERM U955, France
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Director, Global Pharmaceutical Packaging Development, TEKNIPLEX, Belgium
After finishing his education in Electro Mechanical Engineering and Material Sciences, Michiel van der Berg started his professional career in the European Packaging Development team of Procter & Gamble in 1991. In 1995, he left the world of fast-moving consumer goods for a role in pharmaceutical packaging with Eli Lilly and Company as a Packaging Engineer and later as manager of the Global Packaging Technology and Development group. In 2001, he became director of Global Pharmaceutical Packaging Development at Tekni-Plex and has global responsibility for pharmaceutical and medical packaging development. |
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Marketing & Sales Director, Schreiner ProSecure, Germany
Thomas Voelcker obtained his master’s degree in business administration from the University of Muenster in 1993. After starting his professional career in the product management with Kraft General Foods AG in Bremen, he worked in divers marketing management positions for the Fasson Roll Division of Avery Dennison for seven years. Here he managed the product portfolio of self-adhesive label stock for office and security applications for Europe. Since July 2001, Thomas Voelcker has been driving innovations in product, processes and innovations as a director of sales & marketing in the ProSecure business unit of the Schreiner Group in Germany. He is responsible for directing world-wide marketing and sales activities for label-based solutions of brand and document protection. In his role he is consulting global brand owners in risk analysis, anti-counterfeiting strategies and authentication technology integration.
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CEO Dividella AG, Switzerland
Dr Manfred Zurkirch is Managing Director of Dividella AG which he joined in 2006 from a leading Swiss technology group where he was Business Unit Manager, and previously VP Marketing & Sales. His expertise covers the capital equipment industry and through his extensive sales activities he has an excellent knowledge of international markets. He previously held various technical and managerial positions in Switzerland’s biggest telecommunications corporation. Manfred is a doctorate physicist and he also holds a Masters Degree from a top business school in Paris.
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