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2018 PRMA CONVENTION • Hotel Verdanza, Isla Verde, PR

June 1st, 2018 (9:00 am - 5:00 pm)

8:30 AM Welcome & Remarks: Rodrigo Masses, President, PRMA

8:45 AM Program Alignment: The Before and After: Ramón Hernández, Acting Director, San Juan
District Office, Food and Drug Administration

9:45 AM The Emerging Pharma Industries in Puerto Rico: Rapid Development of Therapies
for Mosquito Borne Illnesses: Dr. David C. Foster PhD, JD; President, Isla Labs

10:15 AM An Outlook of the Pharmaceutical Industry Worldwide and How Puerto Rico
Continues Playing a Role: Opportunities and Challenges: Ricardo Zayas, BMS

11:00 AM A New R&D Based Pharmaceutical Model for Puerto Rico: Marc Ayers, Co-Founder,
CEO, President and Manager Romark, LLC (Key Note Speaker)

11:45 AM The US Tax Reform and the PR Incentive Code: How The New Economic
Development Model from PRMA will attract the Biopharmaceutical Industry to PR

Moderator: Elizabeth Plaza, Founder & Chairwoman, Pharma-Bio Serv

Panelists: Carlos Serrano, Esq., Kenneth Rivera, Esq., Javier Vázquez, Esq., Eng. Manuel Laboy,
Secretary of Economic Development and Commerce of Puerto Rico (DEDC)

1:15 PM Did You Know? Get to Know Innovative Models that Impact our Economy and
Patients Around the World.

Moderator: Verónica Cruz,Vice President, Global Quality, Romark, Global Pharma

Panelists: David Thompson, AbbVie; Diana Mercado, Amgen; Wanda Correa, Strategic Sourcing
Manager, Boehringer - Ingelheim; Víctor Merced: PRIDCO

2:15 PM Cannabis as a Phytopharmaceuticals Approach: An Industrial Manufacturing Model

focused on Quality
Moderator: Grace Santana, Esq., Chief of Staff, Knox Medical
Panelists: The Clinical Approach to Medicinal Cannabis: Dr. Jose Rodríguez Orengo, UPR
The Operational and Quality Control Model: Enrique Mirandés, Esq., Partner, Mr. Julián
Londoño, Majority Partner, NexGen Pharma

3:15 PM Puerto Rico Industrial Ambassadors: How we can help the Puerto Rico Industrial
Sector and the Puerto Rico economy from the mainland

Moderator: Javier Vázquez, Esq., O’Neill & Borges and Industrial Promotion Director, PRMA
Panelists: Franco Negrón, President, Commercial Operations, Pharma Services Group, Thermo
Fisher Scientific, MA
Herminio Bosques, Regional Procurement Lead, America’s, AstraZeneca, MD
Pedro Rosario, Director Capital and Asset Management Strategy, Global Engineering
Services, Abbott, Chicago
Evelyn Marchany, VP Technical Operations and Site Head, Novartis, NY

4:15 PM CLOSING, COCKTAIL & NETWORKING **COFFEE AND LUNCH

BREAK CONCURRENT
DURING PROGRAM