Ronnie Miller is the President and CEO of Hoffmann-La Roche Limited (Roche Canada). In this role, Ronnie is responsible for the strategic direction, profitability and operations of the pharmaceuticals division in Canada.

Ronnie has more than 30 years of extensive and varied experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He began his career in the United Kingdom as a sales representative, and accepted a series of progressive positions including Sales Management, Product Management, Business Unit Director and National Sales Manager.

Since joining Roche in 1988, Ronnie has held a held a number of positions of increasing importance, including National Sales Manager in the United Kingdom, International Product Manager in Switzerland, Marketing Director and Deputy Divisional Director of the Pharmaceutical Division in Japan, Xenical global task force leader, and Divisional Director of Pharmaceuticals in the United Kingdom. He was appointed President and CEO of Roche Pharmaceuticals in Canada in April 2000.

Ronnie Miller is Chair of the Industry Oncology Working Group (IOWG) and member of the Board of Directors of Rx&D, the national association representing Canada's research-based pharmaceutical companies. He was Chair of the Board of Directors of Rx&D from November 2007 to November 2008 and served two subsequent terms as Past Chair. Prior to becoming Rx&D Board Chair, he served on several industry committees including Public Affairs, and Stakeholder Relations and was Chair of the Rx&D Federal Affairs/FPT Relations Standing Committee.

Outside Rx&D, Ronnie is a member of the Swiss Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the University Health Network Research Committee, and sits on the Strategic Governance Board of GS1 Canada.

Ronnie holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Geography from Glasgow University.

Michael has been in the pharmaceutical business for over 30 years and has worked for a number of primary care and specialty based companies. His experience spans not only Sales and Marketing but also includes time spent in New Business Development, Training and Customer Relationship Management.

He was appointed President of Astellas Pharma Canada, Inc. in July 2010 and is active in Rx&D. He is a member of their Board of Directors and is Chair of the Prairies Committee.

Michael was inducted into the Canadian Healthcare Marketing Hall of Fame in 2010.

He is an avid, but not very accomplished golfer and enjoys both cooking and wine tasting. He has been married to his friend and confidant, Jo-Anne for 34 years and has two grown up daughters and four granddogs.

Mike's career in Pharmaceuticals spans more than 25 years. Mike began his career with Schering Canada in which he was provided many Sales & Marketing assignments. Later Mike joined Roche Canada and integrated the Genentech business into Roche and in 1997 was hired by Byk Canada to initiate and build up the new commercial organization.

During the early years at Byk, the commercial organization grew significantly under Mike's leadership. In 2004, Mike was promoted to General Manager, Altana Netherlands, whereby he spent the last 7 years successfully transforming the Dutch business. In 2011, Mike was asked to return to Canada to become President of Nycomed Canada.

Today Nycomed Canada Inc. is headquartered in Oakville, Ontario.

The company has over 165 employees across the country. Nycomed has been named a Top 100 Employer in Canada by Maclean's magazine for five consecutive years and was Top 50 in the GTA for 2009, named in the Top 3 Best Workplaces in Canada for 2008 by the Great Place to Work Institute Canada, ranked 16th in 2009 and 2010 and now ranks at #7 for 2011.

Mike graduated from the University of Guelph, with a degree in Economics.

Mike lives in Oakville with his wife Elisabeth. They have 2 children, both attending Canadian universities at this time.

Allen Van der Wee was named Vice-President, Sales in April 2007. Prior to that he was Vice-President, Strategic Business Solutions, and joined the Pfizer Canada Leadership Team in June 2004.

He joined Pfizer Canada in 2000 in conjunction with Pfizer's acquisition of Warner-Lambert, assuming the position of Director of Sales for the Quebec Region. In 2003, he added the Atlantic Region to his Sales responsibilities. He has been a key player on several important company initiatives in recent years, including Field Force Effectiveness, the creation of the Cardiovascular Resource Division and the Cardiovascular Leadership Team. Since joining the PCLT, Allen has been one of the sponsors on the Renaissance Project and the FOCUS Project.

Allen holds a Diploma in Business Administration and a BSc in Biochemistry, both from McGill University in Montreal. The first five years of his career were in the Sales division of Warner-Lambert Canada's Parke-Davis pharmaceuticals business. He then spent two years in marketing and one year as Manager, Customer Satisfaction. In 1994 he became a member of the Parke-Davis Canada Management Team as Director of Precision Marketing. One year later he became the National Sales Director.

In the community, Allen has been soccer coach for many years and has been involved with the West Island Palliative Care Residence Foundation and still remains very active within the community.

Allen is married and is the father of 2 daughters. He enjoys playing golf and skiing.

Mark Findlay is the Vice President, Access and External Relations at AstraZeneca Canada Inc., one of Canada's research-based pharmaceutical companies. In this role, Mark leads the overall management of reimbursement and market access for AstraZeneca, with the goal of providing access of AZ products to patients.

Having joined AstraZeneca in 2005, he brings extensive experience to this role based on his most recent position as External Relations Director, Ontario, Quebec and Private Payers as well as previous leadership roles in both sales & marketing. Mark "carried the bag" as a Pharma Sales Representative in Windsor, ON.

Mark graduated from McMaster University with an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in BioChemistry. Mark, his wife Jackie and their two children reside in Burlington, Ontario.

