
Molecule to Market: Inside the outsourcing space
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Pharma outsourcing, from strategy to shop floor.
The gist
Molecule to Market is a business-focused interview show about the companies behind pharma and biopharma development. Conversations move from CEO career paths to CDMO capacity, cell and gene therapy tools, regulatory consulting, and the commercial bets shaping service providers.
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About Molecule to Market: Inside the outsourcing space
Molecule to Market covers the business machinery behind pharma and biopharma development. Its focus is the outsourcing ecosystem: CDMOs, CROs, regulatory consultancies, bioproduction tool providers, and the executives trying to build durable companies in a volatile market. The conversations are detailed. They are also personable. Episodes often begin with a leader's career path, then move into the harder operating questions: what to build, where to invest, how to read customer demand, and how to stay useful when clients rationalize suppliers. Interviews move across regulatory complexity at Eloquent Life Sciences, cell and gene therapy tools at BioLife Solutions, clinical development and regulatory affairs at Accelogen, and global manufacturing strategy at SK Pharmteco. Live DCAT recordings bring a different texture. There, the show captures senior CDMO voices talking about capacity, M&A, biologics growth, bioconjugation, formulation, and the pressure to skate toward demand before the market report makes it obvious. The tone is fluent in industry language without turning into a lecture. Acronyms are part of the air. So are questions about trust, value creation, risk sharing, and client communication. The show repeatedly returns to the idea that outsourced pharma work is not just technical execution; it is relationship-heavy, capital-intensive, and shaped by timing. It also gives listeners a close look at how leaders frame their own judgment. Some episodes lean into company origin stories. Others examine second-order market effects, such as GLP-1 demand crowding out capacity for other customers. The Pulse-style episodes are more trend-led, drawing together themes heard from CEOs, advisors, and C-suite voices. Across formats, the editorial value is consistency: serious sector conversations with enough warmth to reveal the person behind the role. Molecule to Market is best for listeners already working near pharma services, biotech operations, outsourcing strategy, or industry investing. It rewards people who care about the companies that make development possible after the science leaves the lab.
Made for: Designed for pharma services operators, biotech leaders, CDMO and CRO teams, investors, consultants, and anyone tracking how outsourced drug development actually functions.
What sets it apart: The show pairs executive career stories with concrete operating detail, moving easily from regulatory complexity and cryopreservation tools to DCAT-stage debates about capacity, M&A, and market timing.
In their own words
Molecule to Market takes you inside the global pharma and biopharma outsourcing ecosystem. Each week, our host Raman Sehgal sits down with the founders, entrepreneurs, CEOs and C-suite leaders shaping the pharma services and tools that power discovery, drug development and commercialization. Listeners get real stories and practical insights from across the entire value chain, from big pharma and emerging biotechs to private equity investors, CROs, CDMOs, technology platforms and specialist consulting firms. Our host Raman is an entrepreneur, investor, bestselling author, speaker and long time industry insider. https://moleculetomarketpod.com
As heard by us
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Executive interviews turn pharma outsourcing's technical shifts into clear questions about capacity, growth, partnerships and operating risk.
Molecule to Market follows the business decisions behind outsourced drug development, with Romain Segal pressing executives on where they invest, how they grow and what clients will need next.
Why you'd press play
CDMO capacity bets become your boardroom thought experiment before the market report arrives.
