Karim Benjelloun

• Twelve years of hands-on, senior business strategy and brand marketing consulting services
• Previously a Director of the Business Strategy Group at Braun Consulting, responsible for development and implementation of growth strategies primarily for pharmaceutical companies
• Experience covers product launch and optimization strategies and activities, organizational alignment, market penetration and expansion initiatives, and medical education planning
• Co-leader of Braun’s Health Care practice with oversight of all supporting business development and marketing activities
• A former Associate at The Center for Strategy Research with a specialization on customer segmentation and product development strategies
• MBA from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania

Ed Jarbath

• Over fifteen years of pharmaceutical industry experience
• Previously Director of Oncology Commercial Development with Pharmacia Corporation, and responsible for COX-2 inhibition as a platform for cancer treatment and prevention
• Former Associate Director for worldwide marketing for Celebrex, responsible for product launch (across eighteen countries) and medical communication including the creation of a groundbreaking platform for the advancement of treatment and education in arthritis and pain for the global medical community
• Has held sales, finance, market research, and marketing positions with GlaxoSmithKline and Monsanto’s Searle Pharmaceutical business unit
• MBA from the McColl School of Business at Queens University, Charlotte, NC
• M.S. technology management from The Wharton School and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of The University of Pennsylvania

Andrew Whelton, MD

• Professor of Medicine (Adjunct), The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
• Former Director of The Clinical Division of Nephrology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• Long term faculty member of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and served as Executive Vice President of the Finch University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School
• Respected thought leader, accomplished speaker and author of more than 350 scientific articles and book chapters in leading medical publications
• Member of numerous scientific and academic organizations and past President of The American College of Clinical Pharmacology
• Founding member of the American Board of Clinical Pharmacology, former Chairman of the Commission on Kidney Disease of the State of Maryland and Special Government Officer consultant for the U.S.FDA

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