Benoit Gravel began his career as an economist at Hydro-Québec, and as a marketer at Via Rail. He joined the pharmaceutical industry 23 years ago at Rhône-Poulenc as Director, Corporate Planning. He spent 3 years in Paris in Business Development and returned to Canada as Vice-President, External Affairs, Vice-President Finance and President. Following a merger, he was appointed Vice-President, Commercial Affairs, at Aventis. After a merger with Sanofi, he held several senior commercial positions and is currently Vice-President, Diabetes & Ethical Patient-Centered Unit at Sanofi. Benoit studied economics at the University of Montreal. He loves downhill skiing. He is married and has three sons.

Robin has over 18 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical industry and joined LEO Pharma in 2010 as the Vice President of Sales & Marketing. In this role he is responsible for leading a high performing sales and marketing team to exceed targets and for implementing the LEO mission of helping people achieve healthy skin.

Prior to LEO, Robin spent 12 years at Roche as a director in several specialty markets including Oncology, Virology and Nephrology. He also developed and implemented the Key Account Management strategy.

Robin holds a Bsc. from the University Of Waterloo. He lives in Toronto with his wife Julija and their 3 children.

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Graduated from Ryerson University with a Bachelor's of Business Management Degree majoring in Marketing Management and completed the Queen's Executive Program - 2011.

31 years of experience, primarily in the Medical Equipment, Diagnostics and Pharmaceutical field in Sales, Product Management, Business Unit Manager, District Sales Management, National Sales Manager and most recent Senior Director, Sales for Lundbeck Canada Inc managing District Sales Manager, the Training Department and the Customer Support Centre.

Ashok has been a speaker on various topics in pharmaceutical marketing and sales and also contributed to some publications in the past 6 years. Ashok brings over 28 years of experience of Global Pharmaceutical marketing. He is currently Vice President Marketing and Sales with Pediapharm Inc. He worked with Abbott Pharmaceuticals for 12 years, among various roles as Commercial Director for Pacific, Asia, Australia and Africa with Abbott International and Canadian Market in marketing, sales, business development, health communication and pharmacy programs. He also worked with IMS Americas as Director, National Accounts managing retail and wholesale accounts, prior to IMS and Abbott, he also worked in International markets as General Manager, Sales Manager and Group Product Manager with Johnson and Johnson and Parke Davis. He has successfully launched several new products in Canada and International markets in primary care, specialty, devises and OTC area. Ashok has completed his Masters degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences and MBA. Ashok is also President of Thyroid Federation International, a global organization.

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Ian has had an extensive career in both the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors in Europe and North America. He has worked as a senior manager in three major pharmaceutical companies, GSK, J&J and AstraZeneca. As VP Sales & Marketing at AZ he was responsible for the launch of three major products that all went on to achieve sales in excess of $1billion.

He has also been the CEO of four biotech companies, two as founder, based in Europe and North America. One of these companies was recently purchased by Amgen, for a deal value in excess of $1 billion.

Ian has had responsibility in all areas of the biopharmaceutical industry, from drug discovery, research and development, through clinical trials, regulatory filings to sales and marketing and financings. As General Manager for Quintiles Canada he is able to bring considerable expertise to bear on all aspects of product promotion and sales growth. He is an active member of Rx&D.

John Cieslowski has spent over 25 years in the Canadian Healthcare Market. His almost 20 years in the Pharmaceutical Industry began with Syntex prior to its acquisition by Hoffmann-La Roche. During his career, he has held a broad range of senior roles in sales, marketing and operations in a wide range of therapeutic categories.

Prior to joining Shoppers Drug Mart, John spent 5 years as Vice President of Philips Healthcare Canada responsible for the Canadian Business Unit in the very complex Diagnostic Imaging and Healthcare IT hospital market.

As President of SDM Specialty Health Network, John is responsible for the strategic leadership and management of SDM’s Specialty Healthcare business across the entire 1250 store pharmacy network.

Steven Rosen, MBA is Canada’s Sales Leadership Coach and the founder of STAR Results.

Steven helps companies transform sales managers into great sales coaches. He works with sales executives to develop high performance sales organizations. Through his Focused Leadership Coaching Steven has helped his clients achieve greater personal and professional success.

Steven is an authority in the area of Sales Management and has authored many articles in the area of sales management coaching and on driving sales performance.

For more information on how you can improve your personal and professional success, contact Steven @ steven@staresults.com, call 905-737-4548 or visit, http://www.starresults.com

Do you know how to move hcp’s from “uninterested” to “on board”?

Jill Donahue, HBa, MadEd, author of PERSUASION Rx: How to Influence Ethically is passionate about learning and teaching a better way to influence in healthcare. She gets goose bumps when she sees light bulbs turn on and hears sighs of relief from pharma associates who say:

“A really fantastic session Jill, thank you so much for showing us "there is a better way!" I was sincerely hoping that it was the case!”

Through her energizing keynotes, coaching and consulting, she brings the ah-ha’s to pharma associates and healthcare professionals on how to influence others. From ‘uninterested’ to ‘on board’ she has tips for every step of the way!

And who is she above all else? Mother of 3 wonderful girls who inspire her to live her best life.

As Vice-President, Customer Innovation Business Unit for Merck in Canada, Mr. Sauvageau is a member of the Executive Management Team of one of the country’s leading research-based pharmaceutical companies. Through 25 years of professional experience within the pharmaceutical industry, Christian Sauvageau has gained expertise in sales management, business development and marketing in Canada and Internationally.

Mr. Sauvageau was appointed Vice-President of Customer Innovation in December 2009. In this role, he oversees a team of 45, develops commercial relationships, consults with customers on health care, improves multi-channel and networking capabilities, and ensures that financial targets are met.

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