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- to hear C-suite operators explain where they'd invest when certainty is in short supply
- to understand the picks and shovels behind cell therapies, from cryopreservation to manufacturing
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Episodes
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The Indian CEO driving change
·51m - 2
DCAT Live - Morgan Stanley CDMO CEO Dinner
·46m - 3
DCAT Live Panel - Stick or Twist with Capacity in Times of Uncertainty
·52m - 4
DCAT Live Panel - Stick or Twist with Capacity in Times of Uncertainty
·52m - 5
From consulting stay at home dad to global CRO CEO
·57m - 6
From big pharma manufacturing lead to CDMO CEO
·53m - 7
M2M Pulse: 7 Trends CDMO You Can’t Ignore
·26m - 8
25+ years & 200+ deals - meet the prolific pharma dealmaker
·49m - 9
The 30-year, overnight success
·46m - 10
The CDMO CEO Operator Playbook for 2026
·34m - 11
The AI CEO changing pharma from the inside
·55m - 12
CDMO & C-suite headwinds for 2026
·29m - 13
Insights from JPM
·49m - 14
CDMO C-suite optimism pulse for 2026
·32m - 15
The AI entrepreneur fighting against cancer
·53m - 16
25+ years as pharma-focused PE fund
·46m - 17
2025 Unwrapped: Top 5 Episodes
·33m - 18
Doctor Entrepreneur who pulled off a $1.4b exit
·57m - 19
M2M Monitor Special - 2026
·25m - 20
The master building CEO leading Codis
·50m - 21
From R&D to CRO CEO
·50m - 22
M&A Roundtable Q4 2025 – Reflections and Predictions
·1h 13m - 23
From Pharma to CRO entrepreneur
·49m - 24
The CEO leading Ensera's evolution
·56m - 25
CPHI 2025 wrap-up
·29m - 26
20 years of CPHI - Veterans Guide
·34m - 27
Themes from PBOA Conference 2025
·42m - 28
The understated CDMO CCO
·55m - 29
Driving growth and removing waste for big pharma
·59m - 30
Riding the ups and downs of entrepreneurship
·43m - 31
Unlocking CDMO growth via commercial excellence
·55m - 32
Pharma services market sentiment at the midpoint of 25
·53m - 33
Doc to CEO - 40 years of reinvention in biopharma
·56m - 34
Meet the new boss of CPHI Europe
·44m - 35
30 years on the rollercoaster of clinical trials
·53m - 36
The rain-making, 2X exit founder
·57m - 37
The Indiana boy driving CGT development
·47m - 38
40 years, 6 exits - a CEO addict
·58m - 39
CDMO Live insights: Industry leaders on the future of pharma
·1h 16m - 40
The learning curve of a biotech founder/CSO
·49m - 41
The cancer Doc, driven by impact
·45m - 42
The GM focused on inhaled & nasal drugs
·46m - 43
The impact of a CEO who loves to work
·50m - 44
From brink of bankruptcy to boom
·56m - 45
The CEO addicted to challenge
·50m - 46
The COO leveraging the ‘power of we’
·51m - 47
The pharma CEO focused on US commercial growth
·51m - 48
The Spanish solid state specialist
·43m - 49
The bullish CDMO CEO making bold moves
·51m - 50
Geordie lad done good in pharma
·57m - 51
The CEO driven by lentiviral vector success
·49m - 52
The CRDMO CEO making his luck
·50m - 53
The biotech CEO focused on curing paediatric deafness
·53m - 54
Inside the mind of the CDMO customer
·53m - 55
The master-builder now on a cell therapy crusade
·49m - 56
From astrophysicist to biopharma industry leader
·55m - 57
From Big Pharma to Snapdragon
·53m - 58
The LATAM CRO Queen
·47m - 59
The pulse of Big Pharma CEOs
·56m - 60
How to plan for life sciences events in 2025
·42m - 61
Biopharma Global Supply veteran
·56m - 62
Meet the healthcare futurist
·53m - 63
The dynamic duo driving global growth
·54m - 64
Biopharma Insights: Live from J.P. Morgan
·40m - 65
The CEO making a global impact
·54m - 66
2024 reflections and 2025 outlook in pharma services
·45m - 67
From questions to answers: Celebrating 200 episodes
·46m - 68
