Patrick has 15 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech sector, firstly with Phairson Medical, a protein therapeutics company, and then with Inpharmatica, a chemogenomics and discovery company. He also has previous financial market experience at Arthur Andersen in London, where Patrick qualified as a Chartered Accountant. Patrick brings extensive M&A, MBO and LBO experience, and was advisor on five IPOs on LSE and NYSE. Patrick Joined SEP in March 2007 and became CEO in December 2010.

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Tim is a pharmacist with more than 20 years’ experience at GlaxoSmithKline in production management, technical transfers, third party contractor management and global programme management. Most recently he was Director New Product Supply and successfully led the introduction of several complex respiratory device products to US, Japanese and EU markets. Prior to this he played a key role in the merger of Glaxo and SB, working with the FTC to fulfil the manufacturing obligations and leading approximately 8,000 technical transfers to enable multiple site closures. Tim joined SEP in October 2007.

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Rakesh has nearly 15 years’ experience within the pharmaceutical industry in a wide variety of operational, marketing and managerial positions. Prior to joining SEP he spent five years at Takeda as EU Head of Marketing for Speciality Products, after earlier roles in business and corporate development and European strategic marketing. Before that he worked at Pfizer/Pharmacia/Pharmacia & Upjohn in various sales and marketing roles. Rakesh joined SEP in January 2009.

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Benoit has more than 25 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He spent 15 years with Merck Sharp & Dohm in a broad variety of operational, marketing and managerial positions, with increasing responsibilities both in France and the US. Benoit left MSD in 2002 to join Fournier Pharma as a member of the executive committee and VP Business Development and Global Marketing. Shortly afterwards, he was appointed Managing Director for France. Benoit joined Pharmion France as MD in 2006 and left in 2008 when the company was sold. Benoit joined SEP in September 2008.

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Ton has 23 years’ experience in the international pharmaceutical and medical device industry. After studying medicine, he started his career in sales and marketing at Allergan pharmaceuticals, where he worked for 12 years. Ton then worked for a medical device wholesaler and homecare company in Germany and became General Manager. In 2003, Ton started his own company as a strategic consultant. In 2006, he set up the German subsidiary of a French speciality pharmaceutical and medical device company as Managing Director. Ton joined SEP in January 2010.

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