Did you know?
A generic and a branded medicine have the same active substance and, therefore, they are interchangeable »
A generic medicine has the same quality, efficacy and safety as the original product »
Generic medicines can reduce the price of an innovator product up to 60% »
Generic medicines cost less because there has been no investment to discover them »
The first generic medicine commercialised in Spain was the AZT or Zidovudina for the treatment of HIV »
The use of generic medicines in the National Public Health departments is increasing »
You differentiate a generic because it has the name of the active substance and the letters EFG on its label »
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Board of Directors

President
Raúl Díaz-Varela

CEO KERN PHARMA

Business Degree, MBA from ESADE and Master in Foreign Trade from the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS) of St. Gallen (Switzerland). Since 2003, he is the Managing Director of KERN Pharma laboratories. His professional career has been developed in the family companies of the chemical-pharmaceutical industries of the group, having responsibility posts in Industrial KERN Española Indukern in Asia, Indukern Chemie AG (Switzerland), Indukern Hong Kong and is currently CEO of KERN Pharma Spain. He is President of AESEG since February of 2008.

Vice-president
Montserrat Almirall
Director General STADA

Doctorate in Pharmacology by Barcelona University and Programme of General Managing by IESE. She is General Manager of STADA in Spain since 1997 and Manager of Portugal since 2005. Her professional career began in 1975 as a researcher in the Pharmacy Faculty of Barcelona University. Since 1979 she has occupied several managerial positions with responsibilities in the technical management and the management of production plants in the pharmaceutical industry. From 1988 to 1998, she has actively participated in the Spanish Pharmacists of the Industry Association (AEFI), as a member of the board of directors. In 1997, she became part of Bayvit, generic medicines laboratory, as General Manager. She is member of the board of directors of AESEG since 2004.

Vice-president
Pablo Sancho

Director General APOTEX SPAIN

Pharmacy Degree by the Madrid Complutense University, diploma in Business Administration by CECO, Master in Marketing by the Madrid Autonomic University and Master in Stocks and Financial Markets by the Autonomic University and the ESCA. He has developed his professional career in the pharmaceutical industry with several responsibility posts in Alter Laboratories, Ratiopharm España, Kern Pharma, and has been General Manager of Uso Racional S.L. and PLIVA Group. Since 2008 he is General Manager of Apotex in Spain.

Vice-president
Javier Mercadé
Director General QUALIGEN/LESVI

Pharmacy degree by the Barcelona University, MBA by ESADE and PDG by IESE. His professional career has taken place in the pharmaceutical industry, developing several responsibility posts in Prodesfarma, Roche Diagnostics, Vita Group and Procter&Gamble Pharma. Currently he is a member of the management committee of Invent Farma/Lesvi, a group of vertically integrated companies, from the synthesis and production of active substances, to the development, manufacture and commercialisation of generic medicines. Since the end of 2006, he is general manager of Qualigen, the commercial company of Invent Group.

Secretary
Jesús Govantes
Director General NORMON

Pharmacy degree from the Madrid Complutense University. Since 1980, he has developed several responsibility roles in Normon Laboratories in departments such as I+D, Quality Control, Planning and Purchases and General Management. Currently he is General Manager and President of Normon Portugal.

Member
Antonio Alonso
Director General ALTER GENÉRICOS

Since 1978, he has developed his profesional career in Alter Laboratories, assuming different responsibility posts like Technical Manager and General Manager of Alter España, General Manager of Alter Portugal y General Manager of Alodial Portugal. Since 2001, he is CEO of Alter Genéricos. He is part of the board of directors of AESEG since 2004.

Member
Francisco José Aranda
Director of Operations CINFA

Pharmacy Degree by the Madrid Complutense University and Pharmacist Specialist in Galenic and Industrial Pharmacy. He accumulates more than 15 years experience in the pharmaceutical market with different responsibility positions in Manufacturing and Quality departments. Since 2009 he is Operations Manager for Cinfa Laboratories, where he has also worked as Pharmaceutical Technical director since 2001.

Member
Josep Longan
Director General MYLAN PHARMACEUTICALS SPAIN

He studied Medicine in the Central University of Barcelona, obtained a Master in Integral Marketing Management at ESADE and is PDD by IESE. He began his career in the pharmaceutical industry in 1986 in Antibióticos Farma S.A., developing commercial and team training tasks. In 1991 he entered Merck to lead a commercial team till 1997, when he became in charge of the creation and development of the generic medicines division of the company, as Commercial Manager at the beginning and as General Manager of Merck Genéricos S.L. since 2002. Currently he is General Manager of the the new Mylan Pharmaceuticals S.L., where he is also Vicepresident and CEO, after the acquisition of the generic medicines subsidiary of Merck by the Northamerican Mylan.

Member
Pere Lluis Sala
Director General RANBAXY SPAIN

Chemical Engineer by the I.Q.S. and PDD by IESE. He began his career in the pharmaceutical industry in 2002 as Commercial Manager of Sandoz S.A. (Novartis Group). Previously he had developed different business responsibility tasks in the German chemical multinational BASF. Since December 2007 he is General Manager of Ranbaxy in Spain and is part of the board of directors of AESEG since February 2010.

Member
Fernando Mateus
Director General SANDOZ SPAIN

Rebecca has a Degree in Pharmacy from the University of Bern and Basel and is graduated in Business Administration. Rebeccas has over ten years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry, she has worked in Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, and has been Manager of Product Marketing and Sales at Merck Sharp & Infectious-Chibret AG Dohme (MSD) where she also held various positions in the areas of Marketing and Sales, increasing her responsibilities for Products and Primary Care Hospital and Franchises . Since she joined Sandoz in 2007, Rebecca has developed her career in the company holding various positions until this recent appointment as Country Head of Sandoz Spain.

Member
Adolfo Herrera
CEO TEVA ESPAÑA and RATIOPHARM SPAIN

Degree in Veterinary, Master in Biotechnology by the Madrid Complutense University and Executive MBA by the Instituto de Empresa. Since June 2008, he is CEO for Teva Iberia. Previously he had developed his career as General Manager of Bentley Group in Spain, since 1997 till 2008. He worked for Laboratorios Llorente-Juventus as General Manager between 1993 and 1997. From 1990 to 1996, he worked as general manager of the Industrial Microbiology Institute.
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