Emma Chaffin

Senior client partner at IQVIA

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In her role as Senior Client Partner at IQVIA, Emma provides strategic commercial consultancy to Biotech organisations across EMEA, focusing on creating value by maximizing commercial success.

Emma has over 25 years’ experience across the life sciences industry, predominantly in consulting, small-mid size pharma and biotech.

Emma’s experience spans the full clinical development and commercial life cycle. She has built commercial biotech organisations from the ground up 3 times; once in an incredibly resource constrained environment and once supporting an organisation through a $50m IPO, the largest biotech IPO in that particular year. Her most recent role was as Vice President Commercial for Galapagos where she oversaw the launch of their first molecule in 2 indications across 5 countries. Geographically, Emma has worked across Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Canada and Australia. More recently, in her General Management roles, she has had full P&L responsibility for teams of up to 100 across the full operational spectrum, including medical and support functions. Emma is working for IQVIA 4 days a week, on the 5th day of the week she provides fractional CCO support to 3 clinical-stage biotech's.