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Suki Balendra a senior leader in the NHS with a 20-year background in facilitating, growing, and promoting health research in the U.K.  She has substantial, in-depth experience across sectors including industry, academia, NHS, and central government.

She is currently the Director of Strategic Partnerships for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in Northwest London. She leads the strategic work with the Life sciences industry in the region with an emphasis on a new life sciences cluster in Paddington. Suki created and leads the North West London Clinical Trials Alliance. She started her career in the Biotechnology Industry at Abbott Diagnostics Ltd. Within a Good manufacturing practice (GMP) environment she worked on several operational projects to improve efficiency, cost, and reproducibility.

In 2018 she was seconded to the Office of Life Sciences within the Department of Business and Industrial Strategy. where she attracted and negotiated new business to increase the UK’s market share of health and care research activity. During the pandemic she provided operational leadership to the NHS covid vaccine research response in Northwest London.

Suki has PhD from the University of Warwick, and she is accredited to black belt in Lean Six Sigma. She is a passionate advocate for UK PLC as the number one destination to conduct clinical trials.

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Dominic has 20 years experience leading Account Management and Delivery teams within many leading insight companies including Nielsen, Mintel, Euromonitor and Which?, and has spent time running his own research and data consultancy.

Dominic has also built up an extensive track record of partnering with global FMCG, Foodservice, Retail & Real Estate clients to provide value-added insight, business intelligence and consultancy, with a particular focus on market and opportunity sizing, competitor analysis, product research and consumer insight.

Greig is a subject matter expert at Medidata, focusing on Clinical Trial Innovation solutions, with over 10 years working with world-leading cloud-based software solution providers, helping to streamline the clinical operations processes – enabling organisations to get better oversight of their trials and make them faster, safer, and smarter. Greig works collaboratively with global sponsors, CROs, sites and researchers to advance the use of decentralization technologies for hybrid and virtual clinical trials.

Erica is an innovative transformation professional with significant experience of end-to-end delivery on large complex programmes of work including Outpatient Transformation, Intelligent Automation, Menopause in the Workplace and real world test and evaluation of innovation. She is a strong advocate for innovation in healthcare and the critical role it must play in increasing the pace and scale of change to deliver better outcomes for patients, supporting elective recovery and improving conditions for the NHS workforce. Erica now leads the Innovation function at Royal Free London which is dedicated to the development of digital innovation by the NHS, for the NHS.