Ivy Teh

Ivy co-founded Clearstate and serves as its Managing Director, heading a team of healthcare consultants across the region since 2006. After the acquisition of Clearstate by the Economist Group, Ivy also holds the position of Global Managing Director, EIU Healthcare Consulting, essentially overseeing all healthcare businesses under the EIU umbrella.

Ivy has over 16 years of healthcare consulting experience across medical technology, pharmaceutical and healthcare services sectors in Asia-Pacific and emerging markets. Her areas of expertise include commercial and operational strategy development, business model evaluation and innovation, capabilities assessment, market entry and growth strategy, greenfield exploration and commercial due diligence.

Ivy has designed and managed numerous healthcare insights projects and facilitated various market growth strategy session for clients. Ivy interprets and analyzes competitor, customer and government trends to assist clients in identifying and formulating strategies to capture opportunities. Ivy also leads in brainstorming strategy sessions with clients in most of these engagements.

Ivy has published several white papers and articles on current healthcare topics; examples include Endoscope and Accessories Market Opportunities in India, Biotech Development in China and Medical Tourism Future in Thailand published in trade magazines such as the Asia Pacific Biotech News and the BioSpectrum.

Ivy holds an MBA from Schulich School of Business, York University (Canada) and BSc (Hons) in Medical Physics from McMaster University (Canada). Prior to co-founding Clearstate, Ivy headed the Singapore and Malaysia operations of Synovate Business Consulting (now Ipsos).