The Strong Growth of India’s Food Delivery Sector Will Likely Continue

The Indian food market is massive. As of 2019, the organized food market that includes restaurants was worth $22 billion, of which online food delivery only made up about 15%. That shows the huge growth potential of the food delivery sector in the country. In 2020, India’s online food delivery market was valued at approximately […]

How Electric Vehicle Battery Prices Can Fall in the Coming Decade

At the 2016 General Motors shareholders meeting, Mark Reuss — who would become GM’s President in 2019 — told shareholders that the company was paying $145 per kilowatt-hour for the LG Chem cells used in the Bolt EV, which was coming out later that year. Today, those same cells are probably about $130 per kilowatt-hour. […]

What Amazon’s Acquisition of Selz Means for E-commerce

This past January, Amazon quietly acquired the Australia-based e-commerce platform Selz. Founded in 2013, Selz offers a Shopify-like platform that helps small and medium-sized businesses launch their own online stores and add online payment options to existing websites, among other tools. During the pandemic, as online sales boomed, Amazon has seen its third-party marketplace grow […]

Trends in Chinese Luxury E-commerce: Strong Growth in the Digital Era

E-commerce is growing among luxury brands, Due to the impact of COVID-19, the youth-led change in luxury consumption behavior, and the trend of e-commerce livestreaming, a growing number of brands have increased e-commerce investments. As the landscape heats up, how will the brands, luxury e-commerce players, and traditional e-commerce giants operate? How will the luxury […]

Australia Hits the Gas on Online Grocery

Australia hasn’t exactly been a leader in online grocery. The Land Down Under has been growing about five years behind the UK, both in terms of online grocery and fulfillment capabilities. Pre-COVID, online sales were only 4% of total supermarket sales in Australia, compared with 10% in the UK. But since COVID hit, grocers have […]

Growth Beyond China: Mass and Prestige Beauty Are Accelerating Across Asia

You’re probably already aware that the beauty industry is booming in China. Before the pandemic, China saw an average of about 7% growth year over year. These are pre-COVID years. The pandemic has disrupted that growth in 2020, but there are good indicators for the future. While China is certainly leading the way in Asia […]

Streaming Video Likely Permanently Damaged the Cinema Business

Movie theaters are in trouble in both the UK and U.S., with reports that Cineworld, the second-largest cinema chain in the world, is looking into a company voluntary arrangement as an insolvency mechanism that would shutter some of its locations permanently. Meanwhile, the UK entered another lockdown on November 5 that ordered theaters closed. To […]

GLG Convene: Plant-Based Alternatives in APAC

The plant-based market opportunity is growing too fast to be ignored. Long seen as a tipping point for mass adoption, plant-based foods’ recent rapid embrace by fast food chains and F&B conglomerates over the last couple of years has accelerated the range of product innovations in restaurants and store shelves. In this video, you’ll hear […]

With an Uncertain Future, Airline Bankruptcies Are Up in the Air

The airline industry is enduring one of its worst crises, with second quarter results the worst ever and the third quarter not expected to be any better. Bankruptcies are likely on the horizon for some U.S. carriers. To learn more about what that process may look like, GLG spoke with Mark Berman, a former partner […]

Cinemas Are Back, but the Road to Recovery Is Long

Theaters started reopening their doors around the U.S. in the beginning of August, propelled by new Hollywood releases such as Tenet and Unhinged. But business isn’t exactly thriving. Cinemas still have to adhere to strict sanitary rules to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and convincing audiences to come out hasn’t been easy. GLG spoke with […]

Can Walmart+ Repeat the Success of Amazon Prime?

COVID-19 flipped consumer behavior on its head, changing everything from what we buy to how we buy it. In September, Walmart responded to this shift with the launch of a new subscription program. Walmart+, the first major rival to e-commerce subscription service Amazon Prime, gives members exclusive access to unlimited free deliveries, an enhanced in-store […]

A Rough Road Lies Ahead for Corporate Travel

The travel industry has suffered massive losses because of the COVID-19 pandemic. To get a handle on the situation from the point of view of both providers and corporations, GLG spoke with travel industry expert Peter McFadden, former head of strategic partnerships at Expedia Group. Below are a few select excerpts from our October 19, […]

Speaker Biographies

Hilary Malone PhD, has over 25 years of experience in global drug development, regulatory &government affairs, manufacturing and commercialization within the biopharma industry. Hilary hassignificant board level and executive committee experience including large scale organizationalrestructuring/transformation/integration, major M&A, biotech start-up, capital raising, investorrelations and pre-IPO.​

