Archives: Speakers

More than 30 years’ experience in the packaging industry. Key focus on major large Enterprise accounts.

Over 15 years of Packaging experience, currently focussing on complex automation projects in the Benelux region for Packsize.

Jim DiCesare is passionate about delivering innovative Cost Benchmarking, CTA Negotiation and Site Payment services that support clinical research conducted by sponsors and CROs. With over 25 years of industry experience leading clinical operations teams at Merck, DrugDev, and now IQVIA Technologies, Jim has expertise across the contracting, budgeting, and investigator grant payment management continuum. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and has written for a variety of publications. He has a B.S. in Accounting from Kutztown University.

Founder, Owner, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at VERTU International and at Hotels and Resorts, Gérald carries an extensive background in various areas of the upscale & luxury service and hospitality industry.

Gérald started his career in 1992 at the Walt Disney company, holding various positions from hotel operations, sales, marketing and the organisation of very large conferences, as well as digital information management. He also worked with Florida based A&L Associates to run Hard Rock Café Europe secret shoppers and service quality management. Seven years later, Gérald pursued his career at the Imperial Palace in Annecy and at the end of 2000 returned to Paris as a regional director continental Europe for Millenium & Copthorne hotels.

In 2002, Gérald started his first privately owned Paris based and highly successful company, Luxury Communication and simultaneously held various Vice President positions for international groups in headquartered in New York and Houston including Dolce International and Benchmark Hospitality.

Gérald moved to Zurich in 2015 where he was appointed Managing Director at LUXCOM GmbH prior to deciding the creation of the VERTU International Group in 2015 and the launch of his own very specific hotel brand concept, VERTU Hotels and Resorts in 2018.

Edward is the Executive Director of Digital Health at Medical Research Network (MRN) and leads their strategy on empowering the use of digital technology in MRN’s Decentralized Clinical Trials services.

Mr. Triebell has been on the forefront of disruptive innovations in the development and application of digital technology for companies in the telecommunications, software, and healthcare industries.  He started his career in design engineering and then transitioned into project engineering, program management, and sales eventually running global sales and marketing teams for technology focused enterprises, providing a wide lens on the requirements, development and launch of successful digital products and services.

For the past several years, Mr. Triebell has been involved in equity funded strategic roles.  His most recent role pivoted an Internet of Things (IoT) software platform into an eCOA solution for successful acquisition by a CRO.

Within the healthcare industry, Mr. Triebell has been involved with programs including a telemedicine network for the Mayo Clinic network of hospitals to accomplish remote diagnosis and surgical treatments with high resolution imaging/videos, RFID solutions for patient tracking within Emergency Departments as well as audited tracking of patient biological samples and outsourcing radiological contouring for cancer treatments using a joint venture with China’s leading Cancer hospital.

Mr. Triebell earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and completed graduate coursework for his dual master’s degree in electrical engineering/engineering management from Florida Institute of Technology.  He also completed an Executive Management program at the Wharton School of Business.

Caroline Potts, MSc Health Sciences, MSc Healthcare and Design

General Manager – MRN Site and Patient Services, Medical Research Network

Before joining MRN, Caroline worked in the public sector for 15 years supporting research in hospitals and the primary care setting as well as providing support to research academics by writing funding applications, making submissions to regulatory authorities and running a large portfolio of studies to ICH-GCP requirements in clinical specialties such as stroke medicine, Parkinson’s disease, orthopaedics, gastrointestinal medicine and respiratory medicine. During this time, Caroline was one of the founding members of the UKRD group as well as an Executive member of the RD Forum providing R&D Directors and research staff working in the public sector with strategic guidance in supporting high quality research in the NHS. In her current role, Caroline leads the development and expansion of MRN’s global site network, site training programs, and on-site support services.

Meena Kaushik is the RTSM Product Adoption Lead at Medidata Solutions. Meena has over 15 years of experience in the life sciences and healthcare industry, where she worked on various clinical trial products – including RTSM/IRT and eConsent. Prior to joining Medidata, Meena led the product development to build EHR to EDC pipeline at a healthcare technology startup. She was leading the development and implementation of RTSM and ePRO studies at Parexel Informatics, now Calyx.  Meena is passionate about diversity in clinical trials and is active in decentralized clinical trial forums.

Nathan has been with Almac since 2005 and has over 18 years’ experience in Clinical Trial Supply Chain Operations including Clinical Supply Chain Management, Temperature Controlled Distribution and Project Management.  This wealth of experience has given him a passion in delivering excellence in customer service to help reduce timelines and clinical trial complexity for sponsors.  In his current position as Supply Chain Solutions Group Manager, he is responsible for providing innovative solutions across the Almac Clinical Services offering to help drug development companies meet todays and tomorrows challenges.  Nathan graduated with a Degree in Mathematics from Edinburgh University and has a Diploma in Management and Leadership.

Dan Braga is the VP for medical imaging solutions at Medidata. Dan works with sponsors, CROs, core labs, and sites to adopt medical image technologies to help automate image acquisition, distribution, assessment, and data collection. Prior to Medidata, Dan was one of the co-founders of Intelemage, a medical image management and workflow company later acquired by Medidata. Prior to Intelemage, Dan worked in various product management, operational and sales roles with healthcare technology companies such as GE Healthcare, PocketScript, and WebMD.