Myriam Beque was appointed Head of International Business Line, Bank Leasing Services, at BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions in October 2021. A true ambassador for our company within and beyond the BNP Paribas Group, Myriam plays a crucial role in our outreach, visibility and growth.
She joined BNP Paribas in 2006 in the Midcap Structured Finance team where she supported executives in the financing of their acquisition projects.
In 2012, Myriam introduced a banking support approach for startups within and outside of France through the creation and development of WAI Clusters. In 2014, she launched business acceleration programs and two places for innovation : WAI Paris and Massy Saclay.
At the end of 2018, she created the Innovation and New Business Models department within the Business team for corporates of French Retail Banking, thereby developing the ‘Beyond Banking’ offers and approach for the markets like energy transition, digital transformation, etc.
Claudine Rigal is vice president of the Global Lab Operations for Labcorp Central Laboratory Services. Claudine received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from René Descartes Paris V University, France, and further completed a residency program to become a Clinical Biologist. She also obtained an Executive MBA from Emlyon Business School (Lyon, France).
Claudine joined Labcorp in 2017 (Covance at that time) bringing over 25 years of experience in leadership both in diagnostic and central laboratory services supporting clinical trials. Before joining Labcorp, she held positions of increasing responsibilities such as Laboratory Director, Chief Scientific Officer and Deputy Managing Director. Based in Singapore over the past 5 years, Claudine positioned our Asia Pacific laboratories for success delivering high quality services and developing talents in region. She is now leading central lab operations globally, based in Geneva.
Evan Hahn is Senior Vice President of IRT Solutions at YPrime, a global leader in eClinical systems that provides cloud-based solutions for clinical trials. He has over 20 years of experience in the life sciences industry promoting innovative approaches to drug development. Evan leads a team with a particular focus on applying technology and sophisticated applications of data to drive insights and efficiencies to trial design and execution.
Joachim Klein has an experience of 41 years in the food-market. He has been working for the Martin Braun-Gruppe for almost 26 years. He works at the Sales International department for 18 years and his main focus is to support international partners with product questions and recipe development of the brands Braun, Siebin and Cresco Italia.
Loïc heads the Customer Success team at N-SIDE Life Sciences, accompanying pharmaceutical companies in the optimization of their clinical supply chain. Prior to joining N-SIDE, Loïc was responsible for the commercial launch of new drugs for Celgene and Galapagos, and worked as a strategy consultant at Accenture. Loïc holds a Master Degree in Business Engineering and International Management (CEMS).
With nearly 43 years in the food industry as a certified baker, pastry chef and state certified food technician Christian Gries collected world wide experience in Hotels & Resorts in Europe, South America, Australia and Luxury Cruise Lines as Trainer of bakery & Pastry Department. From 2003 he has taken several positions in research & development and as food technologist in the food industry. In June 2019 Christian Gries joined the Martin Braun-Gruppe as a Technical Adviser for the brands Braun, Siebin and Cresco Italia.
Kevin Lühmann joined the Martin Braun-Gruppe in 2011 as a technical adviser for the brand Wolf Butterback and is for more than 12 years in charge for the technical service and sales of the brands Braun, Siebin and Cresco Italia. After becoming a Pastry Chef in 2006, he worked outside of Germany in his profession before studying to become state certified engineer of bakery technology following the degree of a Master Baker. Directly afterwards he passed the trainee program at a leading company for sourdough-technology before being back in sweet business and starting at Martin Braun KG.
Paul Hughes is a career RTSM professional.
Paul started in the early days of ClinPhone in 2001, and then continued his RTSM career at Janssen and Pfizer. Paul is excited to be on his second stint at Janssen as Director of Randomization and Trial Supply Management (RTSM) within Clinical Supply Chain. Paul’s focus now is on applying his experience to successfully support increasingly complex trials, while also being an influencer within the RTSM industry, pushing for new and better solutions to current and emerging challenges.
Connect with Paul at: linkedin.com/in/rtsm-leader
Michelle has spent over 25 years in healthcare working at both large and small medical device and pharmaceutical companies in a myriad of different positions. For the last 7 years her focus has been on the vendor side assisting sponsors and CRO’s with their clinical supply needs. Michelle has served as the Brand Ambassador and Board Secretary at GCSG for the last 3 years while assuming her role as the Regional Director of Business Development for Inceptua, a global clinical supply company.
Linda leads Study Start Up and Optimization for GSK clinical trial supplies, pulling together a broad range of internal and external data sources to reduce risk and drive value. Linda has worked in product development (Janssen and Corning), tech transfer (Bristol Myers Squibb) and process development (Merck). She has a B.S. Chemical Engineering and an M.B.A. with a concentration in Finance.
