Archives: Speakers

Education:

Ph.D., Dept. of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

MS, Biological Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia

EMBA, Business Administration, National Taiwan University

Work and Academic Experience:

President, TCM Biotech International Corp. (4/2014-present)

EVP/CSO, TCM Biotech International Corp. (6/2003-3/2014)

Experience: Taiwan Executive Program, (GE program, 2009)

Taiwan TFDA, US FDA, Mainland China CFDA New Drug IND

Director of ITDP grant

Clinical trial conducting and coordination

Strategy partnering development

Establishment of fermentation manufactory

Establishment of R&D center

R&D Director, PhytoHealth Corporation (4/1999-11/2002)

Experience: New drug development

First Botanical Investigational New Drug (IND) approval from TFDA

Pre-clinical study (Chemistry, Manufacture and Control (CMC), Pharmacology, Pharmacokenitic, Toxicity)

New product/technology evaluation

IPO in Taiwan stock exchange

Company value evaluation

SBU Manager, United Biotech Corporation (10/1998-11/2002)

Experience: Chinese new drug development

Dietary supplement, Healthy Food development

Post Doctor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Selected Presentations and Publication:

1996~2019 total 31 patents, Presentations and Publication articles

Wang, Y-C., Cell-free junctional DNA fragment from hepatitis B virus integration in HCC for monitoring post-resection recurrence and clonaltiy, 2019 ASCO annual meeting, Chicago, US.

Ms. Juhee Jeon graduated from Korea University with a Master’s of Science in Medical Microbiology (Immunology). She has been working in the field of marketing, medical information, clinical trial drug safety, pharmacovigilance and post-marketing surveillance at pharmaceutical companies and CROs for more than 13 years. In a CRO, Juhee managed the safety monitoring of a global oncology clinical trial. Currently, she is responsible for managing drug safety monitoring in clinical trials and pharmacovigilance covering RWE/RWD at Yungjin Pharm in Korea.

Lanre Rotimi is the Global Cyber Security Process Manager at Vodafone. He has over a decade of experience with reducing cyber risks by delivering security improvement programs across public and private sector organisations.

Lanre has led Vodafone’s cyber security process architecture workstream for over three years. This ties together multiple functions, services and business units across 27 countries. The functions include: cyber incident management, vulnerability management, ethical hacking, digital CERT and forensics, cyber threat intelligence, security architecture, security design and delivery, security engineering, the Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC), risk and compliance, and access management. The success of this work was acknowledged when Vodafone won ‘Industry Team of the Year’ at the 2018 Cyber Security Awards.

Lanre established the end-to-end proactive cyber security process framework in Vodafone.

Lanre’s leadership delivered ISO27001 audit compliance and he is the co-author of the Vodafone Enterprise GDPR Personal Data Breach process, as well as being owner of the GDPR Cyber Incidents process. Lanre also implements Kanban and other agile methodologies across the organisation at global level.

Before he joined Vodafone in 2016, Lanre worked in process and project roles for Telefónica, Mitie and Transport for London, amongst others.

Lanre is a thought leader who has contributed to Cyber Security: Law and Guidance (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, CISSP, and CISM. He has a Master’s degree in Project Management from the University of Westminster.

Barbara Zalecka currently advises one of the biggest media companies in Poland, TVN S.A. TVN is a part of the Discovery, Inc. group. As the legal operations lead for digital and anti-piracy areas, Barbara supervises all TVN’s online activities and represents the company before courts and law enforcement authorities. She is also responsible for the company’s trademark strategy.

Barbara has over a decade of professional experience.

Prior to joining TVN she had practiced law in a Warsaw-based law firm, where she specialized in commercial transactions, M&As, public procurement, unfair competition and intellectual property. She advised, among others, Royal Unibrew A/S, Viking Oy, Orange Polska S.A., Zomato Media Private, and CCC S.A.

Barbara is a graduate of the University of Warsaw. She has also completed studies at the University of Cambridge (English Law School). She is a finalist of “Rising Stars Lawyers – Leaders of Tomorrow 2017” competition, organized by Wolters Kluwer Polska and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.

She holds two professional titles, attorney-at-law (radca prawny) and patent attorney (rzecznik patentowy).

Lara operate as a hands on business partner for various internal teams. Together with these teams she identifies legal risks and provide solutions to the business challenges at hand. She is responsible for all intellectual property matters (such as trademarks, copyright, designs, patents, domains) including questions about infringement, use of our brands, filing IP documents, content of (digital) marketing campaigns and brand communication. Lara prepare and review various IP contracts, license agreements, collaboration agreements and other documents to ensure legal compliance and ensure all commercially important inventions are protected by valid IP rights and do not infringe third party IP rights.

Einar Landre has more than 30 years of software experience. He is currently Lead Analyst, COO of CIT Emerging Technologies Group, supporting Statoil’s various digitalization initiatives. Before joining the CIT organization Mr. Landre lead Statoil IT D&W services for five years. Before joining Statoil 14 years ago Mr. Landre worked for various IT organizations as software developer, architect and leader. His special interest is computer-controlled systems and how these systems can be used to improve operational efficiency and safety. He is an active member of various professional communities, author of papers and renowned conference speaker. He lives with his family in Stavanger, Norway.

He holds an MSc degree in Information Technology from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and he is an IEEE Certified Software Development Professional.

Internationally experienced Program Manager in Oil & Gas industry, skilled in managing complex projects in production enhancement and field development.

Strong reputation of delivering sustainable and commercially valuable solutions, leveraging new technologies, innovative working approaches and best practice solutions.

Combines technical and operational expertise including joint venture experience to build, inspire and manage cross-functional multicultural teams.

Held various positions in R&D, Business Consulting, Oilfield Services and with an Operator, currently heading Wintershall’s Digital Strategy Project.

David Hartell has extensive onshore and offshore oil and gas developments experience including facilities engineering, construction, installation, project management, and production operations. His developments experience ranged from onshore remote locations to offshore deepwater locations. He has been responsible for managing subsurface asset, drilling and completion, and production operations teams. He developed Integrated Intelligent Operations & Production (IIO&P) strategies for remote facilities in Northwest Australia, the South Atlantic, and West Africa. He has prepared Reliability, Operability, and Maintainability focused strategies with industry partners for remote monitoring and diagnostics, data analytics, visualisation including augmented reality / virtual reality, and integrated production management systems across subsurface assets, subsea facilities, and surface facilities.