Henry Gazay

Serial entrepreneur, Blue Economy and global Healthcare expert with 30 years experience.
Founder and General Partner of BluKap, a VC investment firm dedicated to the Ocean.
Ex-founder/CEO of Medimix International, a global life sciences Real World Data group serving primarily the TOP 50 pharma companies and with 11 offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. Sold Medimix to PPD-Evidera (NASDAQ: PPD) in 2019 and joined the group as SVP Real World Data solutions. PPD eventually merged with ThermoFisher (NYSE : TMO), world leader in scientific equipment.

With a passion for innovation and a provocative vision for the industry, Henry has pioneered online marketing and Real World Evidence (RWE) in the healthcare sector (mostly pharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostics), with experience in RWE, RWD, marketing, business insights, CRM and salesforce effectiveness.

Henry has received numerous awards and recognition of his career achievement, (e.g., European Community Expert (1999 DG XII - Brussels), appointment as French Trade Advisor by the French Prime Minister (2004-present). Three times a board member of the PBIRG Group (2007, 09, 10), and committee member at PMRG (2011), he has also been recognized by PharmaVOICE as one of the 100 most inspiring people of the pharmaceutical industry in 2012 and has been elected Board Director for University of Georgia MRII (2012-2013). Regular speaker at various conferences in the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, he has published or contributed to a variety of scientific papers presented at ESMO (2020), ISPOR (2020), Ephmra, PMRG, eyeforpharma and he is also a frequent contributor of editorial and expert commentary to many media outlets throughout the world.

Henry is Trilingual English/French/Spanish, fluent in Portuguese, conversant in German and Italian

Specialties: Blue Economy, Venture Capital, Expert in RWE, RWD and all aspects of Global Marketing for life science industries.