Carsten Deuster (56) will establish DZ-CON GmbH, an independent consulting and training company. The long-standing managing partner will leave SKM Consultants GmbH at the end of 2023, together with his team of direct reports, in order to independently offer tailor-made training and consulting services to existing and new customers in the future.

We have a new addition to our public affairs team with Tim Schütz having joined us as a consultant on 1 March 2023.

SKM continues to grow: Laura Plum has been working from our Düsseldorf office as a consultant since February 2023.

The pharmaceutical industry is not as noble as it portrays itself, but it is also far better than its public image suggests. Could one possibly be related to the other? A personal plea by Christian Koof to change the industry’s “patient first” narrative and instead focus on research as a credible motive.

In an interview, Christian Koof and Carsten Deuster look back on the past 20 years of SKM’s history. It is a time in which a lot has happened. But we still have a lot more ahead of us.