Kasia Hein-Peters, MD

“Kasia brings energy, enthusiasm and decades of pharma and medtech industry experience to help teams find the best paths to bring new products to market. Drawing on her deep understanding of evidence generation and how new therapies are adopted, Kasia takes a structured approach to marketing and strategy development, striving for unique approaches, messages and channels that will resonate with physicians, payors and patients. Kasia and I worked together to help our business units plan for growth and she was great at getting the teams to think strategically about organic growth, specifically helping our leadership think about how to drive greater physician adoption of our therapeutic devices.”

“Beyond the usual recommendations including specific keywords, adjectives and boxes that are ticked for any great mentor, there's a true story that Kasia offers for anyone who has the chance to work with her. Her background in health, psychology, and her genuine interest in mindfulness offers a true and inspiring model to take example from not only as a leader but also as a human being. Naturally, it makes the professional interaction with her as rich as it is rewarding: she trusts you to do your best and helps you give your best. Working with Kasia for three years and knowing her ever since was more than an opportunity for my career growth: she gave me the resources and learnings to glean from to be a person today. And I'm lucky and grateful for that.”

“Kasia and I worked together at Merck for a number of years on a daily basis. Kasia brings a big picture, open-mind thinking with strong professionalism to every engagement. Kasia always solve for how innovation can benefit both the patient and the innovator, using her extensive business acumen, deep experience, and comprehensive strategic skills. It has been a enormous pleasure to work with Kasia and a joy to know her and experience her many talents.”

“Kasia is not only a talented and experienced professional, but also behaves with her team and transversaly as an open minded and forward looking coach to all stakeholders. She takes time to build the rational of her strategies, with comprehensive methodologies and hard facts. ”

“Kasia is showing a strong leadership driving the strategy of her business and her team. Great Marketing expertise”

“My first impression of Kasia was that she was impressive, intelligent and saw straight to the heart of any issue. Her professionalism and integrity were a constant inspiration to me, and I found her easy and cheerful to work with. Kasia is very inclusive as a colleague and ensures that all appropriate measures are taken to ensure that results are delivered without sacrificing people or relationships.”

“Kasia is collaborative, efficient, action-oriented and results driven. She is open to new ideas and approaches and values creative problem-solving. She also is a pleasure to work with, given her sense of humor, approachability and even-keeled nature.”

“I had a pleasure to work with Kasia first in Eli Lilly Poland and than in Novartis Vaccine and Diagnostics.Kasia is excellent leader, very well organised, tasks oriented, pragmatic and energetic. She has excelent communication skills and ability to "listen" people. Very nicely manage the team.”

“Kasia is an excellent team leader, empathic and energetic. Her international marketing background makes her very versatile allowing Kasia to take successfully any type of high level responsibility.”

“I had the pleasure to work with Kasia closely on a Pilot project launched in the Czech Republic. She is one of the nicest people I have ever worked with. Very enthusiastic about her work, target oriented, efficient and reliable. I admire her leadership skills and power to motivate people literally all around the world.”

“Kasia has been a real pleasure to work for. She challenged me out of my comfort zone but has also provided me all the necessary support to ensure my success. Kasia provided me the flexibility to chart my own course in tackling initiatives, but has always been available if I needed to leverage her experience or get a second opinion. Kasia is highly supportive and motivating and brings out the best in people.”

“I had the pleasure of working with Kasia at Novartis. Kasia is an excellent leader and manager of far flung team members, agency partners, and 3rd party collaborators. One of the main things you notice Working with Kasia is her great understanding of the strategic situation of the brand and franchise which leads to sound decision making. I collaborated with Kasia on digital media and Kasia did an amazing job of integrating the various online and offline pieces together to develop a coherent overall communications strategy as well as an integrated measurement strategy.”

“Kasia and I worked closely together to introduce various global PR, stakeholders management and advocacy initiatives for Menveo in the Asian region during her time as Global Brand Director, Menveo. Kasia was truly a delightful global partner to work with as she was always responsive and fast to respond to my requests for help. She has a great listening ear and ensured that APAC needs are heard and where appropriate, incorporated in our global advocacy strategy. Kasia's focus on driving implementation excellence across geographies was evident in how she cascaded information quickly, proactively offering ideas to countries and ensured best practice sharing amongst countries via webex, emails or TCs. In a nutshell - a truly collaborative global brand director with strong marketing competency.”

“I thoroughly enjoyed working with Kasia at Novartis. She is diligent and collaborative. I have been impressed by her organizational skills and her deep industry knowledge. She has been a great help in my work, always willing to share the benefits of her experience with me. She will be a very valuable asset to any organization for whom she works.”

“I had the pleasure to be a colleague of Kasia first at Merck, then at Novartis. I strongly recommend her matter of fact - no-non sense approach of business issues. Her pragmatic focus along with her ability to cheerfully empower people always led the teams she was managing or supporting to buy in the projects and deliver more effectively. She uses her result-oriented business mind and her ability to create enthusiasm also when exploring innovative ideas, delivering effectively on pilot projects.”

“While working with Kasia, on India Gardasil Strategy it was amazing to see her deep understanding of the market evolution. She is a great strategist, strong motivator. Her Marketing Inputs always helped us to create Gardasil as a strong brand. She is passionate about her work and a great team player.”

"One of the most approachable, highly innovative and extremely hard working supervisor I came across. One of her best ability is to make her fellow colleagues feel empowered with her ability to delegate work to the right person while helping them in their improvement in learning curves. Her extensive international experience adjust perfectly with adjusting the cultural diversities. She has an excellent sense of leadership through her vast acumen of team building and strategic executions."

