Praful Chakkarwar – Country Manager, Novo Nordisk Pharma Singapore
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Novo Nordisk
Last updated: 17.01.2019
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company headquartered in Denmark. They are committed to driving change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic conditions.
Novo Nordisk has more than 90 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. They also focus on other serious chronic conditions: haemophilia, growth disorders and obesity.
Novo Nordisk employs approximately 43,200 people in 79 countries and markets its products in more than 170 countries.
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Mads Stoustrup – VP & General Manager, Novo Nordisk Switzerland
Novo Nordisk Switzerland’s Mads Stoustrup introduces the affiliate’s remarkable process on bringing innovative…
Axel De Muyt – General Manager & VP, Novo Nordisk Belgium
Axel De Muyt, general manager & VP of Novo Nordisk Belgium and Luxembourg, recounts his journey through the…
Cecilia Radu – General Manager, Novo Nordisk Romania
Cecilia Radu of Novo Nordisk Romania shares her tumultuous four years that have seen declining market share and…
Calin Galaseanu – General Manager, Novo Nordisk Hungary
Calin Galaseanu, recently appointed general manager of Novo Nordisk Hungary, elaborates on the country’s strong…
Steve Profit – General Manager, Novo Nordisk Taiwan
Steve Profit, general manager of Novo Nordisk Taiwan, shares a newcomers’ perspective as a recent transplant to…
John Dawber – Vice President & General Manager, Novo Nordisk Thailand
John Dawber, vice president and general manager of Novo Nordisk Thailand, offers his first impressions of the Thai…
Niels Abel Bonde – Managing Director, Novo Nordisk Sweden
Niels Abel Bonde, general manager of Novo Nordisk Sweden, explains the strategic significance of the Swedish market…
Göran A. Ando – Chairman of the Board, Novo Nordisk (Retired); Board…
Dr Göran A. Ando, former chairman of Novo Nordisk and a Swedish life sciences industry veteran, recently moved…
Rana Azfar – Vice-President & General Manager, Novo Nordisk Korea
Rana Azfar, vice-president & general manager of Novo Nordisk Korea offers his impressions of the Korean market…
Interview: Olga Insua – General Manager, Novo Nordisk, Portugal
Olga Insua, the new American general manager for Novo Nordisk Portugal, fresh off the plane from Spain, provides an…
Interview: Drago Vuina – Corporate Vice President, Novo Nordisk Eastern…
Drago Vuina, corporate vice-president of Novo Nordisk Eastern Europe, highlights Poland as the most significant…
Interview: Marijus Valatka – General Manager, Novo Nordisk Lithuania,…
Marijus Valatka, general manager Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia at Novo Nordisk, explains the current challenges and…
Interview: Allan Finkel – Vice President and General Manager, Novo Nordisk…
Allan Finkel, recently voted Novo Nordisk’s best GM globally, speaks about the partnerships and projects that the…
Interview: Jean-François Courtet – General Manager, Novo Nordisk Tunisia…
Jean-François Courtet, who has been leading the Tunisian affiliate of Novo Nordisk as general manager for three…
Interview: Jean-François Courtet – General Manager, Novo Nordisk Tunisia…
Jean-François Courtet, who has been leading the Tunisian affiliate of Novo Nordisk as general manager for three…
Interview: Brian Hilberdink – President, Novo Nordisk Canada
Brian Hilberdink, President of Novo Nordisk Canada, highlights the key role that Canada plays as a pilot market for…
Interview: Mogens Guldberg – General Manager, Novo Nordisk Austria
Mogens Guldberg, general manager of Novo Nordisk Austria, the Danish global powerhouse focused on innovative…
Interview: Alexander Boiko – General Manager, Novo Nordisk Ukraine
Alexander Boiko, general manager of Novo Nordisk Ukraine, provides insights into the recent progress and remaining…
Interview: Mads Stoustrup – General Manager, Novo Nordisk Switzerland
Diabetes is well managed in Switzerland’s patient-centric healthcare system, yet with new data showing Novo…
