Speakers

Steven H. Collis is Chairman, President and CEO of AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a global healthcare solutions leader, currently ranked No.10 on the Fortune 500. He was elected president and CEO in 2011 and chairman in 2016. Under Mr. Collis’ leadership, AmerisourceBergen has experienced tremendous financial growth. The company’s annual revenue has jumped more than 80% during Mr. Collis’ tenure as CEO and its number of employees has risen to 21,000, with offices in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Through strategic investments and acquisitions, the company has expanded its breadth of services and solutions resulting in unprecedented customer partnerships, global reach and deep expertise that is shaping healthcare delivery. Specifically, AmerisourceBergen’s agreement with Walgreens Boots Alliance in 2013 marked an industry first—with a national pharmacy chain turning over all its pharmaceutical distribution to a wholesaler and collaborating on a global basis for generic product sourcing. The company’s 2015 acquisition of MWI Veterinary Supply further reflect AmerisourceBergen’s ability to deliver value in diverse aspects of patient care and growing markets. As a result, the Wall Street Journal named Mr. Collis as the best performing chief executive in the Philadelphia region for 2015, and Barron’s ranked AmerisourceBergen two years in a row as No. 1 on their list of the 500 top performing companies.

Mr. Collis has additionally forged a clear path in fulfilling AmerisourceBergen’s purpose of being united in our responsibility to create healthier futures. He spearheaded the creation of the AmerisourceBergen Foundation, the company’s first enterprise-wide, nonprofit charitable organization, which supports health-related causes that enrich the global community. Under his leadership, the company’s commitment to diversity and inclusion continue to be recognized, with AmerisourceBergen being named a DiversityInc Noteworthy Company in 2017, 2018 and 2019. The company was also honored by the Women's Forum of New York as a leading company for gender balance on its board of directors.
Mr. Collis’ career with AmerisourceBergen spans more than two decades and includes time leading the company’s specialty and wholesale distribution and related services businesses. He helped found the former Specialty Group business in 1994 and grew it into the market leader in specialty pharmaceutical distribution and product commercialization services.

Mr. Collis earned a Bachelor of Commerce with Honors degree from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. In addition to serving as chairman of AmerisourceBergen’s board of directors, he serves on the board of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers. Mr. Collis is a founding vice chairman of the American Cancer Society’s CEOs Against Cancer Pennsylvania chapter and serves on the Board of Governors for the American Red Cross.

Martin is the Deputy Director General for the European Healthcare Distribution Association (GIRP). Martin advises the Association on the matrix of legal issues impacting upon the interests of the pharmaceutical full-line wholesale sector in Europe. He also represents the association externally and in this respect works with the European institutions such as the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council as well as with other European and international organisations such as the Council of Europe and the WHO. Another important part of his work consists of liaising with European stakeholder associations and national health authorities.

Markus has extensive experience working on large-scale transformations and corporate strategy, as well as functional areas such as operations and commercial for the healthcare industry across Australia, Europe, and the United States. He serves clients across the healthcare, health- insurance, pharmaceutical, and logistics industries, as well as financial investors.
Markus’s recent projects include performance transformation at statutory health insurers and wholesalers, operating-model redesign for global pharmacos, and corporate-strategy and portfolio work for financial investors.
Before joining McKinsey in 2013, Markus was a researcher at the RWTH Aachen University, where his work focused on fluid dynamics and he published more than 20 scientific articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

M.Pol.Sc
Finnish citizen

Tuula Lehto has been working at Oriola Group since October 2017 and she has been a member of the Oriola Management Team as of 1 July 2018. Before joining Oriola, she worked as Senior Consultant at communications agency Pohjoisranta Burson-Marsteller in 2011–2017. Earlier Lehto has been working in corporate communications at different organisations and roles in companies such as Finnish Slot Machine Association, Yara International, Kemira GrowHow Oyj and Veikkaus.

João Almeida Lopes is Chairman of the Board of APIFARMA – Associação Portuguesa da Indústria Farmacêutica (Portuguese Pharmaceutical Industry Association) since 2007, and in 2014 became Vice-president of CIP - Confederação Empresarial de Portugal (Portuguese Business Confederation) where has streamlined the activity of the Strategic Health Council;
He has a graduation in Finance, from Instituto Superior de Economia and a diversified and strong professional experience. Between 1996 and 2011 he was Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the Board of IBET – Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (private non profit Biotechnology Research Organisation); Since 1990 he is General Director and Chairman of Grupo Medinfar (Portuguese Pharmaceutical Company) and, since 2008, Chairman of the Board of Genibet Biopharmaceuticals, SA (Biopharmaceutical Contract Manufacturing Organization).

Magnus Meier is the Global Head of the Wholesale Distribution Industry Business Unit. Representing the industry inside and outside of SAP he works to provide industry thought leadership, portfolio direction and the global go to market strategy.
Magnus started with SAP in 1998 and acquired extensive cross industry, solution, services and support knowledge throughout his career. He has held a variety of positions internationally in SAP from consultant in Germany, to Manager of Industry Business Development teams in Japan and the U.S..
Magnus has a Master’s degree in economics from the Gerhard Mercator University in Duisburg with a special focus on East-Asia. He lives currently in the Chicago suburbs.

