About us

Smart Pharma Consulting unique smart services

Since its creation, in 2001, Smart Pharma Consulting has strived to allocate its resources and develop its capabilities to:

Our consultants have an in-depth knowledge and understanding of healthcare markets:

• More than 30 years of experience in the healthcare environment
• A dedication to strategic, management and organizational issues for pharma and med tech companies
• More than 110 clients
• More than 100 publications
• Operational experience for several pharma companies (Novartis/Sandoz, Servier):
  • In various countries: Europe, Middle-East, Asia, Africa
  • At positions such as: country manager, sales manager, business intelligence manager

Since 2001, becoming smarter has been our corporate ambition…

… and delivering smart services has been our corporate mission

To do so, we have made the following radical choices that make us unique:

• Remain a consulting boutique (< 7 full-time consultants) to ensure higher agility and level of service quality
• Put innovation at the center of our priorities
• Offer our clients the possibility to get a 7/7 and 24/24 service (check!)
• Condition the payment of our consulting fees to our clients satisfaction
• Cultivate our passion about sharing & serving (as acknowledged by the pharma companies we have been working for)

Our triple expertise enables us to create synergies to deliver our clients unmatched services

Our clients

Our Senior Management Team

JEAN-MICHEL PENY

President

• Pharm. D.
• MBA – HEC Business School
• Postgraduate in International Business – IAE Lyon
• 1-year experience at Begin hospital
• 7-year experience as General Manager for pharmaceutical companies:
  • 3 years in Sri Lanka (Servier)
  • 3 years in India (Servier)
  • 1 year in France (Novartis Generics)
• 26-year experience in Strategy and Management consulting for the pharmaceutical sector
  • (Bain & Co, Arthur D. Little, AT Kearney, ISO Health Care Consulting/Monitor)
• 27-year teaching experience Lecturer
  • (ESCP Europe & ESSEC B-schools – Paris Pharmaceutical and Medical University)
• Former affiliate Professor (HEC B-school)

LAURENT CHESNEL

Senior consultant

• Graduated from KEDGE Business School (formerly ESC Bordeaux) – Specialization in audit, law and management control
• 10-year operational experience in Financial Audit at KPMG
  • 3 years as a Manager
  • Audit of statutory and consolidated financial statements, in French GAAP, IFRS or US GAAP
  • Specialization in the Technology Media & Telecommunication (TMT) practice
  • “Key accounts” clients (Capgemini, SFR, TF1, Vivendi)
• 5-year consulting experience with Smart Pharma Consulting