Charles River's lifelong CDMO leader
·52m - 69
The pharma ingredients disruptor
·51m - 70
Baking success to IQVIA exit
·55m - 71
The biotech-MedTech CEO tackling obesity
·52m - 72
Delhi boy, done good
·57m - 73
Meet the Top Gun CDMO Maverick
·55m - 74
Tasty Topics: Navigating Novo Nordisk’s Acquisition of Catalent
·19m - 75
Pfizer's retired manufacturing veteran
·58m - 76
Reimagining drug development
·58m - 77
A lifetime of drug hunting
·51m - 78
The pink-haired CEO
·58m - 79
The Harvard spin-out disrupting drug discovery
·50m - 80
The rare disease champion
·46m - 81
The VC Biotech investor
·58m - 82
The diamond in the rough
·45m - 83
One-hour special - The President of the PBOA
·1h 2m - 84
The puzzle-solving CEO
·56m - 85
Summer sentiment: A life science industry check-in & where you'll find me
·23m - 86
Pivoting to partnership success in clinical trial
·52m - 87
A Sterling, CDMO leader
·1h - 88
AI as a force for good in drug development
·53m - 89
Harnessing tech to improve the economics of making medicine
·53m - 90
Tasty Topics: Addressing the potential impact of the BIOSECURE Act
·35m - 91
Becoming...a world class scientific leader
·45m - 92
Mission-driven doctor, inventor & entrepreneur
·55m - 93
The boomerang boy impacting gene therapies
·56m - 94
Taking on the biologics CDMOs from down under
·51m - 95
A true nerd of CGT
·55m - 96
The virtual and decentralized clinical trials specialists
·52m - 97
Jumping into CDMO after a lifetime as a sponsor
·51m - 98
Zero to a billion... A CDMO original - part 2
·54m - 99
The People-first CEO of FUJIFILM Biotechnologies
Roman Segal interviews Lars Peterson, CEO of Fujifilm Biotechnologies, about his people-first leadership approach and the company's role in the pharma and biopharma ecosystem.
·53m - 100
The CEO driving change at Curia
CEO Phil McNabb discusses his leadership at Curia, a major CDMO, and his background in healthcare and PE.
·45m - 101
The unconventional CEO
Hidden gemInterview with Tim Dietlein, CEO of Eluent Life Sciences, discussing his career and the pharma services industry.
Apr 17, 2026·46m·2 clips - 102
The Indiana boy driving CGT development
Hidden gemRoman Seagal interviews Sean Werner, Chief Technology Officer at BioLife Solutions, about cell and gene therapy tools, cryopreservation, and biopharma development.
Apr 10, 2026·47m·3 clips - 103
DCAT Live - Morgan Stanley CDMO CEO Dinner
Hidden gemMolecule to Market host Romain Tagal interviews Catalent CEO Alessandro Maselli and Simtra Biopharma Solutions CEO Franco Negron at the Morgan Stanley CDMO CEO Dinner during DCAT.
Apr 3, 2026·46m·3 clips - 104
DCAT Live Panel - Stick or Twist with Capacity in Times of Uncertainty
Hidden gemHost Romantical introduces a live panel recorded at DCAT discussing capacity decisions in times of uncertainty within the pharma services industry.
Mar 30, 2026·52m·2 clips - 105
DCAT Live Panel - Stick or Twist with Capacity in Times of Uncertainty
Host Romantical introduces a live panel recorded at DCAT about managing capacity in uncertain times, with a recap of a networking event.
Mar 27, 2026·52m - 106
From consulting stay at home dad to global CRO CEO
Host Romantic Al interviews Greg Plunkett, founder and CEO of Accelogen, about his journey from consulting to leading a global CRO in the pharma services industry.
Mar 20, 2026·57m - 107
From big pharma manufacturing lead to CDMO CEO
Host Romance Gal interviews Jorg Algrim, CEO of SK Pharmteco, about the pharma and biopharma outsourcing ecosystem.
Mar 13, 2026·53m - 108
M2M Pulse: 7 Trends CDMO You Can’t Ignore
Hidden gemGLP-1 demand is crowding out other CDMO clients, and J.D. Mary compares it to a longer-running vaccine boom.
