Neda Nasseri, pharmacist and product director, drug benefits, Desjardins Insurance

Health-care innovator by day and organizer by night, Neda Nasseri strives to make health care more accessible, equitable and affordable. She’s a pharmacist with experience in both community pharmacy and in the pharmaceutical industry, notably in biosimilars and diabetes. Currently, she works in the private payer sector at Desjardins Insurance as a product director for drug benefits. She has worked on the insurer’s family building offer as well as its healthy weight initiative and its women’s health offer. She has a master’s in pharmaceutical sciences as well as a master’s of business administration. Nasseri has also specialized in marketing and ethics.