Interview: Peter Ulvskjold – Corporate Vice President of International…
Peter Ulvskjold, the Corporate Vice President of International Operations in Southeast Asia, highlights the…
Interview: Aleksandar Ciric – General Manager, Novo Nordisk Slovakia
A native of Serbia, Aleksandar Ciric provides his first impressions of the Slovak market and business atmosphere,…
Morten Vaupel – Vice President & General Manager, Novo Nordisk Mexico
In Mexico, more than 13 million people live with diabetes, while 71 percent of the total population have obesity or…
Maziar Mike Doustdar – Executive Vice President of International…
In part two of an exclusive interview, Novo Nordisk’s Maziar Mike Doustdar expands on the potential of emerging…
Maziar Mike Doustdar – Executive Vice President of International…
In part one of an exclusive interview (part two here), Novo Nordisk’s Maziar Mike Doustdar explains the…
Interview: Zsolt Jozsa – General Manager, Novo Nordisk Hungary
Novo Nordisk Hungary GM Zsolt Jozsa highlights the growing prevalence of diabetes in Hungary, the gap in treatment…
Interview: Costas Piliounis – Vice President, Novo Nordisk Italy
Dr. Costas Piliounis discusses the importance of containing diabetes, the dampening effects budget ceilings have on…
Interview: Mohamed El Dababy – Vice President & General Manager, Novo…
In Egypt’s diverse marketplace, Novo Nordisk is bringing care to patients across the country with a range of…
Interview: Sanne Groenemeijer – General Manager, Novo Nordisk, the…
In a market under strong pressures to contain costs, launching innovative products in a crowded market can be a…
Interview: Şebnem Avşar Tuna – General Manager, Novo Nordisk Turkey
Novo Nordisk Turkey has taken a degree of leadership by working to facilitate and encourage cooperation and…
Novo Nordisk Mexico – Erik Bakker, Market Access and Public Affairs…
Novo Nordisk’s market access and public affairs director discusses the state of diabetes management in Mexico,…
Novo Nordisk – Jean-Paul Digy, Corporate Vice President, Africa Region
The corporate vice president for the Africa region of the multinational at the forefront of the fight against…
Novo Nordisk Algeria – Peter Ulvskjold, General Manager
The new country manager of the multinational at the forefront of the fight against diabetes in Algeria sheds…
Novo Nordisk – Kåre Schultz, Global President and COO
The global COO of the multinational at the forefront of the fight against diabetes explains why the Algerian…
Novo Nordisk Malaysia – Noha Shawky, General Manager
Novo Nordisk Malaysia’s general manager shares the ongoing fight to cure diabetes and talks about the necessity…
Interview: Erik Lommerde, General Manager, Novo Nordisk, Spain
PharmaBoardroom first interviewed Erik Lommerde as general manager of Novo Nordisk Netherlands four years ago. In…
Interview: Krzysztof Kozik, General Manager, Novo Nordisk, Poland
In a world where diabetes increasingly more common, Poland has not been spared, with 2.5 million diabetic patients…
Interview: Christine Marie D. Rosal, Country Manager, Novo Nordisk…
Christine Marie D. Rosal, Country Manager of Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals (Philippines) gives a startling image of…
Interview with Carlos Manuel González Parra, General Manager, Novo Nordisk…
Carlos Manuel González Parra discusses the progress Novo Nordisk has made as a newcomer to the Colombian market…
Interview: Lars Rebien Sørensen – Global CEO, Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Rebien Sørensen discusses the company’s commitment to curing diabetes, his own…
Interview with Lars Rebien Sørensen, CEO, Novo Nordisk
As Novo Nordisk is celebrating its 90 year anniversary this year, may you please begin this interview by discussing…
Interview with Owen Treacy, Country Manager, Novo Nordisk – Ireland
Novo Nordisk is primarily known as the premier global diabetes player—so let us begin by examining the realities…
Interview with Peter Soelberg, Managing Director, Novo Nordisk – Australia
Can you start by commenting on the state of diabetes in Australia at present? According to 2011 statistics nearly…
