Episodes

Steve Scalia is the President of Tanner Pharma Group, a 20-year-old specialist pharmaceutical services provider headquartered in Charlotte, NC USA with offices in the United Kingdom, Brazil, Switzerland, and Ireland. Tanner provides a portfolio of service offerings focused on improving global access to medicines worldwide. In his role, Steve leads the company’s business activities with oversight of the commercial divisions, cross-functional departments, the Corporate Governance Team, and the Sen...

Jacobo Luchtan is the CEO and Co-Founder at HelloDoctor, a Mexican startup providing data-driven telehealth services. They operate in more than 10 Latin American countries and have successful cases with patients from each. They created a neutral bridge that connects patients and healthcare practitioners where they can provide online consultations, digital recipes, online pharmacies, track their medical records, and more. Jaco strongly believes that healthcare is a human right and anyone should h...

BS in Civil Engineering. More than 40 years of urban building experience; more than 20 years of experience in design-build; construction of pharmaceutical facilities, and more than 15 years involved in startups dealing with technological innovation. Founded Naveta Construcciones in 1983, a real estate development firm that completed more than 300 projects. Founded Grupo Inmobiliario Pharma, S.A. de C.V. (Parque Pharma®) back in 2003 as a boutique real estate firm focused on the Life Sciences Ind...

CEO and founder of the Alium group of companies in Peru. Rolando is a dentist, a service provider for the local dentistry sector, and a medical device distributor of dental products. Rolando’s academic credentials include a global executive MBA from the IESE business school, a fellowship in endodontics, and a degree in dental surgery.

Mahesh Narayanan is an entrepreneur in biotechnology with extensive experience in the healthcare and life sciences industry, and a strong focus on business development and business start-up strategies. As an active member of the Small Business community, he provides business and scientific guidance in the development of therapeutics and medical devices. He has experience in taking an idea from concept to consumers and considerable knowledge on patents, business plans, fundraising, and incorporat...

Hernan Burgos is an IT Professional with over 30 years of experience working with various organizations including government, law, and health. Hernan has been the Director of Sales Development for Smile CDR for the last 4 years, with a growth of 300% during 2020 and expecting a 500% growth for 2021. Smile CDR has clients in 15 countries with a forecast of reaching 20+ countries by 2022. We are living through a historical moment in the Health Information World Systems, for the first time the enti...

Marie O’Malley is the Senior Director of Supplier Outreach for Medtronic, responsible for developing and executing long-term Medtronic supplier outreach programs, including efforts around Responsible Supply Management and Supplier Diversity. In her role, she also liaises with various government officials and development boards to advance Medtronic’s Supplier relations. Marie also leads the team to advance communication strategies for Medtronic’s Global Supply Management organization. Marie join...

Charlie Webb is the Founder and President of Van der Stahl Scientific, a medical device packaging and texting machine provider. He also hosts the popular Podcast “SPOT Radio” (sterile packaging on track). Charlie earned his BS degree in Management at the University of Redlands and completed the medical device development program at the Andersen graduate school of management at UCLA. Charlie is a “lifetime” certified packaging professional “CPPL” certified through the institute of packaging profe...

Mr. Deven Patel , the CEO, President, and Cofounder of Global Institute of Stem Cell Therapy and Research (GIOSTAR ) with headquarter in San Diego, California, U.S.A. GIOSTAR was formed with the vision to provide affordable stem cell-based therapies to the masses around the world suffering from degenerative or genetic diseases and unable to afford today’s high cost of treatment. Mr. Patel has served as the CEO, President, and Board of Directors in highly comprehensive industries such as Healthc...

During 2020 Jonathan has been in a crucial leadership position, steering Livinguard through a unique inflection point in its business and building the teams to drive brand building, communications, and sales for Livinguard’s antiviral, reusable face masks, and several other new products. Jonathan has a wealth of business and leadership experience, having spent the previous 14 years with 3M, where amongst other roles he was Managing Director, 3M Israel. As an innovation enthusiast, he established...

Dr. Michael Hill is a global-minded senior executive with a history of success creating meaningful, patient-inspired, medical device technology innovations. He is a skilled entrepreneur demonstrating repeat innovation execution from idea/discovery to commercial scale. He was inducted in 2012 as an American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering Fellow and awarded the Distinguished Engineering Alumni from Duke University in 2013. He possesses deep domain knowledge of science and technolo...

Seasoned Healthcare Executive with proven skills for people development, organizational transformation, and motivation with 15 years delivering above and beyond financial results. Mr. Pastor has an exemplary external focus and is highly collaborative with customers and a wide range of stakeholders to match the company with customers’ needs. He is very adaptive and able to connect strategy to purpose in a way that fosters commitment, Javier has the imagination to innovate and the courage to imple...

