SEQUENTIS HEALTH - Key Persons
Darren prides himself on his project management skills and appreciates the importance of a smoothly executed market research engagement - when working with him, clients have the full confidence that he is on top of everything and trust in his ability to handle situations autonomously, in addition to knowing when to seek their input. Having worked on the agency side for 11 years, providing strategic market research to global pharmaceutical companies, his experience enables him to deliver research findings and implications in a simple and easily digestible manner.
Darren has a degree in applied biological sciences and has worked in healthcare market research and consulting for the past 11 years - his entire career. Darren has worked for large global market research firms in addition to smaller boutique agencies, and has worked on 175+ market research engagements which have spanned the entire product lifecycle. Prior to setting up Sequentis Health, Darren worked with Matt and co-led the European division of a global market research consultancy.
Darren has always had a keen interest in life sciences, which motivated him to pursue a career in pharmaceutical healthcare market research and consulting, following the completion of his biology degree. During his studies, he spent time working in research laboratories, however found this to be too slow-paced, with little opportunity to make an immediate and tangible impact. Darren enjoys and thrives working in the fast-paced commercial pharmaceutical environment, and takes great pride in contributing to the successful launch of life changing medications.
Clients enjoy working with Darren because he likes to infuse an element of fun into his worklife and is a firm believer that if the team is happy then this most certainly helps to deliver highly successful projects! In his spare time, he likes to keep active and can regularly be found at his local CrossFit box, out riding his bike or walking his dog Lexie in Richmond Park.
Thanks to his extensive experience in big pharma cross-functional teams, Godefroy has a concrete understanding of how market research outputs are best used. Throughout his career, he has always made special efforts to ensure input from the various functions is well represented in a given project. He organised and led many cross-functional workshops to reach this objective.
Godefroy strives to simplify presentations by focusing on key points and maintaining a clean design, allowing the team to align on informed business decisions.
Godefroy is a lawyer by training with a specialisation in pharmaceutical law. He has always shown great interest in health and business especially after an internship at IMS Health Europe. This is why he complemented his background with a Specialised Master's Degree in Healthcare Marketing at ESCP European Business School of Paris. Since then, Godefroy has dedicated the last 14 years to pharma market insights at local and global levels for Novartis and Roche, where he worked together with Matt prior to founding Sequentis Health. He has experience of all lifecycle stages across a large range of therapeutic areas.
People enjoy working with Godefroy because of his capacity to actively listen to his audience to precisely understand the business issues, challenge the status quo, identify innovative ideas and summarize key insights in crystal clear presentations.
Godefroy has a competitive spirit, therefore don't be surprised to see him swimming, cycling or running to meetings. He has completed two marathons and two Ironman triathlons within the last two years.
As a trained physician, Matt brings his understanding of 'how physicians think' to all his projects. He recognises that getting the most out of physician respondents requires translation of the business question into the language of the physician, clinical language. The clinical insights that physicians provide must then be translated back into the language of business and strategy to most effectively advance the brand.
Matt's training and background make him uniquely suited to ensure that nothing is 'lost in translation' and the maximum amount of value can be derived from every project.
Matt has worked in healthcare for the past 20 years. A trained medical doctor with an MD, Matt has also earned an MBA with the intention of leveraging his medical understanding within the pharmaceutical industry. He has significant experience within the Insights and Analytics group at Roche and Genentech, having led insights teams for both pre-launch and in-line products. He also has seven years of experience in the healthcare consulting field, using his medical training and pharmaceutical-side experience to help clients leverage insights in their efforts to commercialise products.
Matt has an innate curiosity around any healthcare-related business challenge. He attacks each new problem with zeal, not resting until the necessary insights are uncovered and the implications on strategy are fully discussed, agreed upon and translated into action.
Not afraid to challenge current thinking, Matt brings a fresh perspective to every project and pushes the team to continue to evolve their market understanding.