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GBX Circle · London

The room
before the
room.

GBX Circle curates the closed-door forums where the decisions behind the decisions are made. Six specialist forums. One model. An invited audience of senior leaders who shape the direction of their industries from the inside.

Not a conference. Not a summit. A circle. The kind of room where nothing is on the record and everything moves forward.

photo from the circle forum, Drug Discovery & Development Innovation Forum, in London in 2026, showing Laura Matz, Chief Science & Technology Officer at Merck KGaA, addressing delegates at DDIF 2026.
Laura Matz · Chief Science & Technology Officer · Merck KGaA · DDIF 2026 the circle. in the room · The Savoy, London

the circle. · advisory

The room.
The few.
The decision.

Uwe Gottschalk · Operating Partner Keensight Capital · Former CSO Lonza · in the room with the Circle.
Advisory · Operating Partner · Former CSO Lonza
Uwe Gottschalk
Keensight Capital
Jens H. Vogel · SVP Global Biologics · MSD · in the room with the Circle.
SVP · Global Biologics
Jens H. Vogel
MSD
Harsukh Parmar MD · Former SVP Global Head R&D · Former Merck-AZ · in the room with the Circle.
Former SVP · Global Head R&D
Harsukh Parmar, MD
Former Merck-AZ
Behzad Mahdavi · CEO InnoGI Technologies · Former Lonza · Catalent · in the room with the Circle.
CEO · Former Lonza · Catalent
Behzad Mahdavi
InnoGI Technologies
Jesús Zurdo · Managing Director · ARA Biosciences · in the room with the Circle.
Managing Director
Jesús Zurdo
ARA Biosciences
Patrick Basanez · Operating Partner · GBX Circle · in the room with the Circle.
Operating Partner
Patrick Basanez
GBX Circle

Who builds. Who scales. Who decides.

photo from the circle forum, Drug Discovery & Development Innovation Forum, in London in 2026, showing a speaker addressing delegates at DDIF 2026.
DDIF 2026 · The Savoy, London the circle. · For the few.

the circle. · the model

A position.
Not a
placement.

01

Every forum is closed-door. Attendance is by invitation. The audience is curated before any agenda is set. Less noise. More signal.

02

GBX Circle does not run events. It curates rooms. The difference is intent. The intent is alignment at the level where decisions are actually made.

03

Six forums. One set of values. One standard of entry. The circle is the thing. Each forum is its expression in a specific discipline.

GBX Circle · the advisory

The
team.

Manager · Life Sciences

Herbert
Ryan

GBX Circle

Co-Producer · Operations

Sheryll
Lusk

GBX Circle

the circle. · access

The room.
The standard.
The decision.

By invitation. By relevance. By room.

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