Interview with Fabrice Claisse, , Novo Nordisk – Belgium
Looking into your background, we see that you have developed your career in the local industry’s top 3…
Interview with Şebnem Tuna, General Manager, Novo Nordisk Turkey
Would you like to provide our international readers with a brief introduction into Novo Nordisk’s Turkish…
Interview with Timothy Kedijang, General Manager, Novo Nordisk South Africa
The story of Novo Nordisk South Africa began in 1959 in Johannesburg. It was among the first affiliates outside of…
Interview with Bogdan Viasu, General Manager, Novo Nordisk Romania
You have become the head of Novo Nordisk’s operations in Romania in March 2008. Can you first give our…
Interview with Gustavo Mizraje, General Manager, Novo Nordisk Brazil
Diabetes affects an estimated 6 million Brazilians, a figure which is expected to double by 2025, in line with many…
Interview with Lorenzo Mastromonaco, Vice President, Novo Nordisk Italy
Novo Nordisk is one of the very few pharmaceutical multinationals that has such a strong focus on one therapeutic…
Interview with Erik Lommerde, General Manager, Novo Nordisk BV
Coincidentally, our meeting today comes two days after World Diabetes Day. How was this day commemorated in the…
Interview with Melvin Oscar D'souza, Managing Director, Novo Nordisk India…
Novo Nordisk seems somewhat of an exception to the MNCs that recently entered India, as it already set up its HQ in…
Interview with Melvin Oscar D’souza, Managing Director, Novo Nordisk India…
Novo Nordisk seems somewhat of an exception to the MNCs that recently entered India, as it already set up its HQ in…
Interview with Krisja Vermeylen, Vice President Novo Nordisk France &…
Novo Nordisk just celebrated 50 years in France; what have been some of the more recent events that have marked the…
Interview with Joel Duran Chavez, Marketing Director, Novo Nordisk Mexico
Mexico is number one in child obesity and number two in adult obesity in the world. This is one of the reasons that…
Interview with Hans Duijf, General Manager, Novo Nordisk Thailand
Novo Nordisk is one of the very few pharmaceutical multinationals that have a strong focus on one therapeutic area.…
Interview with Ronald Christie, VP Interntaional Operations – General…
We found a Capital Markets Day presentation from Novo Nordisk that talked about the “rule of halves”…
Interview with Flavio Devoto, General Manager, Novo Nordisk Argentina
Novo Nordisk’s largest insulin production facility outside of Denmark is in Latin America, in Brazil. Can you…
Interview with Morten Vaupel, General Manager, Novo Nordisk Hungary
We understand that you have been with Novo Nordisk for quite a while already. In the past decade, you also did not…
Interview with Predrag Radošević, General Manager, Novo Nordisk (Serbia)
Novo Nordisk has a long history in Serbia compared to many of the other multinational companies present in the…
Interview with Sergei Smirnov, Head of Representitive Office, Novo Nordisk…
Novo Nordisk announced last year the development of an insulin plant in the Kaluga region not far from Moscow. What…
Interview with Wojciech Kowalski, General Manager, Novo Nordisk Pharma Sp. z.o.o
Apart from Poland being a 40 million population market, with double digit growth, Mr. Kuczynski of Pierre Fabre was…
Interview with Viggo Birch, Managing Director UK and Vice President Europe, Novo…
This year’s Q1 results for Novo Nordisk were extremely positive with a 23% increase in profit. While this growth…
Interview with Rex Laroza, Country Manager, Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals…
Given that Asia is leading growth in the global pharmaceutical market, how is Novo Nordisk represented in the…
Interview with Eric Wang, General Manager, Novo Nordisk Taiwan
Novo Nordisk is one of the few pharmaceutical multinationals focused in one key therapeutic area. Perhaps you could…
Interview with Martin Soeters, President, Novo Nordisk Europe
Many companies that are focused in the diabetes segment have recognised the need to strengthen their operations in…
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