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Konstantinos has recently joined IMS to lead the Greek affiliate and the Balkan team (Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, etc).

He has been leading Solvay Pharma in Greece for the last 5 years where he doubled turnover and bottom line next to organic growth and Fournier acquisition back in 2006. Previously he was area manager for the Nordic countries and the Baltic for another 5 years where he contributed to the establishment and development of Solvay affiliates in both mature (Scandinavia) and emerging (Baltic) markets. He has a sound record in business development, commercial effectiveness and strategic planning and dealt with parallel trade and pricing issues at corporate level. Has deep understanding of the pharmaceutical channel in Europe and GR in particular based on his 20 years of involvement in the pharmaceutical sector.

Konstantinos holds a BS and Ph.D in Pharmacy from the Universities of Athens & Lausanne, and an MBA from University of Strathclyde. He was born in Greece and lived and worked in Germany, France and Switzerland. He is a member of the Panhellenic Pharmaceutical Association, Onassis Welfare Institution and ex Board member of Panhellenic Association for Pharmaceutical Companies (SFEE).

Paul Garrison is the Chairman of the Garrison Group. He is a Visiting Professor of Marketing in MBA programs at Maastricht University (Bucharest), Skolkovo (Moscow) and Central European University (Budapest) where he also served as Dean of the Business School. Paul is a frequent guest lecturer at several leading universities and business conferences in both in Europe and the US and has served as host of the Central European Marketing Summit in 2007 and 2009.

Paul has worked in marketing for over 30 years. He started out at Procter & Gamble and then went on to serve two stints at Coca-Cola – first in the US, and then later as marketing director for Central and Eastern Europe (including responsibility for Romania), and finally as managing director in Hungary.

In between he ran his own advertising agency for 10 years in the US. In 2002 founded the Garrison Group strategic consultancy based in Budapest. The Garrison Group is highly involved in leading edge marketing throughout the region with clients such as Efes, IKEA, Sony PlayStation, Telenor, Bayer, P&G, UniCredit Bank, Sanofi, and, of course, Coca-Cola.

In addition to several marketing related articles published in leading business magazines in Europe and the United States, Paul has also written two historical books on Eastern Europe (Concrete Statues and The Distance) and the second edition of his marketing book – Exponential Marketing – was published in the fall of 2009.

Dragos Damian is a medical doctor, graduate of the Iuliu Hatieganu University, Cluj Napoca. He started a career in pharmaceutical industry as a medical representative within Roche, and, in the next years, he joined important pharmaceutical companies in top management positions.

In present, Dragos Damian is the Chief Executive Officer of Terapia-Ranbaxy

With the background of a physician, holding a MBA degree, Simona displays a 16 years experience in the pharma market, starting as a MedRep, holding various positions in marketing & sales, up to the general management status, covering R&D,generics & vaccines portfolios, within cross functional, national & European, inter-discipline, -companies & inter-industries teams.

Working within corporate / public affairs domain, as a senior director for the last, few years, Simona benchmarks an unique opportunity of matching experience & enthusiasm.

She has a 9 years old daughter, who wants to become veterinarian.

Sorin Popescu started 11 years ago with Merck Sharp & Dohme Romania, taking various responsibilities and managerial positions in sales (2 years), marketing (4 years), PR (2 years) and External Affairs.

In 2007 he was appointed to take the External Affairs Manager responsibility in MSD and also the lead of the External Affairs and Market Access Department in 2010 for the unified company (MSD and Schering Plough).

He played an active role since 2008 within the board of the local trade association (ARPIM) taking the lead of the Transparency, Pricing and Reimbursement Working Group and representing ARPIM interests under the vice-presidency of MSD. Sorin expressed the R&D industry position in front of the national and European authorities, influencing governmental policies in the health system, in the benefit of the pharmaceutical industry and Romanian patients' access to innovation.

Since May 2010 he took the Corporate Affairs position in Amgen, the worldwide leader in biotechnology. Due to the fact that Amgen was elected to take the ARPIM Presidency, Sorin Popescu was involved very much to represent the interests of the innovative industry in Romania during these difficult times.

By education, he is Physician, also graduated the Master of Public Health and the EMBA from INDE Bucharest and CNAM Paris.

Corina is General Manager for IMS Romania since March 2001. She has a deep understanding of the pharmaceutical channel in Europe and Romania in particular based on her 10 years of involvement in the pharmaceutical sector.

Prior to joining IMS Health, she worked for various Regional European Companies as Commercial Director, Director of Strategy and Development, leading organic growth projects locally.

Corina's academic background includes a MBA from American School and Technical University in Timisoara.

She speaks fluent English and Romanian and and conversational in French and Russian.

My work experience started in 2005 when I joined Ziarul Financiar as journalist.

After working a few months in the "Business International" Department I had the opportunity to write about the pharmaceutical market which is today my main area of interest. I also cover industries like furniture, beverages and private equity. I keep track of all the changes in the pharmaceutical regulations, the mergers and acquisition and their market impact.