People

Emilie Grand-Perret
Head of Business Unit Pharmaceuticals
Emilie joined Novartis in 2001. She started her career in her home country France and she has held different posts in sales and marketing across diverse therapeutic areas, including cardiology, pneumology, neurology. She has also experience from global strategic marketing at the headquarters of the company in Basel. Before joining the Czech bureau, Emilie was the Head of Marketing in Neuroscience in the USA. Emilie holds master degree in pharmaceutics from the Universite de Pharmacie de Besancon and in management from ESSEC Business School.
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Carolyn Sousa
Head of Business Unit Oncology
Carolyn began her career at Novartis Group in 2009 as Global Director of Corporate Strategy. She has experience in leading business positions in various therapeutic areas. Prior to coming to the Czech Republic, she led the Immunology & Dermatology franchise in Australia.
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Darren Glynn
Head NGSC Prague & NBS CONEXTS Region Europe, CZ Novartis
Darren Glynn accepted the role of Head of NGSC Prague at the end of 2019, in addition to his current position as NBS CONEXTS Region Europe. He has led diverse teams of customer-focused professionals, leading them to new levels of success, even in the highly competitive environment of global companies with rapidly changing operations.
Darren sees great potential at NGCS Prague due to his strategic location and especially due to the diversity of his employees and his primary goal is the further development of this company.
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Jiří Hanzlík
Country Head Sandoz s.r.o.
Jiří joined Sandoz in 2011 and has been in the lead since 2017. He also represents Sandoz in the Czech Association of Pharmaceutical Companies.
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Ivo Hlaváč
Country Public Affairs Head
Since 2018, he has represented Novartis in negotiations with state administration bodies. He is the chairman of the Health and Social Services Section of the Czech Chamber of Commerce. In the past, he held various positions at ČEZ. He also held the role of Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Czech Republic and Deputy Minister of the Environment of the Czech Republic
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Kateřina Nosek
Head of Communications
Kateřina joined Novartis in 2020. She is in charge of external and internal communication of the company, including the role of a spokesperson. She brought into her role rich experience in marketing and communication from leading Czech publishing houses, as well as from transnational retail companies.
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