Regis Simard

Regis Simard is a Mechanical Engineer and also holds an MBA. He has held senior management positions in the Electronic and Tech industries (Sony, Konica-Minolta) and in the Healthcare and Medical devices industries (Covidien) where he gained valuable experience working with Japan,China, UK and France. 

Regis joined GlaxoSmithKline in 2005 as Site Director at the GSK France plant at Notre Dame de Bondeville, then moved to GSK House UK to lead the Antibiotics and Latina Manufacturing cluster. 

In January 2011, Regis was appointed Commercial Partner Emerging Markets & Asia Pacific and in January 2013 Regis was appointed to Senior Vice President /Head of Europe and EMAP Pharma Supply. 

Regis moved into his latest role as Senior Vice President, Global Pharma Manufacturing (GMS) in January 2017. This position includes overseeing 17 factories and 10,000 employees globally, plus GMS global planning, and two franchise supply chains covering speciality and respiratory. Regis is also a member of the Supply Chain Executive team. 

Specialties: Leadership. Manufacturing. Supply strategy. Business Development. Lean & 6 Sigma. People Development. 

Diverse and broad experience of manufacturing,leadership to distil complexity and convey clear strategic direction, high levels of commerciality and customer/patient focus, incisive and focused when it comes to driving delivery, strong interest in people development.  He is also a certified Six Sigma Black Belt.