Simone is a Senior Partner in the global lead of Simon-Kucher´s commercial Strategy Practice. She specializes in strategic pharmaceutical commercialization, launch- and brand excellence, portfolio- and lifecycle-management, including go-to-market strategies, product lifecycle strategies. She has supported many of the current top-20 pharma and biotech companies in successfully planning and commercializing their healthcare innovations in Europe and the USA.
Previously, she has worked as the global lead of IQVIA Brand / Commercial Strategy/ Launch Excellence Consulting team with IQVIA for 13 years and 6 years with Capgemini. She holds a position as an independent director of GenSight Biologics of a stock-listed ophthalmology rare disease company and has co founded a biotech focused on the treatment of a rare hematological cancer.
Before moving into consulting she has worked as a clinical dermatologist at the University hospitals Heidelberg and Homburg/ Germany as well as several dermatology offices in Germany. Simone has published numerous articles and white papers on launch excellence and coauthored the IQVIA launch Excellence Series as well as several other white papers on commercial and marketing strategy in industry executive journals as well as more than 30 peer reviewed publications.