Mauro Severino Ajani

Biography

Italian (born 1955), founder and Board Member of Cosmo Pharmaceuticals since 2006 and main shareholder of Cosmo Holding S.a.r.l. (and thus indirectly of Cosmo Pharmaceuticals NV). CEO of Cosmo Pharmaceuticals from 2006 to 2014. Sole Director of Cosmo S.p.A. from 1998 to February 2001. From 1994 to 1996, he was the general manager of the Russian company Italcenter and took part in a joint venture of Italian and Russian entrepreneurs for the creation of a pharmaceutical product distribution company. He was a consultant of Pharmhispania from 1991 to 1993, an Italian-Spanish joint venture for the import/export and distribution of pharmaceutical products between Spain and Italy. In the period from 1983 to 1993, he was the marketing manager of Pharmajani S.r.l., a company engaged in the commercial distribution and logistics of pharmaceutical products. From 1980 to 1983, he was Nielsen’s area manager for over-the-counter products of the Serono OTC company while in the period from 1978 to 1980 he worked as a salesman for the Lepetit company and for the Gazzoni company in the OTC sector.  

Research Interest

Gastroenterology