OUR PHILOSOPHY


Meet our team

We believe in collaboration, cooperation, and partnerships as a key competitive success factor to face complexity, both for our clients and ourselves. We strive to redefine consulting to make it better for clients and for our consultants. By analysing every project we set up a team of experienced partners as well as the right value chain business  partners to tackle it.  

We target: 

  • the right seniority and expertise to satisfy customers needs; 
  • the freedom to purely focus on customers' needs, to be involved and ready for  the required execution, for our consultants.

Enrico Appiani

Partner

Biological Science – University of Milan - IT; ADP – London Business School UK

Medical Devices and Diagnostics EMEA Executive for Multinational companies; Country Manager of European branches and Business Units, all at Chiron Blood Testing, Novartis Dx, NPBI Srl (Fresenius).

General Management; Strategic Marketing, Business Development; IVD, Medical Device; Diagnostics and Biotech International Products Management.

Contributed both to the international business development and management for new products launch and the penetration of new markets with diversified functional responsibilities.

Gabriele Brusa

Partner

Business Administration – Bologna University - IT; ADP -London Business School UK

12 years as CEO, Chairman of various Board of Directors, 2 as COO, 11 years as VP-CFO, all at international and national Large Companies as well as SMEs (i.e.: Chiron Vaccines, Pierrel Farnaceutici -up to the IPO-, Officine Orto Rizzoli, Technogym USA) targeting innovation as a critical success factor in dynamic and competitive industries; Chairman and managing director of a Start-Up Incubator.

Investor in innovative companies, founder and Board Member of an IT-company listed in the STAR segment in Italy, entrepreneur, board member. Expert in Strategy and Operational Execution; M&A and Turnaround.

Eugene Durenard

Associate Partner

PhD in Mathematics from Harvard University - USA; DEA (MSc) in Mathematics from Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris

CEO of Hyperbolic Holdings GmbH in Lugano, a direct investment and business development holding company focused on Life Sciences innovation worldwide.

Co-founder of several start-up companies and executive and/or advisory board member in various companies in the Biotech and Medtech sectors.

Co-founded Orion Investment Management in Bermuda, an asset manager for family offices, trusts and captive insurers, and successfully sold it to a private bank.

Has 25 years of investment and business creation experience, with past positions including Salomon Brothers and Credit Suisse.

Wilma Lukas

Associate Partner

Ph.D. in Biological Sciences with honors – University of Geneva, CH; MBA Lausanne, CH

Senior executive with extensive R&D experience as well as in Business Development.

Over 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical sector (Debiopharm Group, Merck-Serono, GSK).

Member of several organizations accelerating start-up development (W Life Sciences, Innosuisse, Univ. Lausanne, Swiss National Science Foundation).

Considered one of the best professionals from the Life Sciences and business community in Switzerland.

Drug discovery, R&D, Pre-Clinical assessment, In & out licensing.

Pharma-Bio business development, Business Strategy & Planning, Business Mentoring.


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