Mika Partanen is currently Deputy Director, Global Competitive Insights at Bayer Pharma AG. Prior to joining Bayer in 2010, Mika also held competitive insights positions at Forest Labs, Schering-Plough, Organon BioSciences and Merck/Medco Health as well
completed several strategic projects for senior management in sales, marketing and corporate development at Merck & Co., Inc. in US and Europe.
Mika kicked off his career as a Stockbroker/Stock Analyst executing trades at the Helsinki Stock Exchange, managing sales of Deutsche Bank mutual funds in Finland and conducting industry analyses for institutional clients at a small merchant bank in Finland. Mika’s core deliverables in competitive insights have influenced and enabled senior management decision-making through well executed war-gaming and scenario workshops, congress intelligence, win-loss analyses and opportunity assessment for licensing and business development purposes.
In his work he has supported decision-makers in a
wide variety of therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular, central nervous systems, ophthalmic, pulmonary and infectious diseases, oncology, immunology, and diabetes. Mika holds an MBA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, US and LLM in International Law from the University of Helsinki, Finland.
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