Guy Villax Hovione

Guy Villax has been Hovione's CEO since 1997, having previously worked at Price Waterhouse in London and Hovione in Asia.
Guy Villax was on the EFCG’s Board from 2004 to 2016 being involved in many EFCG advocacy activities: IP, environmental protection, trade issues, quality of medicines and patient safety.
He testified in 2007 before a US Congress sub-committee on the risks of globalization of the pharma supply chain, falsified medicines and the weak oversight of regulators over API producers located abroad.
He represented the EU API industry in the negotiations with the US FDA during 2011 that resulted in the Generic Drugs User Fee Act (GDUFA) - for faster approval of ANDAs and a sharp increase in FDA inspections in India and China.
Guy Villax was a board member of Rx-360 from 2010 to 2017, having been Chair in 2016/17. Guy Villax has a degree in Management from Buckingham University, he is fluent in English, French, Portuguese, Italian and Spanish.
As a CEO Guy has led Hovione over the last 23 years. Hovione employs over 1800 employees worldwide and stood behind over 18 approvals of new drugs by the FDA between 2015 and 2019.