Tomas Matthews

Promoted to Senior Director with global responsibility based in Germany reporting to Vice President Global Public Health. Leading a cross-functional team of more than 10 members with responsibility over Africa, Europe, US, Latin America and Asia. • Represented J&J in the Pandemic Preparedness & Response (PPR) Action Network, collaborating with other pharmaceutical companies to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. • Improved the culture of the 150-person department, implementing a range of initiatives, which resulted in outstanding survey results for consecutive years. • Performance recognized through 12 awards in 5 years.

Promoted to Global Director based in Panama reporting to Vice President Operations & Partnerships. Successfully held multiple global and regional responsibilities simultaneously. • Acted as WHO’s single point of contact for HIV, Tuberculosis (TB), Mental Health, and Soil Transmitted Helminths (STH) in Latin America. • Coordinated global access efforts in the fight against tuberculosis and successfully developed the market access strategy for the innovative HIV vaccine. • Received 6 performance awards.

Promoted to Regional Director for Latin America based in Switzerland reporting to Executive VP International & Government Affairs. The success in this role led to the expansion of responsibilities to support efforts in the Middle East & Africa region. • Successfully negotiated a record number of 14 partnership contracts and achieved extraordinary sales growth, resulting in a doubling of sales, for Latin America. • Overachieved sales targets representing more than half of the entire franchise sales for consecutive years as the primary point of contact for governments, WHO, UNICEF, and other crucial global and regional stakeholders for Middle East & Africa region as well as Latin America.

Led a team of over 10 regional and country leaders with a diverse range of duties. Based in Argentina, and later in Switzerland reporting to the Executive VP International & Government Affairs. • Successfully led the company's participation in 1 Global and 3 Regional congresses. • Negotiated Public Private Partnerships and identified opportunities for growth achieving remarkable business growth resulting in over 50 registrations and exceeding sales targets by approximately 30% for consecutive years.

Professor of negotiation with focus on international & intercultural negotiations. Teaching the Harvard method through practical cases demonstrating the importance of cultural aspects when negotiating with other countries and continents. Quality Leadership University / University of Louisville in agreement with Florida International University, Universidad de Chile, Towson University, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid & Illinois State University.

• Luis Pasteur Health Insurance for the pharma industry Corporate Accounts Executive / 2005 - 2007 • Lobov Científica S.A. (Pharma Distributor) Business Plan Development / 2005 • Columbia Laboratories (Pharmaceutical Company) Medical Sales Representative / 2004 • Networktech Hosting (Hosting & Technical support for companies) Sales Representative of technological solutions (Startup) / 2002 - 2004 • Med Keys (Medical Sales Representative’s Agency) Market Research Junior Manager / 2000 – 2002 • Laboratorio Clínico Descole (Clinical Lab & Tests) Digital Marketing & Communications / 1998 – 2000