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Country President a.i.
Galina Tissot

Galina Tissot is the SERCE Country President a.i. for the Czech Republic. With extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry, Galina has held diverse roles and has a strong track record of performance and people management in various markets across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East Africa. She is passionate about driving performance, courage, transparency, psychological safety, and leading diverse teams with a learning mindset. Galina is a leader with a background in Commercial, Strategy, and Business Development & Licensing, and has a proven track record of success across these areas.

Bilal Abdus Samad
Head of NOCC Prague
Bilal Abdus Samad

Bilal joined the NOCC Prague Leadership Team in 2019 and has played a pivotal role in NOCC Prague operations. He began his career at Novartis in 2010 in Pakistan and has assumed various roles of increasing responsibility, including FSC Head Indonesia and R2R Transition Lead for the FRA Asia transition into KL NOCC. Subsequently, he was PMO Lead for FRA transitions to NOCC Prague from Region Europe. Since the beginning of 2022, in addition to his role as NOCC Prague Head of Finance, Bilal acted as ad interim NOCC Dublin Head of Finance, a role which he will step out of by the end the year 2022.

Kateřina Nosek
Head of Country Communications
Kateřina Nosek

Kateřina joined Novartis in 2020. As a communications director she handles all aspects of internal and external communication, marketing and publicity for a company. Katerina´s role is also the spokesperson of our company. She brought to her position rich experience with marketing and communication from leading Czech publishing houses and multinational retail.