2024’s Executive Profiles

Pharm Exec

Central to the Mission

Harpreet Gill, vice president of real-world solutions - project management at ICON, discussesthe progress and challenges in advancing data-driven tools and approaches in decentralized clinical trials, where ongoing education remains paramount.

Eyeing Efficiency for All

Paige Bingham has focused her career on improving clinical research operations and logistics, and not just ways to ease the burden for investigators and teams running the trials—but also for the patients involved in them.

Fighting for Innovation

Damien Bailly, president of established markets at Astellas, discusses why partnerships and collaborations are a critical organizational—and wider ecosystem—imperative in ensuring that patients have access to the medicines they need.

Yvonne Greenstreet: Answering the Call

From Big Pharma to biotech—and a globe-spanning journey along the way—Yvonne Greenstreet, this year’s Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association Woman of the Year, is right where she wants to be: leading efforts to advance “bold ideas” in RNAi therapeutics into life-changing gains for patients.

Craig Tooman: Silencing the Distractions

Craig Tooman, CEO of Silence Therapeutics, on steering through the rough biotech funding and investment waters post-pandemic—and how a retooled organizational approach has the company in a stronger position today in the growing field of gene silencing through siRNA drugs.

Big Bets, Bold Steps

Ken Keller, CEO of Daiichi Sankyo’s US business, reflects on the trials, triumphs, and lessons learned in steering the transformation of a legacy cardiovascular company into a global leader in oncology—advancing a vision for a reimagined future in cancer treatment.

Jan van de Winkel: Antibody Ascension

Jan van de Winkel, PhD, president and CEO of Genmab, the longtime innovation engine in antibody drug development, discusses its vision for adding a new business identity: commercial driver.

Rafaat Rahmani: Beating the Odds

Rafaat Rahmani, president and founder of Lifescience Dynamics, grew up in abject poverty, but such hardships—and a later violent brush with racism—would ultimately end up fueling a determined and entrepreneurial path in the life sciences.

Noam Solomon: Bringing the Human Story to AI

A look at one biotech’s mission to map the immune system using artificial intelligence—and how its growth as a Big Pharma partner could help unlock the potential of next-generation cancer treatments.

Pharma’s ‘Best-Kept Secret’

Margaret Keegan, the new CEO of Precision Medicine Group, is eager to elevate the profile of the expert-rich service provider and build it into an industry leader in next-gen drug development and commercialization support.