Ashraf Allam
Vice President
Mundi Pharma
United Arab Emirates
Biography
Ashraf Allam is the Regional Vice President for Mundipharma Middle East and Africa region, based in Dubai. Mundipharma is a leading research and manufacturing privately held US Pharmaceutical company with annual revenues around $5.0 Billions In this role, Ashraf manages Mundipharma business in the MEA countries and is fully accountable for the profit and loss. Over the last five years, Ashraf has served as the elected Chairman, Executive Committee for the association of American, European and Japanese research based manufacturing pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies (PhRMA) in the Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining Mundipharma in late 2013, Ashraf has worked for Amgen; the world's largest Biopharmaceuticals Company at their international headquarter in Switzerland, where he served as the vice president for international business development in addition to being in charge of the European markets of Italy, Greece and the Balkans. He was charged with exploiting all potential opportunities to grow, diversify and globalize Amgen's business, and was a key executive in the global strategy and commercial development team. Ashraf then moved to Dubai in 2006 to start up Amgen's operation in the Middle East, Africa and Turkey region and built it to become now among the top leading companies in the region. From 2001 to 2004 Ashraf served at Johnson & Johnson as the Managing Director, in charge of managing and leading the group’s umbrella of diversified companies based in Cairo. Prior to that, he worked for Eli Lilly & company in a variety of general management, sales, marketing, management development and business development roles in the US, Europe and the Middle East. Latterly he was the Director of Global economic affairs and pricing based in Indiana, USA, having previously been based in Geneva, Switzerland as head of area sales and marketing operations for central Eastern Europe and Middle East, Africa
Research Interest
Business Development, Management, Business Strategy, Pharmaceutical Industry, Sales, Marketing