Ema Paulino completed her degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon in 2001, and a postgraduate degree in Community Pharmacy in 2003 from the same institution. She also holds a postgraduate degree in Leadership from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (2012), in Health Management from the Portuguese National School of Public Health (2014) and completed an Executive Program on Value Measurement for Health Care from the Harvard Business School in 2015.
Ema Paulino is a practising pharmacist at her own community pharmacy in Portugal. She was Director of Projects and Services at Holon from 2011 until 2018, and is currently General Manager at Ezfy, a company that engages community pharmacies in the implementation of Patient Support Programmes.
She is President of the Portuguese National Association of Pharmacies (ANF) and was a member of the National Board of the Portuguese Pharmaceutical Society (PPS) until June 2021. Previously, she was President of the South and Autonomous Region at PPS from 2013 until 2018, and a member of the Board of the National Association of Pharmacies between 2003 and 2012.
She represents ANF at various international groups and organisations such as the Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union (PGEU) and the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP).
Ema is Immediate past-Professional Secretary of FIP, and thus a member of its Executive Committee and Bureau until September 2021. Ema has previously been Chairperson and Project Coordinator of the Young Pharmacists' Group, a member of the FIP Programme Committee, and Secretary of the Community Pharmacy Section.
Ema is currently the Chairperson of the Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe (PCNE), and a member of the Board of the International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG).
Ema is a member of the Global Health Workforce Network’s Gender Equity Hub, an action-oriented community that aims to connect the dots across contexts and catapult progress in the gender-transformative approaches to health workforce, coordinated by the World Health Organization and Women in Global Health.
She was primary researcher in an international collaboration on identification of drug related problems in discharged patients, under the umbrella of the Stevenshof Institute for Pharmacy Practice Research (SIR) and European Society of Clinical Pharmacy (ESCP), The Netherlands, having won the Health Base Foundation Poster Award at the 30th ESCP Conference in Antwerp, Belgium, in 2001, for the poster and oral communication “Drug related problems among patients discharged from hospital”. Ema also conducted research on facilitators of practice change in community pharmacy.
Ema’s leadership positions include Secretary General and Permanent Officer in The Netherlands for the European Pharmaceutical Students’ Association (EPSA) 2000-2001, President of the Portuguese Pharmacy Students’ Association (APEF) 1999-2000, Chairperson of Health Information, Promotion and Education Working Group of the local Students’ Association 1998-2000, Member of the National Department of Health Information, Promotion and Education of APEF 1998-1999, Member of the Representative Assembly of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Lisbon 1997-2000, and Vice –President of the High school Students’ Association 1992-1994.

Torsten Roos is General Manager at INSIGHT Health, the German based information and big data provider. He is member of the executive board and responsible for the expansion of international data panels, strategic alliances with data suppliers/partners and the development of new data strategies.
Before taking over this responsibility, he joined the former NDC Health in 2000 and implemented the company`s product portfolio for wholesalers and pharmacies. Till 2008 he served INSIGHT Health as director data source in Germany. During the international expansion of INSIGHT Health in the last years, Torsten established the company as strategic partner for wholesaler, retailers and pharmaceutical traders in Europe and managed the expansion in new data panels in several European countries.
Due to his functions and career, Torsten is an expert in Health Care Data and digital data contents. Torsten studied social science at Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen and University RheinMain, Wiesbaden and holds an MBA of the FOM University, Essen.

Margaritis Schinas started his professional career path as a member of the cabinet to Commissioners Matutes and Oreja in 1993. In 1999 he became Deputy Head of Cabinet to Commission Vice-President Loyola de Palacio, where he was responsible for Transport, Energy and Relations with the European Parliament. Under Commissioner Markos Kyprianou he became Head of Cabinet for Health and Consumer Protection in 2004, before holding a term as Member of the Europe Parliament from 2007 to 2009. In the period from 2010 to 2013 he held the position of Deputy Head of the Bureau of the European Policy Advisers within the European Commission and became the Resident Director in Athens as Head of Greece Operations afterwards. In 2014 Margaritis Schinas was voted as Chief Spokesperson of the EU Commission, which was followed by his position as Deputy Director-General for Communication. Since 2019 he has been the EU Commission`s Vice President for Promoting our European Way of Life aiming to create a European Security Union by ensuring coherence of the external and internal dimensions of security.

Diogo Serras Lopes was born in Lisbon, in 1975.
With a degree in Economics by the Business School of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, he also attended the Masters in Political Sciences at the Instituto Superior das Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. He’s also, since 2005, CFA Charterholder (CFA Institute). He began his professional path in 1998, as a journalist at the Economia Pura Magazine, and, from 1999 to 2014, also worked in asset management in a series of private institutions such as MC Fundos, Santander Asset Management and Banco Best.
From May 2014 to November 2015, he worked in the Regulatory Policy and International Affairs Department at Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários (Portuguese Securities Market Commission).
From December 2015 to August 2017, he was also adviser to the Secretary of State Assistant to the Prime Minister and from August 2017 to April 2019, he was appointed adviser for economical affairs to the Prime-Minister, in the first Government of Prime Minister Costa.
From April 2019 to September 2020, he was Vice President at the Central Administration of the Health System (ACSS).