Dave DeJean is responsible for Systech’s strategic opportunities. He supports and educates customers and stakeholders on best practices for implementing enterprise serialization, traceability and authentication solutions. Dave brings over 35 years of market knowledge and hands-on experience in regulatory compliance, brand protection and supply chain traceability solution development and project methodology. He is a subject matter expert in packaging execution systems, product identification and supply chain transparency with a focus on pharma—one of the world’s most heavily regulated industries.
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Michael Saxon
Dr. Jennifer H. Smith
Jennifer H. Smith, Ph.D. serves as Associate Fellow, Scientific Strategy & Advocacy, for Altria Client Services (ALCS) in Richmond, VA. In this role, she leads and coordinates the development and execution of scientific strategies that support regulatory submissions and engagement for innovative smoke-free tobacco products, including oral tobacco derived nicotine.
Since joining Altria in 2003, Dr. Smith has held numerous research and leadership positions within Altria. Most recently, she served as Director, Regulatory Advocacy, where she led the development of advocacy strategies for reduced-risk tobacco product standards and the creation of responses to FDA dockets related to proposed rulemaking.
Prior to joining Altria, Dr. Smith earned a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. There she studied novel materials for chromatographic separations, conducted research supporting Homeland Security, and taught short courses for the American Chemical Society. She also holds a Regulatory Affairs Certification (RAC) from the Regulatory Affairs Professional Society.
Regulatory Affairs Certification, Regulatory Affairs Professional Society, 2019
Ph.D., Analytical Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 2002
B.S., Chemistry, Emory & Henry College, Emory, VA 1998
Rob Adriaansen
Gilyana Borlikova, Data Science Manager, ICON plc
A Data Science Manager (Principal Data Scientist) at ICON plc. IT Innovation and Informatics Data Science team, responsible for development and delivery of ML/AI solutions. Gilyana has over 20 years of experience in life sciences and 7 years specifically developing and implementing machine learning algorithms for clinical trials operations.
Prior to joining ICON, Gilyana spent 15 years working in several leading research-intensive universities, including the UCD Centre for Business Analytics, University College Dublin (Ireland), University of Queensland (Australia) and the University of Sussex (UK). Gilyana holds MSc in Business Analytics and PhD in Neuroscience. She has extensive research experience with 5 peer-reviewed publications in the field of Machine Learning and 15 peer-reviewed journal publications in Biomedical Research.
Patricia Plesner
Patricia Plesner is the CEO of EcoHotels.com, a provider of eco-certified accommodations. She has previous experience in the hospitality industry having worked closely with Guldsmeden Hotels, a sustainable hotel chain primarily based in Denmark.
John Glennane
Business Consultant, since 1987. Founder and director of Capricorn Ventis (Capventis) since 1998.
Specialising in helping businesses to be more effective and profitable, through better business alignment and through utilisation of technology.
Core focus and specialisms today in eXperience Management, Data Analytics, Business Improvement and Digital Solutions. Evolving from historical focus in CRM/CX and BI.
Lead creator (with Capventis team) of IMPROVE methodology which combines eXperience Journey Mapping (XJM) with business and digital solutions design. Addressing core business challenges relating to performance improvement with data as the core ingredient.
Source and partner with the best technology to enable the business strategy. Today’s focus on powerful, flexible and cost effective technologies that people “like” to use.
Implementation services to “make good things happen” in good time, including large to medium scale project management of business-only and technology related projects.
Franziska Schemmann
Marc Mettler
Marc is a Board Member and Managing Partner Business Development at 3rd-eyes analytics since November 2017. He has more than 20 years of experience in the transformation of the wealth management industry, first as a consultant and later as a banker.
His business focus has always been on the revenue side, for example re-designing the whole offering landscape including pricing structures of Julius Baer, as well as on the re-design of advisory processes. He has project experience across Europe, Great Britain, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Henk Dieteren
As Clinical Supply Chain Solutions Consultant, he currently assists Suvoda with his knowledge in various areas of clinical trial supply management. Prior to Suvoda, he co-founded the clinical trial supplies department at Grünenthal GmbH and served as its Associate Director for 10 years. While at Grünenthal, he developed operational processes and championed risk management procedures to establish the company as a clear market leader in the area of clinical supply chain. More recently, he served as Senior Investigational Medicinal Product Manager at BioNTech SE, where he streamlined data processing operations in the clinical supply chain for personalized oncology therapies. He is an innovative expert in the field of IRT, temperature excursion management, and direct-to-patient logistics.