Why Attend
Animal Health Innovation is the premier business partnering conference, connecting stakeholders that is focused on product innovation, financial investment, or strategic corporate partnerships in animal health from across Asia-Pacific.
Our Animal Health Innovation event showcases the most exciting investment opportunities in animal health, connecting these businesses with investors and strategic corporate partners.
New for this year is an Innovation Showcase, focusing on emerging businesses and start-ups from across the region, allowing attendees to gain valuable insight into innovation in the market.
We will also host senior-level keynotes and panel discussions that address the trends and market dynamics of the animal health industry in Asia.
Given the uncertain situation with the Covid-19 pandemic, this event will be held virtually, allowing us to share our partnering and knowledge platform with a global audience.
Who You Will Meet
Attendees will represent the following key stakeholder groups in the Animal Health market
- Heads of Business Development, Animal Health, R&D from Multinational Pharmaceutical Companies
- CEOs, CSOs and Heads of Business Development from Emerging Animal Health Companies
- CEOs, Heads of Business Development, Product Discovery and Marketing from Incubators/ Accelerators, Contract Research Orgs, Consultants, Lawyers and other Service Providers
…all of the above with an interest in Livestock, Aquaculture and the Companion Animal markets
Attendees expected from the following key stakeholder groups and organizations
2021 Speakers
Mr. Norman Li
Ms. Philippa Thornton
Mr. Katsutoshi Kato
Mr. Vijay Teng
Joseph Harvey
Ms. Ruth Davis
Mr. Tony Tan
Dr. Yuki Ujimasa, DVM, MS
Dr. Griff Dalgleish
Dr Magdoline Awad BVSc GradCertMgt MANZCVSc (Animal Welfare)
Dr Magdoline Awad has a Bachelor of Veterinary Science degree from the University of Sydney, a graduate degree in Veterinary Professional Practice Management, and Membership of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists in the Animal Welfare Chapter.
She was appointed to the Veterinary Practitioners Board of NSW in 2019 representing vets in urban areas. She is a member of the UNSW Animal Care and Ethics Committee and the NSW representative for the AVA Welfare and Ethics special interest group. She was previously a member of the Animal Research and Review Panel NSW from 2008-2016. Mags was also a member of the Sydney School of Veterinary Science Admissions Committee for the DVM degree from 2014-2019.
Mags was Chief Veterinarian at RSPCA NSW from 2008-2015, after starting with the organisation in 1996. The Chief Veterinarian was responsible for the organisation’s 4 Veterinary hospitals. She was involved in the development and management of community programs in remote regional areas of NSW, working with local veterinarians and government to improve the welfare of pets in those communities. Programs for the disadvantaged, including the elderly have since been incorporated into the University of Sydney Veterinary Undergraduate Degree. The role also included Veterinary oversight of animal cruelty matters, ensuring adherence to legislation and policy and any related media.
Prior to her role at Greencross, Mags spent 4 years as the Chief Veterinary Officer for PetSure, working closely with the Veterinary Profession and Industry to increase Pet Insurance awareness and penetration in Australia.
Mr. Yuta Fujimoto
Mr. Simon Hellams
Jon Spaits
Mr. Katsuhiro Shinjo
Mr. Zhaohui Wang
Mr. Zhou Sichao Brad
Dr Hideaki Oike
Professor Okamoto
The Virtual Experience
Top 10 benefits
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- High Quality Speakers
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Testimonials
"This is a unique event for our animal health industry. It brings local and international players together, and provides an excellent platform to build business partnerships.”
Tony Zilong Tan, Z-Link Biotech Co. Ltd.
“This meeting is a very exciting one – it’s a platform to meet everyone from Chinese animal health and International animal health companies, and to introduce them to one-another. This way you save time and it gives you more chance to keep ahead of the innovations.”
Tingwu Xue, China Animal Husbandry Group (CAHG)
“I think this is a great meeting for companies to come together and find out what the common challenges are and how they can work together. I’m really impressed!"
Jishu Shi, U.S.-China Centre for Animal Health
"Everybody’s here, you can have many meetings in one spot, learn how to work together, increase your network and search for ideas.”
Joachim Hasenmaier, Boehringer-Ingelheim
Partners
Associate Digital Innovation Partners
Zoetis
Website: www.zoetis.com
Zoetis is the leading animal health company, dedicated to supporting its customers and their businesses. Building on more than 65 years of experience in animal health, Zoetis discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes medicines, vaccines and diagnostic products, which are complemented by biodevices, genetic tests and precision livestock farming. Zoetis serves veterinarians, livestock producers and people who raise and care for farm and companion animals with sales of its products in more than 100 countries. In 2019, the company generated annual revenue of $6.3 billion with approximately 10,600 employees.
For more information, visit www.zoetis.com.
ZENOAQ
Website: http://www.zenoaq.jp/english/index.html
ZENOAQ aims to create a shared and everlasting future for humans and animals. Amidst efforts to improve drug development, veterinary therapy and biotechnology, ZENOAQ strives to enhance the value of animals. The core activities in ZENOAQ are deeply connected with our customers, which in turn, affects their animals in many different ways. These connections form a network that is not just limited to Japan, but is something that will also reach across international borders, creating mutual benefit for both humans and animals in the future.
