Dear Colleagues,
Please join me in congratulating and welcoming Ashish Pal as our new Managing Director for MSD in Indonesia, to succeed Chris Tan who will become our Zone Leader for Singapore and Malaysia, as announced earlier.
Ashish, who joins us officially on November 1, 2014 will transition with Chris through December 2014 when he and his family will relocate to Jakarta. During this period, Ashish and Chris will partner in leading the Indonesia organization through the critical planning cycle for 2015 and beyond.
I ask all of you to please welcome Ashish and extend your fullest support and collaboration to him during his on-boarding, and to Chris as he continues to support MSD in Indonesia, while assuming his new role.
Ashish comes to us with more than 20 years of progressive US and International in-country operational and strategic leadership experience in the healthcare industry. He began his career with Searle (now Pfizer Inc.) in India, before moving to Alcon Novartis in Texas, then to Organon, Schering-Plough, and Merck &Co., Inc. in New Jersey.
Most recently, he led the MSD-Sun joint venture based out of India as General Manager. Ashish has been General Manager of this JV since MSD and Sun Pharmaceutical entered into a strategic collaboration, in April 2011, to develop, register and commercialize innovative branded generics for the emerging markets (EM).
Ashish was responsible for successfully operationalizing this first-of-a-kind, pan-EM joint venture and built a strong team of cross-divisional leaders. Working in close collaboration with Sun and cross-divisional MSD colleagues around the world, the JV achieved multi-country registration approvals as well as commercialized the first product. The appointment of Ashish’s successor to lead the JV will be the subject of a separate announcement.
Prior to this, as Senior Director of Portfolio Marketing, Emerging Markets, Ashish worked in close collaboration with in-country operational teams in Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Turkey and India on quantifying upside revenue opportunities, fuelled by both market and share development, for the Women’s Health franchise. This approach was subsequently expanded to include other core therapeutic areas.
During his tenure with Organon and then Schering Plough, as Senior Director for Global Marketing, Ashish’s accomplishments included leading global marketing efforts for both CERAZETTE and IMPLANON, and effectively repositioning these brands for double- digit growth through both market and share expansion,
Ashish started his US pharmaceutical career with Alcon Novartis where, as Director of US and International Marketing for the Allergy franchise, he and his team were responsible for driving transformational growth of about 2,000% - making it one of the largest and fastest growing franchises in the company’s fifty-two year history. They were able to accomplish this by significantly expanding the customer base beyond ophthalmologists and optometrists and driving strong execution to include primary care physicians, pediatricians, allergists, and ENT physicians. PATANOL, the flag ship brand for the franchise, also became the first prescription eye drop on the US market to go direct to consumer.
Ashish’s subsequent leadership roles at Alcon Novartis included starting the Retinal pharmaceuticals business, and leading US and international marketing for the Vitreo-retinal surgical instrumentation business, capital equipment, instrumentation, and operating room consumables.
Ashish has a Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Mumbai and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Sincerely,
Patrick Bergstedt
President, Asia Pacific
Sedang diterjemahkan, harap tunggu..