Rapid-Fire Rounds with Healthcare Leaders 2 - Valentino Confalone | From MBA to GM: a conversation on career, culture, and pharma 

The Healthcare Club of the INSEAD Alumni Association of Italy and the NOVA-MBA Healthcare Interest Group are excited to invite you to attend this webinar. The event will be in English. 

Webinar Series Description
Rapid-Fire Rounds with Healthcare Leaders is a high-impact virtual series featuring one top industry leader per session, delivering sharp insights on the biggest challenges and opportunities in healthcare.
Each 45-minute session includes a dynamic discussion followed by Q&A for students and alumni of the world’s top business schools.

Event Description
An engaging conversation designed to provide insights on three focused topics. The session will cover how an MBA influences career growth in healthcare, insights on international leadership and cultural challenges, and Italy’s role and contributions in the global pharmaceutical industry. It will be a focused conversation on career, cultural leadership, and pharma.

Agenda
18:00-18:05 Introduction
18:05-18:35 Fireside chat
18:35-19:45 Networking Q&A

Speaker
Valentino Confalone
Country President Novartis Italia
Following a degree in Economics from the University Federico II of Naples and an MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona,  Valentino Confalone began his career in Schering-Plough Spain where he stayed for three years. Soon after, he joined Bristol Myers Squibb where he held, for more than a decade, various managerial roles most of them in France and Portugal, the latter country in which he became General Manager & President. In 2015 Confalone moved to Dompé Farmaceutici becoming Head of Europe for Dompé Biotech, a start-up engaged in the development and launch of innovative biotechnological therapies and then joined Gilead Sciences as Managing Director and General Manager of the Italian subsidiary where he remained until his appointment to Novartis in June 2022. He is the Vice President of Farmindustria and the Chairman of EuniPharma, the Euro- Japanese subgroup of Farmindustria. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Foreign Companies of Confindustria and a member of the General Council of Assolombarda.

Community Leaders
Francesco Bracotti, INSEAD MBA (23J) – Global Strategy Director GSK; NanoMuG Inventor https://www.linkedin.com/in/francescobracotti/
Giacomo Lomazzi, INSEAD MBA (23D) – Senior Consultant @ IQVIA https://www.linkedin.com/in/giacomolomazzi/