“Perseverance and focus - two key qualities Kasia demonstrated when she was leading the European Marketing Team I was member of at Merck. She has been able to identify best practices from some EU and non-EU countries and help others countries use these practices for improving their own performance. Precious skills when managing such a pool of diverse and culturally different people some several different markets.”

“I worked with Kasia in the same team as an EMEA Marketing Director at Merck &co. Kasia has a strong business acumen and is very driven and passionate on all the things she does. Highly recommended as a high performing individual with outstanding potential. Kasia is well organized and can successfully lead a high potential team. I would recommended Kasia for key managerial positions within a leading pharmaceutical company.”

“I worked closely with Kasia to introduce the concepts of e-marketing with her marketing and sales team. Kasia has extensive international experience and brought strong and motivational leadership. Hence, her team embarked quickly on these opportunities and rapidly realized important business benefits. It was a true pleasure to work with such a professional and seasoned marketeer and business leader.”

“Kasia is a really great colleague to work with. We have worked together for over 2 years on the int'l vaccines market (public & private sector). I've been very impressed with her broad and detailed knowledge, her marketing expertise, her networking and customer focus, her way to make things happen, her cultural sensitivity and positive, constructive approach. She's a pleasure to work with, both professionally and personally.”

“I had the pleasure of working with Kasia for a number of years as Senior Marketing Directors in the Europe, Middle East, Africa and Canada division of Merck, based in New Jersey. These were extremely demanding positions that required immense travel commitments and called for a blend of strong influencing skills and marketing professionalism which Kasia embodied in all her work. Kasia has moved on to build her career in the US and I would thoroughly recommend her work, her expertise and the necessary attributes to be a high-flying professional, but with the right "human touch" that reflects her personality.”

“Kasia has years of international experience, especially with the European countries in her position as Marketing Director. Kasia is also very good at leading and working productively in cross-functional teams.”

“Kasia is a seasoned marketing professional with extensive international experience. Deeply committed to customers and acutely focused on business priorities, Kasia is a valued colleague and a privilege to have on any team.”

“Kasia has been an extraordinary colleague in the 3 years we worked as European Marketing Directors in a demanding international role, based in New Jersey, but traveling extensively. Kasia is a very reliable and solid senior marketing professional with good business instincts, with a structured and planned approach, with creative strategic insights, whilst dedicated to success and focused on the performance goals. She has a natural leadership style and is apt in steering and motivating teams towards superior results. Kasia is a warm personality and a pleasure to be around, always in the best of moods, with a contagious smile and a great sense of humour.”

“I had the pleasure of performing alongside Kasia in the same role in different teams. I admired Kasia's positivity and enthusiasm in all that she did. Under difficult circumstances, she always managed to bring warmth and optimism to the table. Kasia was clearly well respected by people on her team, and was a great advocate for our European markets. I wish everybody that has the good fortune to work with Kasia the same joy that I had.”

“Kasia has been an outstanding leader for one of the key Franchises of Merck. She is very intelligent, very focused and organized. It is great to see how much Kasia and her team had accomplished and her vision of the future. Additionally has an excellent communication.”

“Kasia is incredible. She has the ability to evaluate the issues, determine which need action and get the right people around the table to solve the problem. I have always been impressed with her work ethic, her drive and her sensitivity to others. I have enjoyed and valued our professional relationship.”

“I have worked with Kasia in a number of roles, I have always enjoyed working with her and found her very smart, hard working, and willing to take on multiple tasks. I would welcome a chance to work with her again.”

“Despite the very short period that I worked with Kasia in the same group but I was always impressed with the way she handle the work , and how she encourages the team spirit amongst the group You are a wonderful person Kasia Samir Bata”

“I have known Kasia for over a number of years. I have been particularly impressed with her dedication. She is a very dedicated and kind pharma professional, who values strong work ethics and positive communication. She has good judgment. Her experience in hospital business is an additional asset. Plus, she has strong skills in coordinating an international team.”

“I do appreciate collaborating with Kasia. She is a very pragmatic person, very much at ease in international environment involving numerous cultures and market situations. She is able to combine strategic and tactical approaches and demonstrated in many occasions strong leadership skills.”

“Kasia is an excellent professional with a great capacity of work and something with added value to me is that she has a large experience in the Pharmaceutical area, with a wide knowledge of different countries and markets behaviors.”

“I had the pleasure and privalege of working with Kasia over a number of years. Kasia has excellent in depth expertise in pharmaceutical Marketing practice (both genearlly and in Hospital and Speciality areas specifically), and is also very experienced in multiple International regions and countries. Kasia has a proven track record of success due to both her excellent skill set and her highly effective management style, and I would have no hesitation in recommending her.”

“Kasia was an extremely strong team mate when we worked together on GARDASIL. She excelled at creating marketing strategies and materials that were convincing and compelling in a competitive global environment. She was also very good at teaching the international counterparts how to best market the brand and that really helped grow the market.”

“Kasia is a very competent and dedicated director, dedicated to her work and the persons working with her She is direct to the point and extremely convincing in building a marketing , action or competitor outmanoeuvre plan, in handling objections and in resolving very difficult issues She listens to, respects and values customers and colleagues ideas, feelings and opinions”

“I had the great pleasure of working with Kasia in her role as EMD in a niche hospital only product market. Kasia showed exceptional abilities in her strategic market planning skills and in co-ordinating a very diverse team of individuals across a wide range of countries and backgrounds. It comes as no surprise to me that Kasia has since been promoted to a global role on the strengths of her European achievements.”