David Findlay Email & Phone Number

London/Glasgow Uk

Rostra Therapeutics is a life sciences company set up to develop medicines to treat serious infectious diseases

London, United Kingdom

Morton Findlay Associates was set up to deliver global strategic consulting expertise to the pharmaceutical industry. I bring a successful track record to the development of new business models, launch planning in the context of complex multi-national payer environments, market research and forecasting, and delivering aligned, implementable strategies to maximise commercial success. My specialist focus is antibacterials, addressing the commercial challenges of delivering an attractive ROI in this therapy area, but I also work across many therapy areas. I also provide non-executive director services to the healthcare industry. My clients have included GSK, The AMR Centre, Auspherix Pharma, IDEA Pharma, Spero Therapeutics

Gsk House, Brentford, Uk

I was the commercial lead for GSK's global antibacterial and biodefence portfolios (pipeline and in-market), partnering with regions and markets to maximise patient access and ROI.I led R&D/commercial cross-functional teams to develop and implement the global commercial strategy for a portfolio of anti-infective agents in late stage R&D. I was the global commercial lead for business development activities in the antibacterial space, completing many due diligence reviews interfacing directly with potential partner companies. I was the GSK lead on various partnership initiatives to encourage investment to deliver new antibacterials to address antibiotic resistance, including being GSK's lead on the IMI initiative, DRIVE-AB. I have delivered a number of conference presentations recently on the need to incentivise new investment in antibacterial R&D. I have recruited and developed teams to deliver commercial objectives at a global and local level

Gsk House, Brentford, Uk

International Marketing Director for antibiotics and immuno-inflammation covering ex-US markets including Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa and Japan.In this role, I developed the GSK antibacterial strategy position for EMEA, Asia-Pacific and Japan through direct liaising with regions and markets, gaining endorsement at President level for the resulting position.I developed competitive reviews of the immuno-inflammation market and pipeline as well as undertaking commercial due diligence on a number of potential in-license medicines. I managed two early stage hospital antibiotics (1 gram-ve, 1 gram +ve), developing target product profiles and associated development plan proposals as the global commercial representative on the Medicine Development Team

London

Centre of Excellence, EU Pharma. Working directly with external stakeholders to determine the opportunity for pandemic medicine stockpiling and developing the strategy for this market segment

Philadelphia, Pa

Based at GSK's antibacterial R&D facility in Philadelphia, I built and managed a team responsible for developing and implementing global disease and asset commercial strategies in a number of anti-infective therapy areas. I was globally responsible for in-market antibacterials, including growing Augmentin sales to £1bn+ and managing the lifecycle through patent expiry. Initially located in US for 3 years, then London due to additional specific EU anti-infective responsibilities.

Harlow, Uk

As part of the Global Strategic Product Development group, I delivered multi-country qualitative and quantitative market research, global forecasts and analytic reports on internal and Business Development assets in anti-infectives and neurosciences.

Welwyn Garden City, Uk

Planned campaigns and interacted directly with external experts to understand unmet need and test medicine propositions as part of pre-launch activities in Alzheimer's and cardiology for UK market launches.

London, United Kingdom

Managing a pilot JV healthcare delivery project in respiratory medicine

Managing a national team of Account Managers with responsibility for maintaining sales of post IP respiratory brands. Targets exceeded.

London, United Kingdom

Marketing manager in NHS Relations team, setting and delivering the communications objectives for the team within the target market of NHS managers. Gathering information on developing NHS structures and drivers and disseminating to internal Glaxo UK teams.

Responsible for 2 sales forces covering all therapy areas - gynaecology, dermatology, analgesia

Launched major Rx analgesic. Managed post launch to become the leading branded analgesic in UK market within one year. Managed gynaecology, dermatology and antifungal portfolios. Launched and terminated products in these therapy areas

Mba, International Business

Mba, Strategic Planning And International Business

Diploma in Marketing (Hammersmith College, 1986)

Bsc (Hons), Neuropsychology

Exceptional Non-Executive Director Course

Exceptional Non-Executive Director Course, Business/Commerce, General