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Press Clipping / Mar 22, 2018

Five Minutes with Marco Gil - DCAT WEEK’18

TKS, TeckoScienze Publisher, March 22, 2018

Marco Gil picture Hovione Senior VP Sales and Marketing

Marco Gil

Co-CEO, Senior VP - Sales & Marketing

Dr. Marco Gil has over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical CDMO industry. Since joining Hovione in 2007, he has held several senior management positions, including Director of R&D Process Chemistry and Site General Manager of Hovione’s New Jersey facility in the United States, where he led operations and strategic growth initiatives in one of the company’s key markets. Between 2017 and 2022, Dr. Marco Gil held leadership roles in Sales and Business Development, contributing to the expansion of Hovione’s integrated offering and global customer partnerships.

Since May 2022, he has served as Senior Vice-President of Sales & Marketing, leading Hovione’s global commercial strategy and market positioning, combining deep scientific expertise with extensive operational and business knowledge in the CDMO sector.

Dr. Marco Gil holds a degree in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Technical University of Lisbon.

 

 

 

 

PH: How is business right now?

Gil: Business is going well. The CDMO industry is quite busy, not just Hovione. It comes naturally from the good environment that investors found in the biotech sector overall, so there are many programmes ongoing in development. Business is well funded, there is a lot of activity and CDMOs benefit from that. Also, large pharma continues to divest manufacturing assets. The trends of recent years remain and I think they will continue for the next months. The off-patents business is growing too. There is a lot of interest in niche, specialised APIs with specific properties from a physical standpoint.

PH: What specialised technologies are you investing in?

Gil: Spray drying is one of our core technologies,...

 

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