‘You can’t afford to drag with suboptimal performance.’ Johanna Rossell, SVP General Manager Rare Diseases at Sumitomo Pharma America, has a wide range of professional experience to draw on when it comes to commercial biopharma. Her career has taken in stints in marketing and commercial across South America, Switzerland, and the US for a number of large companies prior to her recent experience as CCO of Enzyvant. Joe Knight, our Life Sciences Commercial Consultant, welcomed Johanna to the Venari Podcast for another episode of the Chief Commercial Officer series, where she opened up on what she’s learned from launches, when to bring in commercial teams, and her leadership philosophy of the ‘coach manager: the coach that can lead the multi-functional team’ while thinking long-term.