Dr. Andreas Rummelt is Partner and CEO of InterPharmaLink AG, a Management Consulting firm in Basel, Switzerland. His international career in pharmaceuticals has focused on the areas of manufacturing, quality, technical development and generics and he has served more than twenty years in executive management positions in the industry. From 2004 to 2008, Dr. Rummelt was CEO of Sandoz in Vienna and Holzkirchen. He also served as Group Head of Quality Assurance and Technical Operations at Novartis, a position he held from 2008 until 2010, and he had been a member of the Executive Committee of Novartis from 2006 until his resignation in 2010. Dr. Rummelt is a pharmacist and holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.