Yves Steffen has over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. In 2004 he began his career for Cilag AG (a Johnson & Johnson company) as project engineer focusing on drug product manufacturing and visual inspection lines. In 2006 he joined Novartis and held there several positions in commercial manufacturing such as plant engineering, product launches / transfer and commercial product responsibilities for Biosimilars. Since 2014 his focus area is medical devices and combination products and since 3 years Yves Steffen is heading the commercialization group of medical devices and combination products including secondary packaging at Novartis