Smart packaging to protect pharmaceuticals from counterfeiting (Intelligent and Smart Packaging 2005)

Mr Michael Bergey, Vice President Business Development
Cardinal Health, United States
 

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Summary

Smart packaging to protect pharmaceuticals from counterfeiting: brand security and anti-counterfeiting solutions to protect your products and your reputation
  • What is brand security and why do you need it: the impact of counterfeiting on the pharmaceutical industry
  • How the counterfeiter exploits the supply chain
  • The overt and covert features of anti-counterfeiting technologies
  • Utilizing a layered technology approach
  • Case study
  • Future trends

Company Profile

Cardinal Health is the leading provider of products, services and technologies supporting the health care industry. Cardinal Health develops, manufactures, packages and markets products for patient care; develops drug delivery technologies; distributes pharmaceuticals and medical, surgical and laboratory supplies; and offers consulting and other services that improve quality and efficiency in health care. Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health employs more than 55,000 people on six continents and produces annual revenues of more than $50 billion.
 
Cardinal Health is ranked No.17 on the current Fortune 500 list and named one of the best U.S. companies by Forbes magazine for 2004.

Speaker CV

Mike has recently returned to Cardinal Health in Philadelphia, PA, assuming the role of VP of Business Development for the packaging services group. For a period of 15 months, he served as the director of Perceptive Packaging Solutions, a subsidiary of IPS based in Lafayette Hill, PA. At PPS, Mike was focused on client development and consulting for packaging engineering specific opportunities. At Cardinal, Mike is responsible for ensuring that strategies are developed to commercialize promising new business opportunities for packaging services, and to explore additional growth opportunities for Cardinal's Pharmaceutical Technologies and Services business unit. Mike draws on his 18 years of regulated industry experience, including 5 previous years in an engineering leadership role with Cardinal. For that period of time, Mike was responsible for process development and engineering support for the packaging services specialty business unit, which concentrated on the assembly and packaging of home use kits for large biotech customers. Prior to joining Cardinal, Mike spent a total of 10 years with the Johnson and Johnson family of companies, starting with McNeil Consumer Healthcare, then moving on to Cordis and finally Johnson & Johnson / Merck. Mike earned his B.S., Business Administration from Thomas Edison College, with a concentration in Operations Management.