Pharmaceutical Consulting Company

About ELS Group
“We are not here for good enough. We are here for good.“

Our vision

We work diligently every day to offer our clients time and innovation, in the form of early launches, full M&A, quick, agile and insightful completion of new business deals, and efficient registration of new services.

We aspire to be an unavoidable reference for access to innovation in the pharmaceutical market and its engine of growth in Europe and Latin America.

We work with external and internal clients based on these values.

  • Commitment
  • Attitude
  • Clarity
  • Pragmatism
  • Simplicity
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Sense of Urgency

Our certifications

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ISO 13485
ISO 9001
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Meet our leadership.

Professor Doctor Diogo Sousa Martins

  • Certified Board Member by the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance and the Portuguese Institute of Corporate Governance.
  • + 25 years as an executive in the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Industry
  • Former CEO & President of several pharmaceutical companies in the USA, EU, and Brazil.
  • President of the Health and Pharmaceutical Committee of the OPCR, 2018-2021 (Portuguese Observatory of Compliance and Regulation)
  • Professor and Researcher at the University of Lisbon
  • Inventor of 9 PCT patents.
  • Post-doctoral researcher, Ocular Pharmacology, University of Lisbon, Portugal
  • Ph.D., Ophthalmology, Unifesp, Brazil
  • MSc. in Strategic Marketing, UCP
  • MBA, major in Marketing, UCP
  • Postgraduate degree in Competitive Analysis, ACI/Harvard
  • Pharm. D., University of Lisbon, Faculty of Pharmacy
  • Over 150 oral presentations at international conferences.
  • Winner of the CAPES award (granted by the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology)
  • Master in Strategic Negotiations, Harvard Business School, USA
  • Class of 64, OPM Harvard, Harvard Business School

Meet our Board

Holds a degree in Marketing Management and over 30 years of experience in management roles within the healthcare sector. After holding various management positions in multinational pharmaceutical companies such as MSD, Roche, Schering-Plough, and Nycomed (Takeda), he was also, in recent years, Commercial and Marketing Director at Tecnifar. He was President of Markinfar (Portuguese Association of Marketing and Sales Professionals in the Pharmaceutical Industry). He is certified by APPM as a Senior Marketing Professional and certified in Coaching by the ICC. He teaches in several Executive Master’s programs (European University and CESIF) and Postgraduate courses (Catholic University). Currently, he is a member of the Advisory Board of ELS Solutions and an Executive Coach at Lead & Coach. As a volunteer, he is part of the Executive Committee of the Portuguese Cardiology Foundation.

Holding a degree in Business Organization and Management from ISCTE, he has collaborated with several Portuguese universities in Master’s degree programs in the areas of information systems and organizational behavior. He was Equity Partner and Senior Advisor at Eurogroup Consulting between 2011 and 2022, after which he has dedicated himself to management consulting on a freelance basis. Between 1997 and 2009, he was also Equity Partner at Deloitte (Consulting Division), during which time he also served as a European Member of the Global Steering Committee for Quality & Risk Management. Previously, between 1989 and 1997, he held the positions of Senior Manager at Price Waterhouse (Consulting Division), and Senior Consultant at the same company between 1982 and 1987. He also served as Planning Director at SOVIAL, AVIS Rent-a-car, between 1987 and 1989. He was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SPEA between 2010 and 2016. He is the author of numerous publications on various management topics and a occasional contributor to print media.

Key differentiators of ELS Group

A sense of urgency, offering innovation and personalization to our clients.

Consulting firm certified by:
ISO 13485:2016
ISO 9001:2015

Internationalization of companies with a strong presence in the EU and Latin America.

Customization of our services according to customer needs.

Extensive global regulatory knowledge

Secure Data Room

Cost optimization, avoiding multiple interactions with various third-party companies, in order to achieve the goal.

Adapting your technical data to higher or lower levels of country requirements with a view to cost optimization.

Risk reduction in defining the best regulatory strategy and, consequently, in the market entry strategy.

Technical optimization of the regulatory certification process.

Time and resource optimization

Our offices

European Headquarters
Latam Headquarters

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Strategic consulting for the pharmaceutical, healthcare, food, and medtech industries.

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