Primary Job Title Chairman of the Board Primary Organization Aeon Scientific
Location Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Gerd Meyer is Head of the Swiss Office of Plexus Ventures LLC, a leading global Business Development & Licensing Consultancy and Chairman of Biovotion AG, a development company of medical devices.Dr. Meyer has over 28 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry. He served most recently as Head of Global Partnering
(BD&L) for General Medicine and Mature Products at Novartis’ Pharma’s Headquarters in Basel and became Member of Novartis’ Prime Force. Dr. Meyer held various senior positions at Novartis HQ in Global Project and Product Management, Marketing Research, Trademarks, and Strategic Planning and became Head of Sandoz-Wander II (OTC and prescription drugs), in Bern.
He worked as Pharma Marketing Head of Sandoz Brazil, coordinated the merger between Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy and became Head of OTC, Generics and Pharmaceutical Business Development & Licensing of Novartis Brazil.Dr. Meyer began his industry career in Research and Development at Novartis (formerly Sandoz). Before he served among others as adviser to the Swiss Parliament, the Research Council of Switzerland and to the Management Center Europe, in Brussels where he also acted as lecturer. He was Board Director and Chairman of development companies.He graduated summa cum laude from the University of St. Gallen with a Doctor’s Degree in Business Administration where he also worked as lecturer. His books on Human Capital and on Innovations received scientific awards.
