Archives: Speakers

Declan Ivory, VP of Customer Support at Fin (formerly Intercom), is an experienced senior leader with a passion for building and developing high-performing teams and applying digital technologies to support organizations through major business transformation. Prior to joining Fin, Declan worked for nearly a decade at Amazon Web Services, Tableau Software, and Google Cloud, where he specialized in building scaled support operations, improving operational excellence, and driving technical innovation in the delivery of support.   At Fin, Declan is driving an AI-first ‘Customer Service’ strategy that is focused on transforming the customer experience, enhancing the support role, and moving support to be a real driver of value for the business. Designing customer journeys that are smarter, faster, and deeply human where needed.

Seasoned biotechnology executive and entrepreneur. Experience in all aspects of drug development, research and business development.

Clarice Brambilla is an analyst in GlobalData’s Energy Transition research division. With experience working in renewables with an Indian start-up company, as well as having completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Law at BPP, Clarice is passionate about analyzing technologies and policies intended to have a positive impact on the environment

Joy Bartholomew, PhD, is the Senior Director of Research Operations at The Cancer & Hematology Centers (CHC), where she oversees Phase II-IV interventional and noninterventional clinical trials across seven community oncology locations throughout Michigan. Her career has spanned both clinical practice and research, focusing on improving outcomes for adult and pediatric cancer patients through clinical trials. Having led research operations in large metropolitan academic centers as well as rural community settings, Joy brings extensive experience operationalizing clinical research and integrating post-approval studies into routine oncology care.

Anosheh Afghahi, M.D., M.P.H., is a medical oncologist who specializes in breast and hereditary cancer syndromes. She is a Senior Medical Director at Paradigm Health, where she serves as the medical lead for tech-enabled prospective clinical trials and supports the patient-trial matching services across the Paradigm clinical research network.

Prior to joining Paradigm Health, Afghahi served as Medical Director at Flatiron Health, where she was the medical lead for their patient-trial matching service and worked closely with academic investigators on clinical research opportunities. Afghahi is an experienced clinician and serves as Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, where she takes care of patients with breast cancer.

Prior to her transition to health technology, Afghahi worked full-time as Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, where she served as principal investigator on several grant-funded investigator-initiated and national clinical trials. In addition, she was the medical director of the Hereditary Cancer Program and the Vice President of the Colorado Cancer Coalition.

Afghahi received a Medical Degree from Harvard Medical School and a Master of Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health.