Gold Digital Innovation Partners
Clinglobal
Website: https://www.clinglobal.com/
CLINGLOBAL is an Animal Health Services company established during 2016 in Mauritius acting as a contract holding and centralised service provider for the ever expanding “Clin” group of companies.
Our unique business model allows the animal health industry and community to benefit from our simplified contracting solutions by having a customizable all-inclusive approach and the delivery of animal health research projects and services.
knoell
As one of the leading service providers for worldwide registration and regulatory compliance knoell offers you efficient services, high flexibility, excellent quality, and reliability. The knoell group has over 600 experts based in 14 countries supporting you to gain and maintain marketability of your substances, active agents, and products - globally! Our team of scientific and regulatory experts can help you in animal health, crop protection, crop nutrition, chemicals, biocides, and medical devices. The knoell approach to acting worldwide is your key to success. Think Globally, Act Locally!
Klifovet
Website: http://www.klifovet.com
KLIFOVET provides high quality services for the animal health and animal nutrition industry regarding the registration and marketing of all kind of veterinary products. We support ambitious young biotech and veterinary pharma companies on their way to the top by providing full business and product development management, regulatory affairs consultancy including dossier writing, compilation and submission, and full CRO services for safety and efficacy studies. We are proud on 18 years of experience, well organized logistics, a highly motivated team, and a comprehensive net of co-operators and skilled investigators throughout Europe, North America and the world. We handle large multinational projects as professionally as national ones, complying to national, EMA, EFSA or FDA standards.
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With our extensive marketing experience and strategy, your partnership with Kisaco Research will grant you a sponsorship package that is an extension and enhancement of your current marketing and branding efforts. We value your ROI and will work with you directly on your specific goals and targets – that’s why we take special care in finding the most relevant end-users to attend, so that your financial and resource investment is smartly allocated.
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Global Advisory Board
WHO THEY ARE
Each of our Advisory Board members have been chosen based on numerous recommendations, their deep knowledge and Industry experience and ability to provide a clear vision, not just for their own organizations, but for the industry as a whole.
WHY THEY ARE HERE
Board members guide not just content, but also the underlying mission of the events to drive positive change.
Author:
Aaron Schacht
Mr. Aaron Schacht is currently the Vice President of Global Research and Development / Regulatory Affairs at Elanco Animal Health. Prior to this, Mr. Aaron Schacht held a role of Global Brand Development Leader – Pain in Lilly Biomedicines. He was the global leader for product development and commercialization activities for LY2951742 – Lilly’s novel CGRP neutralizing antibody – a new potential treatment for prevention of Migraine and Cluster Headache. In 2012, Schacht joined Lilly Biomedicines as Senior Advisor – Strategy & Business Development for Lilly BioMedicines. His responsibilities included oversight of Therapeutic Strategy development, R&D Portfolio Management, and Business Development for Lilly BioMedicines – Lilly’s largest business unit. Past roles included serving as Executive Director, Global External R&D, at Eli Lilly and Company, where he was responsible for implementation of strategies which aim to leverage novel approaches to external partnerships to augment Lilly’s access to pharmaceutical innovation as well as Executive Director of LRL (Lilly Research Labs) Strategy, Portfolio Management and Project Management where he was responsible for strategic planning, R&D portfolio and project management. Prior to these roles, he was Director, Innovation Center in the eLilly organization where he focused on the exploration, incubation and implementation of new business models and capabilities relevant to the strategic evolution of the pharmaceutical industry. In 2002, during a short leave from Lilly, Mr. Schacht was co-founder, President and CEO of Artesian Therapeutics, a Gaithersburg, MD cardiovascular drug discovery start-up. Mr. Schacht began his career at Lilly in 1990 as a medicinal chemist, and spent 5 years in the laboratory working to discover pharmaceuticals to treat cardiovascular disorders. Schacht studied Organic chemistry at the University of Illinois, receiving his Bachelors of Science degree in 1990.
Author:
Jean-Luc Michel
After graduating from the University of Pharmacy of Lyon with a Doctorate and from EM Lyon Business School with an MBA, Jean-Luc Michel started his career by creating his own consultancy company. He joined the pharmaceutical industry in 1991 spending 10 years developing a solid expertise in consumer healthcare and nutrition. During this period, he held a variety of senior marketing and sales management positions in France at Monsanto (Searle) and at Johnson&Johnson / Merck & Co where he was an Executive Committee member of the French subsidiary.
In 2001, Jean-Luc joined Merial, a leader in the animal health industry, where he held some key senior roles, such as EMEA Marketing Director of the Companion Animal Global Enterprise; Head of Marketing EMEA; Executive Marketing Director (Pet Business) in the US; VP, Head of Pet Vet Business Unit; and in 2016 joined the Executive Committee of Merial as Head of Global Commercial Development.
After the acquisition of Merial by Boehringer Ingelheim, Jean-Luc was appointed Head of Global Companion Animal Strategic Business Unit and became a member of the Executive Committee of the Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health Business Unit.
