eBook | Navigating Generative AI: Corporate Perspectives from Business Leaders

Generative AI is reshaping the landscape of business productivity. From Large Language Models (LLMs) to image generation tools, the potential for innovation is boundless. GLG’s survey of Corporate leaders and IT decision-makers demonstrates high enthusiasm to experiment with generative AI, but also a lack of preparedness to adopt the new technology. As businesses move forward […]

Navigating the New Cybersecurity Environment

GLG recently partnered with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to survey 600 of GLG’s chief information security officers (CISOs) on the state of cybersecurity including spending habits, practices and outcomes, technology stack, product categories, risks, and pain points. GLG collaborated on design to ensure a balanced representation across geographies and industries, programmed the survey to optimize […]

Generative AI: Legislation or Self-Regulation?

Generative AI holds both promise and risk for global brands, to say nothing of the college student looking for homework help. Simply defined, generative AI creates different types of content — such as text, images, and audio — based on machine learning language models capable of consuming large amounts of text. This content can appear […]

ChatGPT: Will the Future Be AI Generated?

[Ed. Note: The introduction to this article was written by ChatGPT.] This Q&A features Barak Turovsky, a GLG Network Member and artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) expert who shares his insights on ChatGPT, a language model developed by OpenAI. Turovsky compares ChatGPT with other AI and large language model (LLM) technologies and […]

Survey | The Automotive Semiconductor Supply Chain

COVID-19 had already caused a titanic disruption to global semiconductor supply chains when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine dealt them another serious blow. Russia and Ukraine are major providers of two of the most important materials in semiconductor manufacturing: neon and palladium. Manufacturers have few alternative sources for these materials. Such challenges have rolled down to […]

Post-Pandemic E-Commerce Trends in Southeast Asia

There’s no question that, in 2020 and beyond, retailers focusing on e-commerce saw rapid growth globally because of the lockdowns and travel restrictions associated with COVID-19. But how did that growth manifest among consumers in Southeast Asia, specifically? And as we speed toward the end of 2022, what can be predicted for this market moving […]

How Clean and Climate Tech Became a Good Investment

Clean and climate tech just might heal the planet. But clean tech hasn’t always been a good investment. Early on, it experienced several years of boom-and-bust cycles. But if clean tech 1.0 was about energy and efficiencies, climate tech is about everything and evolution. The new dawn of climate tech is about acknowledging our planet’s […]

How IoT Is Disrupting the Global Elevator Market

Predictive maintenance and technologically powered connectivity in the form of the Internet of Things (IoT) are changing the elevator industry. To find out what these changes are and how they are shaping the business, GLG’s Sam Stopps recently hosted a teleconference featuring Patrick Bass, now a consultant and formerly the North American CEO and President […]

Is India’s Artificial Intelligence Market Overhyped or Revolutionary?

As in other areas around the world, the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) has received a lot of attention in India, especially considering the country’s experience in dealing with the COVID pandemic. In India’s case, is the attention warranted? Will AI/ML truly revolutionize businesses and the consumer experience in India? To […]

eBook| Perspectives on the Metaverse: Exploring our Digital Future

The Metaverse is still very much in construction, we have yet to see what form it might ultimately take and how it will impact our lives and businesses. All we know now is that it will have some impact, but what will it be and how much change will it provoke? In GLG’s Perspectives on […]

Understanding Human Capital Management

From large global firms to small businesses, every company needs a way to manage its human capital. Payroll and human resources are critical to any successful enterprise that employs people. To make it work, most companies purchase human capital management systems (HCMS) to help them keep track of their employees’ needs. Competition among service providers […]

E-Commerce Opportunities in India

After several years of consumer use, e-commerce has fully arrived in India. While many people still prefer to shop at local mom-and-pop shops, shopping online has become an accepted practice. People know they will receive what they buy online, that it can be returned if necessary, and that the companies involved are reliable and can […]

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.