A UK top 100 influential tech leader passionate about diversity and inclusion practices. Innovation award winning pharma industry advisory consultant, founder, disruptor, passionate operational strategy expert, blockchain advocate, technology enabled clinical trials and patient engagement thought leader with over 20 years in the NHS on commission by the DOH and in Industry (Hoffman La-Roche, Amgen, ALMAC, ICON, Biogen and Novartis). As a part of R&D transformation led the strategy and implemented hybrid decentralized trials into the clinical development operating model at Biogen. Part of DIA Patient Engagement Voluntary Community Leadership team. Driver for change through identifying unmet customer needs, digital strategies, implementation and expansion of disruptive digital platform technologies across drug development and commercial lifecycles. Experience across various therapeutic areas and phases of trials in drug development including leading all phases of global clinical trials, developing electrophysiological clinical endpoints, creation and execution of successful strategies for research protocols and CRO oversight, patient and site feasibility, expertise in technologies such as eCOA, eConsent, telemedicine and IRT, creation of optimal drug packaging and administration concepts, mapping the patient journey, planning and executing effective global site and patient engagement campaigns using direct to patient methods, leading and coaching remote and complex global teams.
Awards:
• Financial Times 2019 Top 100 UK influential BAME tech leader
• Founder of award winning Not-for-Profit to advance Clinical Trials in Emerging Markets in 2018
• Women Innovation Network UK Co-Lead (2016 Honorary Mention for Diversity and Inclusion Award)
• Sunday Times UK ‘Rising Stars in Healthcare’ award in 2018
• Innovation award winner on clinical endpoints in 2014
• Nigerian diplomats wives award for donation of medical supplies in 2003
Notable Achievements include:
• BBC Radio interview in 2020 on STEM activities and careers
• Implemented lay language summary and end of study patient surveys
• MBA dissertation titled ‘Implementing Patient Engagement at a Biotechnology Company’
• Conducted management consulting visit in Chile and various global consulting assignments
• Keynote speaker and chair at various international conferences
• Setting up mentoring programs and leadership workshops
• Trustee for a youth charity in London