About Me
Valérie HEPP
Founder
I founded BREAKLINE RESOLUTION to address a gap I have seen repeatedly across life sciences and multinational organisations negotiations and conflicts don’t fail because of tactics or personalities — they fail because the underlying system breaks.
For more than two decades, I have operated in environments where the stakes are high, the pressure is constant, and clarity is often absent. I have led global negotiations, stabilised cross-functional conflicts, resolved governance breakdowns, and restored movement in stalled partnerships and alliances. I have seen first-hand how strategic negotiations collapse when misalignment, mistrust, or cross-cultural dynamics are left unaddressed.
BREAKLINE RESOLUTION exists to fix exactly that.
Negotiations and conflicts don’t fail because of tactics or personalities — they fail because the underlying system breaks
My Background
My career experience spans aerospace engineering, international strategy consulting in life sciences, and over a decade in Big Pharma leading high-value transactions and partnerships across the entire pharmaceutical portfolio.
Relevant highlights
Led or closed 60+ global negotiations of in/-out licensing agreements, collaborations, co-development, co-commercialisaiton, M&A, and digital/data partnerships with values in the multi-hundred-million to multibillion range
Directed transaction excellence and negotiation strategy across therapeutic areas including oncology, neuroscience, rare diseases, infectious diseases, and immunology
Built and led a global digital & data partnering team, integrating advanced analytics (AI/ML) technologies and managing multiple strategic alliances
Successfully resolved high-stakes internal conflicts, including mediating cross-department tensions that directly unlocked measurable business value (e.g., >CHF 10M short-term win)
Managed complex cross-functional and cross-cultural teams across Europe, US, China, Asia-Pacific, and Australia, navigating the friction inherent to global collaboration
Served as industry thought-leader and keynote speaker on partnering and negotiations at international forums
Accredited in commercial mediation by CEDR, the international benchmark for excellence in conflict resolution
This combination of engineering structure and precision, strategic negotiation experience, conflict-resolution capability, and cross-cultural fluency — forms the backbone of BREAKLINE RESOLUTION.
Languages
Swiss German
French
Flemish
Dutch