Steven Closter

Steve Closter has extensive commercial experience with an exceptional record of driving pharmaceutical product success from product development to maturity for well-known brands across multiple therapeutic areas. Steve excels at driving sustained growth through strategic and operational-level leadership of product launches, campaign development, resource deployment, lifecycle planning, and tactical plan execution. He has achieved top and bottom-line revenue growth with product experience ranging from pre-launch to patent expiration while contributing to major sales, marketing, market access and product development investment decisions. He’s launched and promoted blockbuster and specialty brands in both retail, hospital and health system environments across many therapeutic areas including Cardiovascular; CNS; Dermatology; Gastroenterology; Infectious Diseases; Neurology; Pain Management; Respiratory; Urology. Steve has been a Sales and Marketing leader during his career and currently runs the Strategic Marketing and Launch Excellence function at Sunovion driving pre-launch planning and important lifecycle management investment decisions across early and late-stage pipeline assets. Prior to Sunovion Steve contributed to the success of Forest Labs/Allergan over a nearly 20-year period launching multiple products across a variety of therapeutic areas. He holds an M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing / International Business from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a B.S. in Applied Economics and Business Management from Cornell University.