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Bill Taranto

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527 total appearances

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Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Merck’s GHI Fund and the Push to Rewire Pharma's Future

Theirs was a little bigger where we committed a lot more equity and they committed a lot more equity.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Merck’s GHI Fund and the Push to Rewire Pharma's Future

commercial dollars because it's just a bigger market than the Asian markets.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Merck’s GHI Fund and the Push to Rewire Pharma's Future

But the same idea was how do we then be able to deploy capital in those markets?

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Merck’s GHI Fund and the Push to Rewire Pharma's Future

So now we're not only the U.S., we're deploying, I think we have five investments now in the Asia Pacific market.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Merck’s GHI Fund and the Push to Rewire Pharma's Future

We have three in the Europe market.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Merck’s GHI Fund and the Push to Rewire Pharma's Future

We want to launch this in the Latin American market in the next year to 18 months as we build out those two markets.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Merck’s GHI Fund and the Push to Rewire Pharma's Future

So keep expanding, which then gives us a bigger footprint.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Merck’s GHI Fund and the Push to Rewire Pharma's Future

And then over time, I think the goal is

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Merck’s GHI Fund and the Push to Rewire Pharma's Future

would be if these grow to a certain size, we would like to have personnel sitting in those markets.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Merck’s GHI Fund and the Push to Rewire Pharma's Future

Expand GHI to have a local staff in the Asian market, local staff in Europe, and a local staff in Latin America.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Merck’s GHI Fund and the Push to Rewire Pharma's Future

And then that would truly make us a global investing arm.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Merck’s GHI Fund and the Push to Rewire Pharma's Future

But we're doing the best we can with the resources we have and the way we're structured as a kind of a U.S.-focused arm.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Merck’s GHI Fund and the Push to Rewire Pharma's Future

But the reality is we have to pay attention globally.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Merck’s GHI Fund and the Push to Rewire Pharma's Future

And it's allowed us to do that without, you know,

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Merck’s GHI Fund and the Push to Rewire Pharma's Future

doing too much infrastructure costs of putting people in place yet, but allowing us to use the infrastructure of Merck with our MSD organizations to build these out.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Merck’s GHI Fund and the Push to Rewire Pharma's Future

But this has been really successful the last 18 months.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Merck’s GHI Fund and the Push to Rewire Pharma's Future

And gentlemen and myself, Joel Crixton has been leading that.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Merck’s GHI Fund and the Push to Rewire Pharma's Future

And it's been one of our very successful venture ideas that we've had in the last 18 months.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Merck’s GHI Fund and the Push to Rewire Pharma's Future

Yeah, well, certainly AI is going to dominate the conversation, right?

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Merck’s GHI Fund and the Push to Rewire Pharma's Future

And that's going to be the driver of a lot of investment in health care.