Frontiers Health Steering Committee spotlight: Roberto Ascione

Roberto Ascione is the CEO of Healthware Group (pharmaphorum’s parent company), Frontiers Health conference chair, and a member of the Frontiers Health Steering Committee. He’s been involved with the event from the early days, and he says he sees different ways in which pharma could integrate digital therapeutics.

“Given this is big, I don’t think there will be one way only,” Ascione says. “There will be successful build cases; there will be successful build and subsequent spin-out cases. There will be external partnerships and subsequent acquisitions. I don’t think there will be one path only. Certainly, we will have chemical-first and tech-second players and tech-first and chemical-second players, so to speak, and even pure tech only. What I don’t think we will have in the long run is chemical players only.”