Archives: Speakers

Jean-Marc van Maren

Jean-Marc van Maren is the Chief Product Officer for the Cabka Group. He has held C-level positions with several industry leaders both in Europe and the USA: GENERAL ELECTRIC, LPR and SCHOELLER ARCA. In his career he has successfully established several new businesses in the field of engineering plastics, industrial packaging, logistic services and recycled plastics.  Very early on in his career he developed the system thinking approach for reusable packaging and he is a strong advocate for synergistic relationships between ecological and economic systems.

ALAN CHOI, M.D

Alan is the Vice President of the R&D Department at the ILDONG Pharmaceutical Co and CSO of IDIENCE, a subsidiary NRDO company of ILDONG Pharmaceutical Co, specialized in Oncology. He was the high Government Officer of the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Director-General of the National Mental Health Center of Korea. He had worked for Johnson & Johnson in the local, regional, and global R&D and commercial organizations for 15 years. Alan was the staff psychiatrist in the Korean provincial mental hospital as a  Child/Adolescent Psychiatry specialist.

Leonora Lim

Leonora has over 20 years of logistics experience in servicing specifically the Life Sciences and Healthcare sector, with over a decade spent in DHL. In her current role, she works very closely across all of the DHL business divisions. Collaborating together with these colleagues, she helps to identify, explore and meet customer needs, develop new solutions, and ultimately drive business growth in the sector across Asia Pacific.

 

Additionally, she promotes DHL capabilities in the Life Sciences and Healthcare sector through global conferences and at DHL’s annual schedule of customer-centric events across Asia Pacific and in Singapore. Born and raised in Singapore, Leonora holds an Executive Masters in Business Administration from the Singapore Management University

Wilman Low

For over 10 years, I’ve been specialized in healthcare logistics, focused in areas such as clinical trial, pharmaceutical and medical technology. Currently, I head up the strategic development for the life science and healthcare sector across the Asia Pacific region in DHL Supply Chain. I work with global healthcare partners to support their transport and warehousing needs, turning their supply chain into competitive advantage.

Darren Cran

Darren has 20 years’ experience in accounting and finance. Training initially as a chartered accountant with KPMG, a number of senior finance roles in business followed. Throughout his career, Darren has implemented numerous finance and business systems and is passionate about the opportunities Cloud technology provides growing enterprises.

Aware that the adoption of new technology needs to be underpinned by a cultural shift, Darren helps finance teams transition into the digital age as seamlessly and efficiently as possible and with the best possible outcome.

Darren is author of numerous best practice guides, a regular speaker on the topic of digital transformation in the finance function and regularly lectures on the subject at the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ireland.