President and General Manager
Bristol Myers Squibb Brazil

Gaetano is a successful agent of change with solid general management experience within the complexity of the pharmaceutical industry with a wide range of experiences in Strategic and Line assignments. He is passionate about customers, interacts with them regularly and asks organizations to do the same without exception. Energetic leader, enthusiastic about what he does, leads by creating an environment where the teams feel valued and inspired to deliver objectives in a rewarding, engaged and challenging manner. With his Marketing background, Gaetano believes that strategies are only successful with excellent implementation. He focuses on ensuring that people are in the right place, with the right skills and with a clear understanding that their success is measured through results, not activities. Developing talent with specific focus on identifying his immediate successor has been one of his strengths. Team Success enables individual Success.
Communicating company strategy, values, talent development and performance is his top responsibility as a General Manager.

As an agent of change, he believes in influencing strategically the industry environment to improve patient access and make the Pharmaceutical Industry part of the solution, not part of the problem, in Health Care. Gaetano invests time in building consistent knowledge and contact with stakeholders by combining his strong social engagement with an emphasis on diversity & inclusion. He has a personal cause in improving racial equality of opportunities in Brazil. With solid experience in mergers and acquisition, Gaetano has consistently delivered positive outcomes and results in four different countries throughout four top multinational corporations: Eli Lilly, Abbott/ Abbvie (startup) and Bristol-Myers Squibb.