Emilie Grand-Perret
Country President
Emilie Grand-Perret

Emilie joined Novartis in 2001. She started her career in her home country France and she has held different posts in sales and marketing across diverse therapeutic areas, including cardiology, pneumology, neurology. She has also experience from global strategic marketing at the headquarters of the company in Basel. Before joining the Czech bureau, Emilie was the Head of Marketing in Neuroscience in the USA. Emilie holds master degree in pharmaceutics from the Universite de Pharmacie de Besancon and in management from ESSEC Business School.

Jiří Hanzlík
Country Head Sandoz s.r.o.
Jiří Hanzlík

He has been working in the pharmaceutical industry for more than 20 years. He joined Sandoz in 2011, where after 6 years managing the Rx and Hospital Business Units, he assumed responsibility for our entire commercial operations in the capacity of Country Head and is also a member of the Novartis Country Leadership Teams. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Czech Association of Pharmaceutical Companies (ČAFF) since 2017 and was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of this association in 2021.

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.

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.