Hilary is currently CEO of Stylus Medicine, a private genetic medicine biotech company. Previously sheserved as CEO of a Series-A neuroscience company. Prior to these roles, Hilary served as COO & EVP atValo Health Inc., Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP at Sanofi Inc., and Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP atPfizer and Wyeth. Previous experience also includes senior regulatory and drug development roles atReata Pharmaceuticals Inc., AstraZeneca plc and GlaxoSmithKline plc.​

Hilary also serves on the Board of Directors of Hansa Biopharma and Adthera Bio. Hilary holds a PhD inMolecular Neuropharmacology and a BSc in Physiology.

Dr. Thomas Lönngren is Director at his own company PharmaExec Consulting AB. He is the Chairman of the Board of directors at Egetis Therapeutics AB, Sweden. Dr Lönngren also serves as board member at Compass Pathways PLC, London UK and NDA Group, Sweden. He acts as advisor to the following companies and organizations: NDA group, Sweden, Sweden, Artis Venture, San Francisco, US, Fujimoto Japan, Skin2Neuron Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia, US, Special advisor to the Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science (CIRS), London UK. From 2001 until2011, Mr.Lönngren served as the Executive Director of the European Medical Agency. He was previously Deputy General Director of the Swedish Medical Product Agency until 2000. He has a degree in pharmacy and MSc in Social and Regulatory Pharmacy from Uppsala University. He is also an Honorary Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Great Britain, Honorary Doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Honorary Doctorate from University of Bath, UK.

Speaker Biographies

Marie-Anne Aymerich

Marie-Anne has built a portfolio of senior advisory and non-executive roles, following a successful international career in the FMCG and Luxury sectors. She is a non-executive director of Haleon, a FTSE100 company listed in 2022 after the demerger from GSK. She is also chairwoman of Haleon Environment and Societal Sustainability committee. She is the executive director of the Pierre Fabre Group where she also sits on the Strategic Committee, and she is a Board Member of The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, one of the world’s most prestigious chamber orchestras. She is also an angel investor and focuses her time and investments on start-ups with the strongest purpose and impact.

Marie-Anne is also a regular lecturer at HEC Paris on purposeful leadership, and she has created a serious game called “Planet Purpose” to upskill people on sustainability and purpose. Throughout her 35year executive career she delivered a strong track-record of business performance and growth in brands and portfolio in both developed and emerging economies.

As a senior leader with Unilever, she led a number of different personal care categories across France, Spain and the USA – including managing the Dove brand worldwide and culminating in leading Unilever’s global Oral Care division. She also worked for LVMH as Brand General Manager of Dior Perfumes and Cosmetics worldwide. Marie-Anne was also Vice-President of Imagine for Margo – Children with Cancer for ten years, a charity she helped found in 2011 with the goal of eradicating children’s cancer. The charity is the #1 charity focused on child cancer in France and has fundraised more than €14m since its creation. Marie-Anne is a graduate from HEC Paris. She is married and has two children aged 29 and 26.

Patrick Jephson

Patrick Jephson is a consultant, journalist, broadcaster and New York Times bestselling author, based in Washington D.C. He is a published authority on corporate and personal branding and crisis communications, addressing conferences worldwide as well as events at the U.S. State Department, the American University and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

With more than twenty-five years’ experience in the government, luxury and family office sectors, Patrick’s portfolio has included globally admired brands as well as national agencies and NGOs. He has also worked on reputation and legacy briefs with European, Middle Eastern and Asian families, including royalty. He now writes, presents, and advises on factual and drama TV programs, appearing on every major American and many international networks. He was recently an expert consultant to the award-winning Netflix series The Crown and provided live commentary on the Coronation of King Charles.

Patrick owes much of his practical communications and protocol experience to Princess Diana, who chose him to be her equerry and only private secretary/chief of staff. He served the Princess for eight years, responsible for all aspects of her public life, global humanitarian initiatives, and private organization. Having worked for an internationally high-profile woman (and as the father of two professionally successful daughters) he feels a special affinity for cross-cultural, gender and perception issues.

Patrick was born and raised in Ireland and holds a master’s degree in political science from Cambridge University. As an officer in the British Royal Navy, he served all over the world before being selected for royal duty. He is a citizen of the U.K., U.S.A., Ireland, and Canada.