Speaker

Mohamed Kassem

Engineering Director & New Product Introduction Manager “CDMO”, Servier

With over 17 years of experience, Mohamed Kassem is a skilled engineering and product management professional specializing in project leadership, maintenance optimization, and new product introduction in the pharmaceutical and industrial sectors. As Engineering Director and New Product Introduction Manager, he excels in coordinating cross-functional teams, improving operational efficiency, and managing product lifecycles from development to launch. His technical expertise, paired with strategic insights from prior roles in sales and product management, enables him to drive both innovation and operational success effectively.

Company

Servier

Founded to serve health, Servier is a global group governed by a Foundation that aspires to have a meaningful social impact, both for patients and for a sustainable world. With its unique governance model, it can fully serve its vocation with a long-term vision: being committed to therapeutic progress to serve patient needs. The 21,900 employees of the Group are committed to this shared vocation, a source of inspiration every day. As a world leader in cardiology, Servier's ambition is to become a focused and innovative player in oncology by targeting hard-to-treat cancers. That is why the Group allocates over 70% of its R&D budget to developing targeted and innovative therapies in oncology. Neuroscience and immuno-inflammatory diseases are the future growth drivers. In these areas, Servier is focused on a limited number of diseases in which accurate patient profiling makes it possible to offer a targeted therapeutic response through precision medicine. To promote access to quality care for all at a lower cost, the Group also offers a range of quality generic drugs covering most pathologies, relying on strong brands in France, Eastern Europe, Brazil and Nigeria. In all these areas, the Group includes the patient voice at each stage of the life cycle of a medicine. Headquartered in France, Servier relies on a strong geographical footprint in over 150 countries and achieved a revenue of €5.3 billion in 2023.