Team & Contact

Fredrik has 20 years experience in senior positions within the Pharmaceutical and Medtech sector. Served in the executive management, has been CEO of both Swedish and Danish subsidiaries, and served as Executive international sales director and sales manager.

Helena brings 20 years of experience from Regulatory Affairs. She has been Head of Regulatory Affairs Nordic and Director Regulatory Affairs. She has a broad knowledge from various strategic and leadership roles as well as highly operational positions.

Kerstin has more than 20 years of experience as QA manager, QP and RP. She has worked at both small Swedish and large global companies and has a broad expertise in GMP, GDP, GCP and ISO13485.

Ulrika has a broad experience in GVP with about 15 years of experience from both smaller Swedish and large global pharmaceutical companies, CRO companies and authorities. Her most recent position was as Pharmacovigilance Inspector at the Medical Products Agency. She has previously had roles such as Global QA Auditor GCP at Sobi, PV Compliance Monitor at Baxter and Head of Country PV Sweden at BMS.

Anders has more than 20 years of experience from pharmaceutical and dental device industry in Sweden. He has experience from both Medical and Marketing & Sales positions including, Clinical Research Manager, Product/Brand Manager, Sales Manager, Sales Force Excellence Manager and Business Unit Manager and has experience from more than 10 therapeutic areas.

Karin has over 15 years of experience from working within sales in the Pharmaceutical, Med Tech and OTC industry, initially as a product specialist and sales team leader. She is a qualified PSS coach and has been a part of PharmaRelations since the year 2000.

Ola is PharmaRelations Senior Recruitment Specialist. He is responsible for developing Pharmarelations recruitment service. He is a HR specialist from the University of Linköping with more than 8 years experience of working within sales, recruiting and staffing. Ola is licensed to perform the OPQ test for personality analysis.

Peter has more than 20 years of industry experience in Sales & Marketing from several large and medium-sized pharmaceutical companies. He has held positions such as Launch Excellence Manager at Shire, Marketing and Market Access Manager at Intermune, Product Manager at Parker Davis responsible for the launch of Lipitor and Marketing Manager at Actelion. Peter has worked with and run his own consulting company in recent years, where he has leased himself for sales and marketing assignments.

Helena, with a solid academic background in pharmacology and organic chemistry, has dedicated her professional career to developing recruitment services for pharmaceutical and medical device companies in Sweden and the Nordic region. Her most recent position is as Division Manager, Head Life Sciences at in Hays Specialist Recruitment.

Claire Wharton works as Talent Specialist within our business area Recruitment. Her most recent position is as Senior Recruitment Consultant at Hays Specialist Recruitment. Claire has a degree in business management from the University of Queensland and then has a long experience of recruitment both in Australia and the last 8 years in Sweden.

Åsa Norgren, with background from marketing and sales in companies Medtronic, PartnerMed and 3M. Åsa has a strong commercial focus, a lot of drive, is a business and concept developer.

Kristina Edholm's expertise and skill is to match Life Science Professionals within the Medical and Scientific area with Pharma and Biotech companies. She holds a Master´s Degree in Medical Science/Biomedicine and has 10 years’ experience from the pharmaceutical industry, mainly as a Senior Research Scientist at AstraZeneca, and 5 years’ experience from Life Science Specialist Recruitment and search.

Eva contributes with a broad experience and network based on 20 years in Life Science. She holds a M.Sc. in Pharmacy from Uppsala University and has held various positions in the pharmaceutical industry in Sweden and other Nordic countries, pharmacy, healthcare, and industry association. Eva is focusing on both recruitment and temporary staffing.

Rikard has a degree in Social Psychology, licensed in OPQ test for personality analysis, and has worked as recruiting consultant at PharmaRelations and the Lifescience industry close to 10 years. This has given him a broad candidate network in all of the Nordic countries.

Martin has some 15 years of experience from Life Science where he has mainly worked with different quality related issues, such as GDP, GMP, QA. His two most recent positions have been as Head of Quality Assurance within Octapharma and Novartis. Martin holds a Master in Science in Pharmacy and is a registered Pharmacist.

Charlotte has a broad network with over 15 years of experience from Life Science. She has been working in different positions within sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry as Product Specialist, Product Manager and Nordic/Baltic Brand Manager. Charlotte holds a college degree in gynecology and obstetrics for midwifes and has several years of clinical experience.

Shiva has over 10 years of experience from the pharmaceutical industry and will work with our consulting business in Medical including RA, QA, PV with customer responsibility. Shiva has a solid understanding of customer needs in pharmacovigilance and Regulatory Affairs, both globally, Nordic and nationally. She also has experience from the consulting perspective as she worked as a PharmaRelations consultant based at a number of large and small companies as well as In House at PharmaRelations’ office.

Jukka has over 17 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry in Finland and the other Nordic countries. He has held various positions in both marketing and sales, including Product Specialist, Product Manager, Nordic Brand Team Leader and Marketing & Sales Director.

Piia has great experience from versatile work and positions within the Pharma business Medical and Marketing departments.

Sari has over 25 years of experience in Sales & Marketing in Life Science sector, especially Medical Devices (products & product related services) both B2B and B2C. She has deep knowledge of Finnish healthcare sector and its stakeholders f. ex. public sector, purchasing units, tender business & tender process. She has held several positions including Commercial Training Manager, Sales Manager and Product Manager. 

Kim has 15 years of experience from the Danish pharmaceutical and med-tech industries. He has a broad experience of management, leadership, strategy, marketing and sales. Kim has worked as Sales Representative, Product Manager, Sales Manager, Franchise Head and Business Unit Manager with experiences from more than 12 therapeutic areas.

Lise has 30 years of experience from the Danish Life Science industry. She brings broad experience of Management, Leadership, Project and Product Management, Sales Excellence. She has held various positions as Product Specialist, Product Manager, Sales Manager, Sales and Marketing Manager, Sales Excellence and Business Unit Manager. She is experienced within 18 therapeutic areas.

Ida Wenger-Parving started her career in the pharmaceutical industry and has both worked in Denmark and internationally through 10 years, in bigger and smaller Life Science companies. Ida has primarily worked in sales, sales management and clinical development. For the last 10 years Ida has worked in the Recruitment industry, focusing on headhunting and recruitment, mainly to the Life Science Industry in Denmark.

Lisbeth holds a Master of Pharmaceutical Affairs (MPRA) and bring approx. 20 years of experience in registration of medicinal products and more than 10 years of Nordic management experience in the Life Science industry, among others as RA Manager and Responsible Person (RP) at Johnson & Johnson Consumer Nordic and Head of RA including acting RP at Reckitt Benckiser Nordic A/S. Lisbeth has also extensive experience in compliance review of promotional material across various product classifications.

Louise comes with a background within sales, recruitment and HR. Since 2007 Louise has been in the recruitment industry with focus on Life science. Furthermore Louise has been working as an inhouse recruiter and trusted adviser responsible for the Nordic and Baltic countries for one of the biggest MedTech companies in the world.

Sverre has a background from both pharma and medtech. He has an extraordinary track record from companies like Pfizer, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi, Philips Health Care and Baxter. His network is outstanding after so many yeas in the industry in a number of different companies and from other positions, like board member in the  Norwegian Pharmaceutical Association. 

Kåre Opland has a background from the Pharma- and MedTech industry. He has held different positions such as Pharmaceutical Consultant and Administrative Director at Astra, Alpharma, Novartis, Serono, Nordic Vision and Curato. His most recent position was as General Manager at Handicare.