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.
Having studied microbiology at Reading University I joined Courage, Barcley, Simmonds at their Reading Brewery in 1975. In 1980 I moved to a regional brewery in Horsham Sussex, King and Barnes, and was promoted to Head Brewer in 1985. That brewery was taken over in 2000 and closed. As we had a successful production team which had won on 20 major prizes, including the overall Champion of the Great British Beer Festival and voted as one of the top ten breweries in the world, four of us set up out own brewery largely brewing and packaging beer for other brewers.
In 2016 we completed a ground up build of a new site implementing a lot of the carbon reduction actions that are now seen as vital.
Jan Niewodniczanski studied brewing engineering at the TU Munich/Weihenstephan and later went on to complete his MBA studies at the Graduate School of Business at Cape Town University. He then worked at Spaten Franziskaner and gained international experience with Anheuser Busch USA and San Miguel Breweries in the Philippines and in China. From 1995 until 2006 he worked in different leading positions at South African Breweries SAB Ltd in South Africa.
Since October 2006 he has been back in the family business and in management where he represents the 7th generation of family shareholders. His role: Managing Director Engineering and Environment at Bitburger Braugruppe GmbH.
Experienced Managing Director with a demonstrated history of working in the food & beverages industry at International level. Skilled in Marketing Management, Negotiation, Business Planning, Advertising, Sales and overall Business Management and Entrepreneurship. Strong business development professional graduated from ESADE with enhanced education from other prestigious institutions.