Mar 6, 2026·26m·1 clip - 109
25+ years & 200+ deals - meet the prolific pharma dealmaker
Feb 27, 2026·49m - 110
The 30-year, overnight success
Hidden gemRoman Tagal interviews Julian Casciano, and Emacs Health Systems is framed around three service lines plus two tech platforms, Mava and HealthPacer.
Feb 20, 2026·46m·3 clips - 111
The CDMO CEO Operator Playbook for 2026
Feb 13, 2026·34m - 112
The AI CEO changing pharma from the inside
Feb 6, 2026·55m - 113
CDMO & C-suite headwinds for 2026
Jan 30, 2026·29m - 114
Insights from JPM
Jan 23, 2026·49m - 115
CDMO C-suite optimism pulse for 2026
Jan 16, 2026·32m - 116
The AI entrepreneur fighting against cancer
Jan 9, 2026·53m - 117
25+ years as pharma-focused PE fund
Jan 2, 2026·46m - 118
2025 Unwrapped: Top 5 Episodes
Dec 26, 2025·33m - 119
Doctor Entrepreneur who pulled off a $1.4b exit
Dec 19, 2025·57m - 120
M2M Monitor Special - 2026
Dec 12, 2025·25m - 121
The master building CEO leading Codis
Dec 5, 2025·50m - 122
From R&D to CRO CEO
Nov 28, 2025·50m - 123
M&A Roundtable Q4 2025 – Reflections and Predictions
Nov 21, 2025·1h 13m - 124
From Pharma to CRO entrepreneur
Nov 14, 2025·49m - 125
The CEO leading Ensera's evolution
Nov 7, 2025·56m - 126
CPHI 2025 wrap-up
Oct 31, 2025·29m - 127
20 years of CPHI - Veterans Guide
Host Romain Al announces his appearances at CPHI Frankfurt and previews a special episode focused on the pharma and biopharma ecosystem.
Oct 24, 2025·34m - 128
Themes from PBOA Conference 2025
Oct 21, 2025·42m - 129
The understated CDMO CCO
Oct 17, 2025·55m - 130
The CEO driving change at Curia
Oct 10, 2025·45m - 131
The People-first CEO of FUJIFILM Biotechnologies
Oct 3, 2025·53m - 132
Driving growth and removing waste for big pharma
Sep 26, 2025·59m - 133
Riding the ups and downs of entrepreneurship
Sep 19, 2025·43m - 134
Unlocking CDMO growth via commercial excellence
Sep 12, 2025·55m - 135
Pharma services market sentiment at the midpoint of 25
Sep 5, 2025·53m - 136
Doc to CEO - 40 years of reinvention in biopharma
Aug 29, 2025·56m - 137
Meet the new boss of CPHI Europe
Aug 21, 2025·44m - 138
30 years on the rollercoaster of clinical trials
Aug 15, 2025·53m - 139
The rain-making, 2X exit founder
Aug 8, 2025·57m - 140
The Indian CEO driving change
Aug 1, 2025·51m - 141
40 years, 6 exits - a CEO addict
Jul 25, 2025·58m - 142
CDMO Live insights: Industry leaders on the future of pharma
Jul 18, 2025·1h 16m - 143
The learning curve of a biotech founder/CSO
Jul 11, 2025·49m - 144
The cancer Doc, driven by impact
Jul 4, 2025·45m - 145
The GM focused on inhaled & nasal drugs
Jun 27, 2025·46m - 146
The impact of a CEO who loves to work
Jun 20, 2025·50m - 147
From brink of bankruptcy to boom
Jun 13, 2025·56m - 148
The CEO addicted to challenge
Jun 6, 2025·50m - 149
The COO leveraging the ‘power of we’
May 30, 2025·51m - 150
The pharma CEO focused on US commercial growth
May 23, 2025·51m