Temitayo (Tayo) Erogbogbo has over two decades of combined private sector and international development experience, 18 years of which was spent in the pharmaceutical industry occupying multiple roles that include commercial responsibilities in sales, and marketing; other responsibilities including government affairs, patient engagement and communications covering national, regional and global responsibilities. He covered several therapeutic areas that included Infectious Disease (HIV), Maternal, Newborn and Child Health; and NCD.
He recently led Multilateral Organization Engagement at MSD and global advocacy for the MSD for Mothers initiative, where he was responsible for advancing health
equity through programmatic and advocacy collaborations to deliver policies and practice changes to improve health outcomes. As part of his responsibilities, he led various global strategic partnerships for MSD’s $650m flagship philanthropic initiative – MSD for Mothers, contributing to the initiatives impact that includes 30 million+ women reached through programs, 200+ strategic investments and 160 million+ people reached through improved access to quality facilities.
Over the last three years, Tayo has directed and supported MSD’s enterprise-wide engagement with multilateral organizations through the corporate affairs function that includes collaborations with UN agencies, development organizations and financing corporations including the World Bank group, trade and industry associations such as IFPMA and platforms such as the World Economic Forum. In this capacity he also coordinates the enterprise-wide engagement in global forums such as the World Health Assembly and the UN General Assembly.
Tayo is a member of the Governance Board of FP2030, and an inaugural member of the World Health Organization Country Connector on Private Sector in Health Steering Committee, which supports countries’ strategic engagement of the private sector to strengthen equitable and sustainable access to health care. He is an active member of the maternal and newborn donor group and several global health platforms including the Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere Management Team and it’s advocacy and country implementation work groups. He served on the Global Technical Working Group for Maternal Perinatal Death Surveillance Review co-led by the WHO, UNFPA and UNICEF. He served on the Steering Committee of i3 (Investing in Innovation) a pan-African initiative to support the commercialization and impact of leading startups with grants, introductions to major healthcare organizations and support to close partnerships.
A passionate diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) champion, he co-led the European regional chapter of MSD’s Employee Business Resource Group and externally promote gender and ethnic diversity inclusion through global platforms such as the WEF.
Tayo led the Adolescent and Youth Engagement at Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH), an international Non-Governmental Organization hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO); and was Executive Director for the Wellbeing Foundation, Africa between 2012 and 2014.
He earned a BSc in Management Sciences from Loughborough University and MSc Information Technology for Management from Coventry University. Tayo is a father to two amazing children, Seyi and Kayode.