The 2019 Global Leaders in Consulting: Gemma Pfister

As part of this, she has been able to create and lead new strategies in healthcare, including launching breakthrough products and devices, standing up new functions and organizations in healthcare, and adapting to shifting market and customer dynamics and needs.

"In different settings, I built and led business teams growth and diversification, and am now bringing my knowledge and experience to Vynamic, while further expanding my horizons and capabilities in Healthcare Industry Management Consulting," Pfister says. "The impactful results I have helped my Global clients to achieve, which evidence my overarching desire to consistently be a trusted advisor committed to listening, co-creating, innovating and transforming."

Pfister is a global innovator and dual-threat healthcare industry management consultant; fusing deep scientific knowledge with keen business sense on every client engagement. This powerful combination has enabled her to unlock innovation for her global and international life sciences clients for over 20 years. The impact of Gemma's work across healthcare is significant; spanning biologics, small molecules, biosimilars, generics, devices and diagnostics. She is also the founding member of Vynamic's London office.

What makes her successful? "Resilience through the highs and lows, while embracing change and creating opportunities to lead and innovate," she says. "In addition, a deep drive to push boundaries for myself, with a desire to continually learn and advance."

Her experience traverses all major disease areas, and rare diseases, on a Global or Regional level. Her functional expertise includes building product, portfolio, and business transformation solutions for commercial and medical functions. Pfister has advised hundreds of clients, catalyzing positive change for thousands of client employees and the countless patients that they serve. 

With a scientific background, she enjoys the opportunity that the healthcare industry provides to apply expertise in a complex and fast-changing space with a mission to enhance people's health and lives, she says. "Getting to know my diverse clients and uncovering their needs, and bringing my strengths and those of others to their benefit, Pfister says. "And I like dynamism and change—no day is ever identical, giving a rich experience with scope to interact with interesting people with varied roles, objectives, geographies and cultures."

Q&A: What does being recognized as a Global Leader in Consulting mean to you? Your firm? Your clients?

"It validates the path I have chosen for my career and ignites the fire in me to continue to stretch myself. It also makes me feel grateful to colleagues and clients with whom I have interacted, as their engagement and support has been instrumental in my experience and success along the way. "