Author:
Kathy V. Turner
Ms. Turner has been Corporate Vice President of IDEXX since May 2014 and leads the Company’s Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA) Companion Animal Commercial Operations. Prior to joining the Company, from 1987 to May 2014, Ms. Turner held various leadership positions at Abbott Laboratories, Inc., a broad-based healthcare company that manufactures and markets pharmaceuticals, medical products and diagnostics. Most recently, Ms. Turner was Divisional Vice President of European Commercial Operations for the Diagnostics Division from 2011 to 2014, and prior to that, Divisional Vice President of Global Strategic Operations for the Diagnostics Division from 2007 to 2011. Ms. Turner holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing and advertising from Syracuse University.
Author:
Linda Rhodes
Dr. Rhodes has 28 years of accomplishments in human and animal drug discovery, development, biomedical research, and clinical veterinary medicine.
Dr. Rhodes was educated at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (VMD) and Cornell University (PhD). She has 28 years of accomplishments in human and animal drug discovery, development, biomedical research, and clinical veterinary medicine. She has an extensive background in physiology, veterinary medicine, and molecular biology. As a senior research fellow at Merck Research Laboratories for 10 years, she led pre-clinical biology evaluation of several marketed human drugs. Dr. Rhodes practiced clinical veterinary medicine for five years, with experience in both companion and farm animal practice. She worked for Merial Ltd. as director of development projects, leading project teams developing novel compounds for a variety of indications and headed new technology assessment, leading the evaluation of licensing opportunities. In April 2001, she formed AlcheraBio, a consulting, marketing, communications and contract research firm specializing in developing new drugs for animals, working with biotechnology and animal health companies, with clients in the US, European Union, Canada and Australia. AlcheraBio was acquired in 2008 by Argenta, and in 2011, Dr. Rhodes accepted a position as CEO of Aratana Therapeutics, a company developing innovative new medicines for dogs and cats, and subsequently, when the company became public (PETX) served as its Chief Scientific Officer. During her tenure, development was completed on three new pet therapeutics: two new molecules with novel mechanisms of actions were approved by the FDA, and a third drug had FDA registration completed and was approved in August, 2016. She is currently retired and an independent consultant. She is a member of the Board of Directors of ImmuCell (NASDAQ: ICCC) and the Alliance for Contraception in Dogs and Cats, serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Found Animals Foundation. She is an adjunct faculty member in the Graduate Animal Science program at Rutgers University.
Author:
Alan Mackay
Alan has been a private equity investor for more than 25 years in roles including Senior Partner and Global Head of Healthcare at the private equity firm 3i Group plc. He was appointed to the board of 3i plc in 1993 and became CEO of 3i Nordic plc, based in Stockholm, upon the acquisition of Sweden's largest listed private equity company Atle AB in 2001. Alan has served on the boards of a number of healthcare companies, including most recently Phibro Animal Health Corporation which completed a successful initial public offering (IPO) in April 2014. Latterly he has been Managing Partner, CEO, and Chairman of the Investment Committee, of Hermes GPE, an active co-investor in private equity backed healthcare. Alan holds a Bachelor's degree in Law, an MSc in Enterprise and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD. He is Chair of the BVCA for 2016 – 2017 and previously chaired its Responsible Investment Advisory Board.
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
This esteemed group is responsible for identifying and evaluating innovative emerging companies for
presentation as part of our Innovation Showcases. Each of our committee members has an extensive
breadth of experience and knowledge across animal health and nutrition industries and will be available
for meetings at the conference.
Author:
Mr. Miles Yao
Miles Yao had studied virology and he holds a Master Degree in Preventive Veterinary Medicine from China Agriculture University, he also holds Master Degrees in Agricultural Economics from Purdue University, and an MBA from Indiana University-Kelley School of Business. Prior to this, he studied in Huazhong Agricultural University and earned an Animal Science Degree.
Miles Yao founded MarketVisor AgConsulting in 2015, and since then serves as its Managing Director, responsible for market development and entry strategies, as well as day-to-day engagement with commercial, government, and trade association contacts for clients. He and his team at MarketVisor are business partners for some leading trade associations and international and domestic animal health companies.
In 2018, Miles founded BioVantage with other investing partners, committing to be a Contract Research Organization in animal health sector.
Prior to being an entrepreneur, Miles has worked in leadership roles overseeing commercial and regulatory affairs with a Hong Kong based agribusiness company. He has lead China market entry strategies for agricultural products and animal health products from clients in the US, Mexico and EU. In these roles, Miles has ensured the market access, developed and managed distribution networks, key in-market client relationships and day-to day business activity.
From 2007-2013, Miles also worked in the Beijing USDA-APHIS office promoting safe and sustainable agriculture trade in China, Hong Kong, Macau and Mongolia. His primary focuses were technical and trade consultations between Government and industry, trade barrier reduction and negotiation, and agriculture policy analysis and execution. Miles had worked with Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health for two years during 2005-2007, while at BI, his primary focus was swine sector. He also worked in poultry sector with Beijing Efficacy Biotech Co. as a Technical Manager for some time.
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