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With more than 23 years in the industry, Dr. Doshi is an experienced professional with demonstrated leadership skills in clinical operations, global project/program management, customer management and strategy development. Her experience spans the clinical development spectrum from pre-IND to NDA and she has also led global teams in the execution of full-service complex clinical trials across all phases.

Dr. Richard Abelson, President & CEO of Statistics & Data Corporation (SDC), founded the company in November of 2005. Prior to SDC’s inception, Richard served on the Board of Directors of Ora, Inc. (www.oraclinical.com) for over 10 years. Richard holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering with a focus on applied statistics, quality, and reliability engineering from Arizona State University (ASU), a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering focused in Operations Research and Production Systems (ASU) and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Industrial Engineering (ASU), and is certified as a Six Sigma Black Belt. He is a member of DIA, ARVO and CDISC.

Luca Bartoletti has a Master degree in Engineering and a strong technical background, gained along 20 years of experience in Field Engineering and Service roles, mainly in signalling, working for GE Transportation and Alstom, then in firefighting systems for railways application, working for AMGC-Wabtec.

In the last year is holding the role of Sales Manager for Railways market in Fir.Ex. S.r.l., Italian leader in the production of aereosol estinguishing systems, developing commercial relationships with the major players in the railways market.

Fir. Ex. is currently supplying aereosol generators for firefightening systems for the main Italian trains as Alstom’s POP (Smart Coradia) fleets, Hitachi’s Rock, Caravaggio and Blues fleets, Frecciaorssa ETR 500 & 1000, Intercity coaches, Titagarh’s veicles for Metro Catania and others.

Dr. David Anderson is a Senior Scientist at Clinical Ink, where he focuses on the development of digital biomarkers in decentralized and remotely-monitored clinical research. His current work focuses on deep collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of engineers and scientists to successfully integrate data from multiple assessments and sensors, implement high-dimensional feature engineering, and both evaluate as well as apply scalable machine learning algorithms. A visual cognitive neuroscientist by training, Dr. Anderson has over a decade of experience developing both hardware and software to evaluate behavioral and neural mechanisms of attention, working memory, and visual perception. Before joining Clinical Ink in 2021, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. There, he employed a broad range of methodologies, including: visual psychophysics, neuropsychological and computer-based cognitive assessments, eye tracking, electrophysiology, and structural imaging.

Joining Napco National in 1996, Chadi Radi has over 27 years of experience in plastic packaging. With extensive knowledge of the various complexities of the packaging industry, he has successfully managed numerous projects, gathering valuable expertise in technical design packaging, processing & manufacturing, as well as in marketing & sales.

Currently, he is engaged in setting the Sustainable Strategy for Napco Packaging, focusing on circularity with an emphasis on recycling. He represents Napco National as Vice Chair of the ‘Packaging Working Group’ Consortium in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), in consultation with the Ministry of Industry and MWAN on setting the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Program for the Kingdom.

During his almost 25-year career, Douraid has always been involved with plastics, and over the years gained extensive, in-depth knowledge of various plastics, their potential, and their use in many market segments. This helps to put the importance of their use in perspective and set a business growth strategy.

Gacia Apikian is a purposeful executive with over 10 years’ experience in sustainability strategy development, management, and reporting, as well as corporate communications and marketing, strategy and content development. Certified in Sustainable Business Strategy and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), she is driven to help organizations set sustainability as a strategic priority to support value-creation through environmental and social responsibility.

Right now, Douraid focus lies on exploring the value, potential and capabilities of compounding & recycling to enable applying the circular economy in high added value products and is leading Napco Recom to expand wider on the sustainability directions.