20^th Annual Pharma Middle East Congress

Yavuz Selim Silay is the Co-Founder & CEO of MaQasid Angel Investors Network (MAIN) and Chairman of Istanbul Consulting Group. He is currently the Co-Founder of BioCube İstanbul Bioentrepreneurship & Innovation Center and Corporate Communication Director of Archem Diagnostics. He previously managed the largest distributor of Siemens Healthcare in Turkey managing 250 employees and Director of Avcılar Hospital R&D Center. Previously he has worked as the Market Access & Health Policy Director for AIFD in Turkey. He has previously worked as the Vice President of Ipsen Pharmaceutical and Director of Teva Pharmaceutical in USA managing large clinical trials as well as Investigator initiated trials and developing relationships with key opinion leaders. He was the Associate Director at KV Pharmaceuticals and Director in Clinical Development Department at Forest Laboratories. He has earned his MD from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ankara in Ankara, Turkey. He has completed a Clinical Internship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, followed by continued research training at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He recently completed his Executive MBA at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.