Praveen Advani, Janssen Pharmaceuticals
Praveen Advani, Commercial Insights & Strategy Lead – US Diabetes, Janssen Pharmaceuticals
Praveen Advani has more than 18 years of experience leading US & Global market research efforts for in-line brands & new products in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Praveen is currently the Commercial Insights & Strategy Lead – US Diabetes at Janssen Pharmaceuticals. In this role, Praveen is responsible to lead the commercial excellence efforts (market research, forecasting, advanced analytics and competitive intelligence) for Invokana in the US.
Praveen has been instrumental in successfully leading global market research teams for several major global launches, most recently as the Executive Director for WW Immuno-Oncology at Bristol-Myers Squibb where he was responsible for leading all the US and International market research efforts to help successfully launch one of the fastest growing brands in the industry – Opdivo. Prior to that, he has successfully led the market research efforts for Januvia/Janumet (Diabetes, Merck) and Lantus (Diabetes, Aventis/Sanofi)
Praveen holds a MBA from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management and a Bachelors degree in Engineering from the University of Pune, India.
Lisa Courtade, Merck
Lisa Courtade, Executive Director, Global Customer & Brand Insights, Merck
A strategic, solutions oriented business leader with over 20 years of success in delivering customer insights that drive business results, Lisa has a passion for the healthcare industry and for the patients we serve. Lisa Courtade currently leads executional excellence and the transformation of insights generation at Merck as the Executive Director of Global Market Research Excellence. In this role, she and her team are responsible for driving business results and creating customer value by delivering value based innovation. Lisa was an early adopter of engaging patients in marketing research and leveraging CPG methodologies in the pharma space which contributed to receipt of the ARF’s David Ogilvy Award for creative use of insights in celebrate breakthrough moments when creative inspiration and research insights come together to produce a spectacular advertising campaign.
Lisa lives her passion for shaping the future of the industry by serving on the Marketing Research Institute International Board (MRII) as Chair of the Pharma Curriculum Committee and as an Advisory Board & Steering Committee member for the University of Georgia’s Masters in Marketing Research program, where she also serves as an alumni mentor. Lisa is an active member of the Healthcare Businesswoman’s Association (HBA) where she chaired Career Development and served as the first Global Research Director. In 2013 Lisa was awarded the PMRG’s prestigious R.R. Fordyce Award for exemplary leadership, service and dedication to the healthcare industry and the healthcare market research community.
Sandipa Dublish, Alexion Pharmaceuticals
Sandipa Dublish, Executive Director, Commercial Insights, Alexion Pharmaceuticals
Sandipa Dublish heads the worldwide market research team at Alexion – a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapies for life threatening ultra-rare diseases. In this role she has focused on developing innovative market research approaches, specifically designed to get maximum insights in the ultra-rare disease landscape. Sandipa has utilized Big Data – alongside qualitative research to get thick descriptions of physician and patient behavior. Sandipa is now busy expanding the Alexion market research team around the globe, as well as building a New Products Commercial Assessment team at the US headquarters.
Sandipa has extensive experience in Global launch planning and life cycle assessment. She has launched three oncology drugs – Halaven, Ixempra, and Sprycel.
Sandipa holds a PhD. in Marketing from Florida International University, Miami.
Stuart Greenberg, Bayer
Stuart Greenberg, Deputy Director, Global/Oncology Market Research, Bayer
Dr. Stuart E. Greenberg is currently Deputy Director, Global / Oncology Market Research at Bayer. His responsibilities include qualitative and quantitative primary research, secondary research, forecasting and market size and structure analysis. In the past he has been on the Global Market Research teams of Pfizer, Pharmacia, Searle, Roche Diagnostics and Boehringer Mannheim. Stuart has managed market research on cancer treatment and prevention drugs, blood glucose monitors, point of care testing equipment and ophthalmic instruments. Stuart earned his undergraduate degree from Lafayette College and achieved a Masters and PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Virginia Tech.
Anne Hale, Pfizer
Anne Hale, Business Analytics and Insights NA Lead, Pfizer
Dr. Hale has been with Pfizer’s market analytics group for 10 years. In addition to this role, she also leads the Center of Excellence for HCPs, which is tasked with identifying innovative, efficient research solutions for business issues and decisions relating to our physician customers. She has held several other positions within Pfizer, including the Market Analytics Team Leader for Urology/Respiratory brands, as well as Global Market Analytics Team Leader for New Product Development for a wide range of therapeutic areas.
