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57. Ashraf Mallak
Company: Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD)
Designation: Associate Vice President, Managing Director—GCC
Nationality: Jordanian
Global Headquarters: U.S.
Sector: Pharmaceuticals
Mallak joined MSD in 2002 and has almost 20 years of industry experience. He oversees a team of around 328 people in his current role. In 2022, MSD launched an oral antiviral medicine for Covid-19 in the GCC and also introduced its broad pneumococcal vaccine in the region.