Françoise Simon

Françoise Simon is a Professor Emerita at Columbia University and Senior Faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She also manages her own international consulting group. Her teaching focuses on executive programs and won her the Chandler Award for Commitment to Excellence from the Columbia Business School.

Dr. Simon has more than thirty years of experience in consulting and marketing management in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Her clients include many Fortune 500 companies as well as new venture firms, several governments, and the United Nations.

Prior to joining the Columbia faculty, Dr. Simon was a Director of Arthur D. Little, and developed a global strategy practice serving clients in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

Previously, Dr. Simon was a Principal of Ernst & Young, where she led a strategy practice in the health and consumer industries in the United States and Europe. Her corporate experience includes an appointment as New Product Manager in International Diagnostics for Abbott (now Abbvie) in Chicago. Prior to that, she was a Marketing Development Manager for Novartis in Switzerland.

Dr. Simon holds an MBA from Northwestern University and a PhD from Yale University. She has held faculty positions at the University of Chicago and New York University, as well as Columbia University and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

She has published more than twenty articles and conducted more than 200 management seminars in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. She is the co-author of Building Global Biobrands: Taking Biotechnology to Market, with Philip Kotler (Free Press, 2003), Winning Strategies for the New Latin Markets, with Fernando Robles and Jerry Haar (Prentice-Hall, 2002), and Europe and Latin America in the World Economy with Susan Kaufman Purcell (Rienner, 1995). She is a past Vice President and Director of the American Marketing Association, and has served on the International Council of the American Management Association.

Dr. Simon has also served as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Glen Giovannetti

Glen Giovannetti is a Partner at Ernst & Young LLP and the EY Global Biotechnology Leader. He has more than 25 years of experience serving clients in the biopharmaceutical industry, primarily in Silicon Valley and Boston. He has extensive experience in assisting clients from start-ups to market leaders around issues of growth, global expansion, and strategic transactions including initial public offerings, R&D collaborations, and acquisitions.

Glen has led the development of the EY Biotechnology Annual Report, Beyond Borders, for more than a decade. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization and a member of the Board of Directors of Life Sciences Cures. Glen has a BA in Accounting from Linfield College, where he is also a member of the Board of Trustees, and is a Certified Public Accountant in California and Massachusetts.