Our clients operate in dual environments - life science and business - and we shape our teams around the common challenges facing these segments. Valid Insight’s international team draw on decades of market access, medical and relevant commercial experience.
MSc
Senior Director Operations/ COO
James Wright is Senior Director of Operations at Valid Insight. With over 20 years’ experience in consulting and healthcare, James leads our international operations.
BSc (Hons.)
Senior Director Commercial Strategy/ CCO
Frank is Senior Director and CCO at Valid Insight. With nearly 25 years of experience as a consultant to the pharmaceutical industry, Frank is a seasoned professional, who leads our commercial strategy, business and client solution development.
PhD
Senior Executive Advisor
Raf De Wilde is a global expert in life sciences pricing and all aspects of market access. He has over 40 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry and over 30 years in global market access. Apart from his vast expertise with market access projects he is also a proficient trainer on pricing, tendering and contracting, market access negotiations, patient access schemes, and WHO classification issues.
BSc (Hons), PGCert Health Economics
Director – Value Communication
Carolyn has 30 years’ experience in the healthcare industry, including 15 years in the global HEOR division of Allergan (now AbbVie), 14 years in market access consultancy and 3 years working for a medical diagnostic company. Carolyn specialises in the development of value dossiers, key value messages, value communication tools, HTA submissions and health economic models to support pricing, reimbursement and market access.
BSc (Hons)
Associate Director
Andrew Dempsey is an Associate Director at Valid Insight.
Andrew is approaching 20 years of Pharmaceutical Industry experience working across the UK and Ireland in a series of market access and policy related roles, and has developed broad and extensive experience in areas such as innovative pricing arrangements, patient access schemes, patient support programmes and the broader negotiation of access terms with national health bodies post HTA.
MPharm
Senior Consultant
Pedro is a Senior Consultant at Valid Insight. Pedro has worked in a diverse selection of roles across translational research, community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, distribution and sales, obtaining a holistic view of pharmaceutical supply chain. His market access experience spans commercial strategy, pricing and positioning research, TPP and value message testing, literature review, epidemiology and market sizing, competitive assessment and tracking, interviewing and adboard moderation.
BSc, MRes, PhD
Consultant
Stephen is a Consultant at Valid Insight. He began his career working as a postdoctoral researcher in Neuroscience, and worked for 2 years at Newcastle University, before working for 7 years as a Wellcome trust researcher at the University of York.
BA, MSc, DPhil
Consultant
Laura Kelly has nearly ten years of experience working in applied health research, particularly in the area of Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) measurement. She has extensive experience of designing and conducting qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods projects, including in-depth interviews, focus groups and cognitive interviews. Her research experience covers a broad range of therapeutic areas, including dermatology, diabetes, neurology, orthopaedics, women’s health, urology and epilepsy.
MSc, MPhil
Consultant
Francesca is a consultant at Valid Insight. Francesca has experience in value demonstration and market access strategy in a range of chronic diseases, working directly with stakeholders to develop targeted value propositions and communications materials. In addition, Francesca has been involved in evidence generation, real-world data collection and developing economic evidence, including budget impact and cost-effectiveness analyses.
MSc
Consultant
Esther Miralles Simó is a Consultant at Valid Insight. Prior to joining Valid Insight, Esther worked at Karolinska Development, a venture capital organisation where she was involved in a range of projects in the business development area, including pricing and reimbursement landscaping, market sizing and in competitive intelligence activities.
MSc, PhD
Consultant
Julen is an experienced market access and pricing consultant with extensive knowledge and hands-on experience in the development of market access strategy and payer deliverables across all stages of the product lifecycle.
MPharm
Associate Consultant
Rita Conceição is experienced in pricing and reimbursement submissions, market dynamics activities, global value dossiers and stakeholder reports and communications. She has expertise in a range of therapeutic areas, including oncology, respiratory and vaccines. Previous pharmaceutical sciences training has also enabled Rita to have broad exposure to the pharmaceutical environment.
BSc (Hons.), MB BChir, MRCOphth
Founder
Steve Bradshaw is the Founder of Valid Insight.
BPharm. Grad.Dip.Sc(Pharm). MCom
Senior Advisor
Sue Caleo-Naeyaert is a senior international executive in the areas of Pricing, Market Access, Health Economics, Government Affairs and Policy who has lived and worked in Europe, Switzerland, Asia, and the United States. With a combined 26 years of experience in academia, government and the pharmaceutical industry, Sue had held senior roles at local, regional and global levels working for Roche, Janssen/Johnson and Johnson, Merck KGaA and Fresenius Kabi, managing complex and challenging projects.
BSc, MSc, PhD
Senior Advisor
Alia Karaouni has over 20 years’ experience as a strategy consultant and foresight expert. She is an expert in systems thinking and business modelling for complex decision support in the pharmaceutical industry. She focuses on issues related to pricing strategy, market access, portfolio analysis, cost-benefit assessment, commercial planning and valuation.
MA, PhD
Senior Advisor
Carole Chrvala has nearly 30 years’ experience as an epidemiologist, health economics and outcomes researcher.
BA, MA, MSc, DPhil
Senior Advisor
Crispin Jenkinson is a leading expert in patient-reported outcomes and health status measurement, the evaluation of patient experiences of medical care and methodology.
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