Archives: Speakers

Santiago Castro

Chief Data Officer with extensive change management and project oversight experience acquired across international regions. Experience providing leadership and overseeing transformational change, management consulting, and stakeholder engagement functions. Comprehensive experience in areas of strategy and execution, business insights, and analytics. Provides data & technology leadership and act as a catalyst for culture change across organisations. Demonstrated success spearheading internal initiatives focused on process improvement, automation, regulatory compliance, expanding portfolio offerings and increasing business growth. Strong communicator focused on successful delivery, technical excellence and user adoption. Currently in charge of directing and overseeing the digital transformation of FBN Bank. 

Hitomi Okuhara

Hitomi started her career working in the Research & Development Organization at Nihon-Schering from 2001 (after working at Shionogi pharmaceutical as Quality Control over years) and was involved in many projects to support delivery of clinical supply smoothly including Radio-pharmaceutical projects. With much experience to deal with difficult supply scheme, she’s currently heading Clinical Supply team in Japan since 2012 at Bayer Yakuhin (merged with Nihon Schering in 2007). Hitomi thrives to work towards Bayer Yakuhin’s new vision – “Drive change from Japan”, to achieve “Patient-centric decentralized clinical trial