Dan Bell | LogiPharma USA

Dan Bell

Dan Bell

SVP, Drug Supply, Distribution and Advanced Therapies Marken, UPS Healthcare Precision Logistics

Dan Bell, Senior Vice President, Drug Supply, Distribution and Advanced Therapies, joined Marken in 2003 and is a licensed U.S. Customs Broker and Certified Customs Specialist with more than 26 years of experience in life sciences logistics and temperature-controlled supply chains. He has served as a liaison among clients, customs authorities, and regulatory agencies, helping ensure the highest levels of compliance. His extensive knowledge has supported the development of import strategies that reduce turnaround times, optimize costs, and meet mission-critical objectives. As regulatory scrutiny continues to intensify across the supply chain, Dan's experience remains essential in helping meet the requirements of the recently updated Good Distribution Practice guidelines for pharmaceutical transport and related standards.

Operationalizing Innovation: Delivering Future-Ready, Responsible, and High-Performing Supply Chains

4:50 PM Panel: Rewriting the Pharma–Courier Partnership: Cost, Capacity & Collaboration for Next-Gen Therapies

As personalized, low-volume, high-value therapies like CAR-T and cell & gene treatments scale, both manufacturers and specialty couriers are facing unprecedented cost and capacity pressures. While these therapies are medically transformative, their logistics requirements, ultra-cold conditions, patient-specific handling, and ad hoc routing, can make transportation prohibitively expensive and operationally inefficient. This panel brings together pharma leaders and key specialty providers to unpack how both sides can rethink partnership models, cost structures, service design, and shared incentives to ensure these therapies remain viable, accessible, and sustainable.

  • Align pricing models and service expectations by building transparent, long-term partnerships that reflect true volume, risk, and operational complexity
  • Optimize cost drivers by exploring shared capacity, hub strategies, and alternative service designs that reduce reliance on one-off, high-cost lanes
  • Collaborate earlier in therapy and network design to ensure courier capabilities, manufacturing realities, and patient needs are integrated into a scalable, affordable logistics model

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Dan.

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