Prior to joining Pfizer, Anne was a Marketing Professor at both McGill University in Montreal and the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where she taught such courses as Marketing Management, Marketing Research, Business Statistics, Advertising, and Retail Management at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition, she also served a term as Dean of the Undergraduate Program at both McGill University and the University of Victoria, as well as teaching in the Executive Education Institutes of both universities.
Anne holds a Bachelor of Business Administration, Masters of Business Administration and a Doctorate in Marketing, specializing in quantitative methodology, all from the University of Texas at Austin.
Grace Samoil Reynolds, Celgene
Grace Samoil Reynolds, Head Market Insights, Celgene
Grace is Head of Market Insights at Celgene. She was previously at Johnson & Johnson where she joined in 1997 in the Market Research Department at Personal Products (consumer). She then progressed through roles in Market Research and Forecasting management in the Pharmaceutical Sector, including responsibility for Women’s Health, Urology and Pain at Ortho McNeil. Most recently, she was responsible for Market Research and Forecasting for the CNS and Pain Franchises in early Pharmaceutical Development. She also has experience in Oncology, Anemia, Metabolics, and Mens Health. Prior to J&J, Grace worked at Schering Plough and Colgate Palmolive, primarily in a Market Research capacity.
Grace earned her MBA at Rutgers University in New Jersey and holds a Bachelors in Chemistry from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Her passion is driving innovation and future thinking.
David Rosen, Purdue Pharmaceuticals
David Rosen, Executive Director, Forecasting, Analytics & Market Research, Purdue Pharmaceuticals
David currently leads the Forecasting, Analytics and Market Research group at Purdue. David began his career at Purdue 13 years ago as a Forecasting Manager but soon worked his way up into significant additional responsibilities. Prior to joining Purdue, he was a consultant at Easton Associates, an international consulting firm specializing in product and business strategy for companies in the life sciences industries. There David led opportunity assessments, due diligence analyses and go to market strategies for numerous novel pharmaceutical therapies, medical devices and diagnostic tests. David began his pharmaceutical career at Bristol Myers Squibb, where he was selected to participate in their management development program.
David holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Cornell University. In addition, he holds a Masters of Business Administration in Healthcare Finance and Strategy and a Masters of Public Health with honors, both from Yale University.
Jeet Uppal, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Jeet Uppal, Worldwide Lead – Global Market Research Capabilities, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Jeet is currently the Worldwide Lead, Market Research Capabilities & Enablement at Bristol-Myers Squibb. He leads a team of Researchers and his group responsibilities include managing tracking studies across all therapeutic areas and regions, social listening, MR agency management, knowledge management, training and best practice. Earlier he also established and led the oncology patient chart audit at BMS.
Prior to BMS, Jeet was the Global Group Director for Global Market Research at Zoetis. Jeet led a global team of market researchers and was responsible for Market Research across all species, regions and new products. Jeet joined Pfizer in 2003 as Director, Global Market Research. Pfizer spun off to Zoetis in 2012.
Jeet worked in Pfizer Human Pharmaceutical Opthalmology and Oncology disease areas. He led Pfizer Opthalmology’s market research US and worldwide teams for Glaucoma (Xalatan & Xalacom), Macular degeneration (Macugen) and New Products (Dry eye, DME, strategic evaluation of new disease areas and licensing/development opportunities). Prior to moving to Animal Health, Jeet worked in Pfizer’s Oncology TA and led market research for Oncology New Products and Business Development.
Prior to joining Pfizer, Jeet worked for 10 years in marketing and market research at premier companies including Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo International and Reliant Energy. Jeet started his market research career at Procter & Gamble, where he led core projects across P&G’s Paper, Home-Care and New Ventures business units. Jeet has led market research efforts on multiple billion dollar plus brands like Bounty, Luvs, Pampers, Cascade and Dawn, leading both established business and new ventures. Jeet led PepsiCo’s international market research for the core Pepsi brands. At Reliant Energy, Jeet led direct marketing and market research for the deregulating utility market.
Jeet received his MBA from University of Chicago with specialization in strategy and finance. He holds a Masters in Environmental Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.