Christian Simon

Chief Operating Officer

Christian joined Morgan Prestwich in January 2023 as our Chief Operating Officer, bringing over 16 years’ life science industry experience in Talent Acquisition and Client Account Management.  Christian has a phenomenal record of appointing executives for the life sciences industry in North America, Europe and APAC. Christian’s core expertise is working with scientific, pre-clinical and clinical stage small cap biotechs companies. He has profound knowledge of the US and European regulatory systems, enabling deeper and more advisory discussions with clients.

Christian believes in a true consultative approach and enjoys building long lasting relationships with clients and candidates.  He is passionate about building teams in organisations who will help make a significant impact to patient’s lives and wellbeing.

Christian's Expertise

Advisory

The Advisory Practice is led by Greg Bell, supported by Sean Morgan-Jones, whose combined experience delivers unique insights into the opportunities and pitfalls associated with building operations beyond the comfort of company Headquarters.  They offer practical advice, based on real-world experience on how best to execute this strategy, and ranges from the huge variation in employment contracts – particularly across Europe – to the timing and phasing of any roll-out by functional area.

Our established relationships with key Governmental representatives in the major European centres, help inform decisions on where to best locate European Headquarters in order to take best advantage of both regional incentives and the Biopharma talent pool.

We have strategic partners to support our advisory service right across the full spectrum when launching new products. These partners cover a wide and diverse spectrum including Market Access/Pricing, Regulatory, Medical, Legal, Research, Communications, Governments, Training, HR, Payroll and Investors.

 

Board, C-suite, Leadership

Great science deserves great teams and great teams need exceptional leadership. This applies right across the whole value chain from Drug Development through to Commercialisation, and getting the right leadership team in place early is a critical success factor. We have an enviable track record of advising and building top Boards and Leadership teams globally, spearheaded by CEO and Founder, Greg Bell, ably supported Sean Morgan-Jones (CCO) and Senior Client Partners Magdalena Meyer, Iman Askari and Emile Hadian.

Clinical Development

Our expert clinical development team support clients from Pre-Clinical through clinical phases I – IV. We strengthen Boards and Leadership teams to develop their science in preparation for commercialisation or acquisition. We work with true start-up Biotech companies in rare, orphan, and speciality diseases, where science can have a real impact on patient lives.

Medical Affairs

Our clients are focused on leading edge scientific innovation, making Medical and Medical Affairs a pivotal function. Simon Felton, one of the sector’s most knowledgeable and experienced consultants, leads this practice. Simon, together with his team, can build a client’s entire medical function across Europe and North America, from global and above-country senior leadership through to in-country affiliate build out. Our multilingual team of experts work on business-critical projects from Chief Medical Officer recruitment through to building entire teams of MSLs.

Technical Operations

Our Technical Operations practice spans Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance and Pharmacovigilance.

Each discipline plays a critical role in the safe and effective delivery of medicines to patients, with Regulatory Affairs playing a central role as the interface between the health agencies and various functions within the business.  Expertise in the regulatory environment, combined with a strategic overview and the ability to work cross-functionally, makes professionals in this discipline highly sought after. Quality Assurance ensures health providers can be confident that every unit provided reaches the required quality standards and is compliant with all the regulatory standards.  Constant monitoring through Pharmacovigilance maintains that confidence over time with constant monitoring used to prevent Adverse Drug Reactions.

Commercialisation

The Morgan Prestwich Team are the only search firm globally to have exclusively built over 14 biotech companies entire international launch teams (Leadership, Commercial, Medical), both above-country and in-country.

Delivering ground breaking medical innovation to a patient’s bedside relies on the expertise of professionals in Leadership, Medical, Product Launch, Market Access, Marketing and Sales, and these are core to our heritage. Led by our Senior Client Partners, Magdelena Meyer, Emile Haddian (Medical Affairs) and Iman Askari, all supported closely by CEO, Greg Bell, our commercialisation practice has extensive global networks which deliver an A Class team alongside your A Class medicine.

Great Science Deserves Great Teams

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Great science truly deserves the greatest teams to deliver on the promise to patients, caregivers, and society in important areas of clinical need. Our promise is to identify the very best talent for each part of your journey towards building a fully integrated global Biopharmaceutical business.

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