Executive entrepreneur turned digital health entrepreneur, his career includes 18+ years leading global drug development, clinical research, and decentralized trials for life science organizations. As CEO of THREAD, John leads their efforts to change the way clinical research is conducted focused on decentralized approaches, enabling the use of their one platform for conducting modern research studies and leading partnerships with their customers. After launching and growing THREAD, they were ac...

Thomas Celerier is heading their Healthcare, MedTech, and Life Sciences business, teams, and portfolio of clients for the Palo Alto Offices, Marcel Gradidge is a Director in the Business Advisory unit in the Silicon Valley Market and Gautam Narayan is a leader in the Emerge Supply Chain Division. All of them come from a diverse background managing global projects and teams and with experience in international relationships, with careers, professional and personal lives spanning multiple location...

Mitchell is the President of H Clinical, the leader in decentralized trial and home health services for clinical trials across Latin America. With a 15-year passion for enabling clinical research, supporting life sciences, and transforming organizations, Mitchell is responsible for H Clinical’s strategy, business activities, and operations. Prior to H Clinical, Mitchell served as Managing Director, Everglade Rx, Executive VP & General Counsel, Advarra, and Associate Attorney, K&L Gates. Mitchell...

Chris Sedgwick is the Americas Trade Specialist at the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Office of Trade and Investment. He has lived in Chicago for 9 years. Born in Los Angeles, he attended California State University Northridge where he received his Bachelor of Arts in French. As a student, he participated in the Junior Year Abroad program at the University of Aix-en-Provence in France. He later went on to receive his MBA from the Thunderbird Graduate School of Global Ma...

Kameel is the Principal of KDF Ventures LLC, venture capital and private equity firm. He is a leader in global finance with over 20 years of experience in established and emerging markets within the biopharmaceutical industry. Prior to KDF Ventures, Kameel was the Senior Vice President of Finance at Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc the world leader in developing RNA-based human therapies. He also worked at Amgen, one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, for 16 years. While at Amgen, Kameel ...

Jhonatan Bringas Dimitriades, MD is a Medical Doctor and executive who works with technologists, developers, medical professionals, and patients to deliver the right digital and technical solutions to enhance the diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and quality of life of patients around the globe. Dr. Bringas believes in the democratization and digitalization of medicine. He Bringas has worked in the implementation of medical technologies in some of the top medical centers worldwide, such as the May...

Gerardo is a C-Level executive, serial entrepreneur, inventor, and scholar in the medical device industry. Gerardo founded five medical device companies and is a consultant to over 50 medical device companies in the Silicon Valley area. Gerardo is an advisory board member of the Santa Clara University (SCU) BioE, the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) Catalyst Program, the UCSF Surgical Consortium, and the Simon Fraser University Bioengineering Innovation Blvd. He is also an adjunc...

Hailing from a family of tech industrialists and medical thought leaders, Bjorn possesses a native drive and understanding for applying technologies to solve challenges in healthcare. Bjorn earned his M.Sc. in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics and B.Sc. from European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel, where he graduated in the top 3% and 10% of his class respectively. Andrés Herrero is responsible for the European operations of i²medi, he is leading the i²medi's German ...

James Sapirstein has served over thirty-five years in the pharmaceutical industry. He is currently the President and CEO of AzurRx BioPharma (AZRX:NASDAQ). He has been part of almost two dozen drug product launches and specifically either led or has been a key member of several HIV product launches into different new classes of therapeutics at the time. Mr. Sapirstein started his career in smaller biotech companies when he later joined Gilead Sciences, Inc. (GILD) in order to lead the Global Ma...

Oscar Segurado is an executive veteran of the biopharmaceutical industry with extensive global leadership experience in translational science, clinical development, and medical affairs. Oscar is Chief Medical Officer for ASC Therapeutics, former CMO for Symvivo, Myriad Genetics, and CellMax Life, Vice President for Becton Dickinson, and Global Medical Head for Abbott/AbbVie. Segurado is a senior medical leader experienced in matrixed, line management, and consulting for biotechs, midsize, and la...

Jeff Galvin is the CEO and Founder of American Gene Technologies™ (AGT). He earned his BA degree in Economics from Harvard in 1981 and has more than 30 years of business and entrepreneurial experience including founder or executive positions at a variety of Silicon Valley startups. Several of his companies were taken public and/or sold to public companies, including one in the medical-technology arena that was sold to Varian, the leading maker of linear accelerators used in cancer therapy. Follo...

Michael Patterson is the CEO of US Cannabis Pharmaceutical Research and Development LLC (US Cannabis), a privately-held developmental consulting firm that was established in 2014 with the mission of moving society forward through legalized cannabis. US Cannabis develops the legal cannabis/hemp/CBD markets globally across all platforms (education, cultivation, production, dispensing, research and development, management operations and compliance, and physician services). US Cannabis currently w...