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Our Team

 

We take pride in our internal expertise as well as network of associates and strategic partners.

 

With our in-house expertise in commercial as well as support functions for strategy & business development we are able to take a holistic view of the requirements of our clients, which differentiates us both with respect to quality as well as timelines. Our internal expertise covers strategy formulation & execution, business review & planning, commercial due diligence, licensing, launches, regulatory, clinical & marketing services. Our associates & strategic partners located at all major markets and locations help us provide end to end solutions to our clients especially in areas of launches, digital marketing, financial services, legal & IP.

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Strategic

Partner

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Strategic

Partner

Sameer Agarwal

CEO & Managing Partner

Frankfurt, Germany

sameer@csa-healthcare.com

O: +49 6101 9953825

M: +49 177 498 3231

Sameer is global Pharma leader, with focus on business excellence, strategy creation & execution, portfolio management, commercial team setup & mentoring, and M&A. He specializes in Pharma & Life-Sciences.

Laurent Decory PhD

Managing Partner

BlueJet Consulting

Hamburg, Germany

Laurent has 20+ years of experience in international marketing, sales & commercial excellence in Pharma & MedTech. He specializes in commercial re-structuring and due diligence, go-to-market strategy, launches and sales execution.

Cruz López

Managing Director

AboutDots

Barcelona, Spain

Cruz is a digital mindset strategist with over 20 years of experience with transversal view & multidisciplinary approach. She specializes in advising clients on new ways of doing business in digital environment.

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Chitra Agarwal

Managing Partner

Frankfurt, Germany

chitra@csa-healthcare.com

O: +49 6101 9953825

M: +49 151 630 57902

Chitra has rich experience in pharmaceutical industry, education and community services. She specializes in business development, licensing, communication & marketing of pharma and diagnostic products.

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Strategic

Partner

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Panel

Expert

Anders Krüger

Managing Partner

Krüger CFO Services Consulting

Charlottenlund, Denmark

Gagan Agarwal

Partner

Basking Ridge, USA

gagan@csa-healthcare.com

M: +1 (908) 672 0587

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Anders is an international finance leader, with several years of experience in finance leadership positions. He is a finance expert for  M&A transactions, post-merger integration, CFO advisory, interim management, working capital management, etc.

Gagan is a business leader with focus on global business development, marketing, strategy, especially in connected hospitals strategies & business transformation solutions.

Strategic Partners

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Panel Experts

SFE, Launches
Digital Marketing
Finance, CFO Advisory
Legal, Compliance, IP
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Our Advisors

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Roland Mirow

International Pharma Consultant

Munich, Germany

Roland.Mirow@t-online.de

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Adji Baroto

Director, Cakrawara

Jakarta, Indonesia

cakrawara@cakrawara.co.id

Biographies

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Sameer Agarwal

Sameer Agarwal is a pharma leader with 30 years global experience, thereof more than 15 years senior executive level experience for Fresenius Kabi & Dabur Pharma with responsibilities for strategy, portfolio management, acquisitions, licensing, general management, sales & marketing. He has headed global pharma businesses in USA, China & rest of Asia, Europe, Russia and South America, covering key product types including oncology, biosimilars, pain management, anaesthesia, anti-infective and critical care. Sameer is also experienced in business development, IP, regulatory, pharmaceutical analysis and bioequivalence studies. He is a German citizen and lives in Frankfurt am Main. He has previously lived and worked from USA, Hong Kong, and India

 

Sameer holds a Master of Pharmacy degree from Indian Institute of Technology, BHU, India, a Master of Science degree in Pharma Sciences from University of Toledo, USA and a MBA in Marketing from IGNOU, India. He attended Kellogg Executive Scholar Program (Sales & Marketing) at Northwestern University, USA and Advanced Management Program at INSEAD, France.

 

Sameer founded CSA Healthcare as a strategy and M&A consulting firm for the pharma, healthcare and life-sciences space. He serves as CEO & Managing Partner responsible for strategy, business development and key account management. As part of his responsibilities he has held many interim management roles & board positions to support clients of CSA Healthcare.

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Chitra Agarwal

Chitra Agarwal is a senior executive with 30 years of rich experience in pharmaceutical industry, education and community services. She is highly experienced in developing business, setting up and managing business teams, communication, M&A, corporate affairs, product launches, project management, marketing, regulatory affairs and clinical trial management. She has team oriented leadership skills and is an expert in mentoring, teaching and personnel training.

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Chitra holds a Master of Pharmacy from Delhi University, India and a MBA in Marketing from IGNOU, India. She can communicate in English and German. 

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Chitra serves as Managing Partner responsible for licensing and technical services.

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Gagan Agarwal

Gagan Agarwal is a results-driven business leader with more than 20 years of global business development, marketing, strategy, consultative selling, strategic alliances, channels and partnerships experience in a variety of industries in USA, Asia Pacific and emerging markets. He has a proven track record in positively influencing executive relationships and revenue growth. Gagan has held functional leadership roles in CloudJuncxion, Alcatel-Lucent, and AG Communication Systems.  Gagan specializes in connected hospitals strategies & business transformation solutions and is founder & CEO of GSA Global LLC (gagan@gsaglobalgroup.com) and XPOGLOBE LLC (gagan@expoglobe.com).

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Gagan holds a Master of Commerce degree in Finance from Banaras Hindu University, India, a MBA from Western Illinois University, USA, and Executive Program Certificate (Digital Marketing Analytics) from MIT Sloan School of Management, USA.

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As Partner, Gagan plays a pivotal role in managing US operations of CSA Healthcare.

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Roland Mirow

Roland Mirow is a senior executive and consultant with more than 40 experience in the international pharmaceutical industry with focus on general management, strategy, marketing & sales.

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He has held operational executive management positions in Europe, USA and Latin America, including eight years of executive management experience with an international Japanese pharmaceutical company in Germany and in Europe.

 

Roland’s functional experience focuses around issues of  business strategy, business development, strategic and operational planning, operational management, regional management, strategic marketing, controlling, IT management, intellectual property management and market access. During his 14 years of top management consulting activities Roland has focussed on issues of business strategy, strategic and operational planning, marketing and sales, market access, customer relationships and business development. Roland has been associated with The Boston Consulting Group, Ciba-Geigy / Novartis, ATKearney, The Cambridge Pharma Consultancy / IMS Consulting and Santen.

 

After ending his career as a management executive, Roland today works as an independent consultant serving the international pharmaceutical industry.

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Adji Baroto

Adji Baroto is a business, marketing & communications leader with more than 4 decades of solid experience in leading roles in global as well as Indonesian companies. He held important positions in Abbott, Pfizer, BMS, Pharos, Fresenius, Taisho & Leo Burnett Kreasindo. He has setup businesses, trained, lead & mentored teams. He also has many important product launches to his credit. Since 2000 he has been heading Cakra Parama Komunika (Cakrawara), a communication & empowerment company.

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