Archives: Speakers

Evgen Levenko is a PhD in Medical Sciences, a cardiologist. His career in clinical research started over 30 years ago. He has experience in project management, planning, and oversight across more than 150 Phase I–III trials. Before joining the ARENSIA team, he worked at a number of international contract research organizations. In his current role as Country Manager, he oversees all aspects of ARENSIA’s clinical trials at the research centers across Ukraine (Kyiv and Ivano-Frankivsk clinics). Evgen is a focused and effective manager with strong leadership and professional skills. He oversaw the establishment of ARENSIA’s new research center in Kyiv, which is now ARENSIA’s largest research clinic. Under Evgen’s leadership, ARENSIA in Ukraine has become the fastest-growing branch of the international company.

Charlie Whelan leads the global medical devices consulting practice at GlobalData. He brings to the firm more than 26 years of experience consulting to medical devices companies across the world and nearly every segment. Charlie’s personal areas of expertise are in surgery, diagnostic imaging, patient monitoring, cardiology, orthopedics, respiratory and sleep medicine, but he looks forward to bringing the combined expertise of the entire GlobalData organization to the benefit of clients.

Charlie has experience leading many kinds of projects, from intensive new product development exercises leveraging provider insights and market modeling to broad, international geographic expansion engagements. Coming from a background of healthcare marketing communications and strategy, he always works to ensure that a clear vision for project success is combined with deep subject matter expertise.

PhD in Physics with a background in MRI research at a cancer hospital, followed by a Master’s in Medical Physics focused on quality control in imaging and radiotherapy. In 2010, I moved to the private sector as Quality and Regulatory Affairs Manager at IBA. Since then, I have held various roles in Regulatory and QA at IBA, Philips, and for nearly five years at QbD. This experience has enabled collaboration with competent authorities and notified bodies worldwide. I now support clients in defining effective regulatory strategies for medical device market access in Europe, the US, and Asia.

Dan Stephens is a Fellow on the Boston Scientific Global Advocacy Team. Dan completed his doctoral degree in cardiovascular physiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio. He has twenty-five years of experience in the implantable medical device industry. As a part of the Advocacy Team, Dan is focused on real-world evidence, clinical trial policy, and patient science.

Dan’s work in RWE began in 2003 with retrospective analysis of clinical trial datasets collected during IDE studies of implantable devices. He has designed and executed projects that included outcomes data for heart failure patients, ablation procedure efficacy, and cardioversion success. He is involved in several regulatory collaborative community working groups focused on clinical data policy and strategy including ​​​​​​​AdvaMed Trade Association’s Clinical Trials, Medical Device Epidemiological Network Advancing Access to Representative Clinical Data, and Medical Device Innovation Consortium working groups.

Dan has authored articles on integrative physiology, cardiac device performance, clinical trial operations and recently joined scientists from Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson to author a textbook on Real-World Evidence in the medical device ecosystem; Leveraging Global Healthcare Data for Real-World Insights and Evidence Generation. His latest publications focus on the importance of regulatory science in creating data sets that are representative of the intended use population.   ​​​​​​​

Ian Finn FCIM CMkr MIoD is a Senior Product Leader and author with 18 years of experience delivering transformational outcomes at enterprise scale across Identity, platforms, and AI-driven personalisation — spanning retail technology, financial services, and central government.

At Tesco PLC, Ian leads the Identity platform — the authentication and access layer serving tens of millions of customer accounts across five markets and several Group brands. Under his leadership the platform has reduced unnecessary authentication challenges by 35% through a fundamental rebuild of the platform’s authentication approach, and played a central role in two landmark corporate milestones: the £700m divestiture of Tesco Bank to Barclays in November 2024, and Tesco’s historic Group-level identity integration, bringing Tesco Insurance & Money Services onto the core identity platform.

His thinking on product leadership at scale is documented in Product Truths: Five Principles for Building Products That Work at Scale, published by At Scale Publishing and available on Amazon.

Earlier career highlights include VP Product at Barclays — delivering the bank’s first digital self-service insurance platform — and Associate Director at Fidelity International, defining next-generation digital experience for 550,000 UK pension members.

Michael Olsson is Head of Product at Tesco Insurance & Money Services, with over 15 years of experience leading customer‑centric digital transformation in Financial Services.

At Tesco, Michael focuses on how digital identity underpins customer experience, trust, and accessibility at scale. He has led the product direction for integrating millions of insurance customers onto Tesco’s core identity capability following the divestiture of Tesco Bank – ensuring continuity of experience, minimising customer effort, and supporting colleagues through complex change.

Michael brings a product‑led perspective on identity as a front‑door experience, not just an enabling technology. His work centres on reducing friction, lowering cognitive load for infrequent customers, and designing trust into everyday journeys. At this conference, he shares practical lessons on why identity is one of the most repeated – and most overlooked – customer experiences.

Jeanne Russo is Assistant Vice President, Financial Analysis, Agency Compensation at Travelers, where she leads the operational execution of supplemental compensation programs across all business segments. With over 25 years of progressive financial leadership at Travelers, she provides strategic guidance to the Agency Compensation department, ensuring alignment with enterprisewide initiatives while overseeing business-owned systems and collaborating with senior management, legal and business partners on program design and execution.

Throughout her distinguished career at Travelers, she has held various financial positions across Business Insurance, Personal Insurance and Corporate Finance, developing deep expertise in incentive compensation management, financial analysis and operational excellence. Her comprehensive experience spans compensation program modeling and evaluation, contract creation and execution, calculation, reserving and payment utilizing an ICM (Incentive Compensation Management) system.

Jeanne brings a unique combination of financial and technical expertise, strategic vision and operational leadership to the complex field of agency compensation and incentive management in the insurance industry.