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Patrick has over 27 years’ experience in new drug development.   He joined Regeneron in March 2020.  His current role is the Head of the Global Clinical Trial Services group, responsible for global site management, central monitoring, study feasibility and site selection, study/site start up and eCOA and patient technology initiatives.

Prior to this, Patrick spent 25 years at Pfizer, with most of his time spent in clinical program operations but also includes GCP Quality (level 1) and Analytics.  Patrick has extensive international experience in drug development.   He helped establish the Pfizer country office development teams in Latin America, India and other parts of Asia.   Subsequently, Patrick spent 10 years in Pfizer’s Development Japan organization as Head of Japan Development Operations and Development Japan Portfolio & Project Management Groups.  He was the recipient of the PGRD Achievement Award in 2007.

Patrick is a former officer in the U.S. Army and is a veteran of the first Gulf War.  He holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Rhode Island and a Master of Business Administration from Temple University.

Andrew is a Founding Director of Waugh Thistleton Architects, a practice dedicated to delivering beautiful buildings and places that acknowledge their effect on the environment. He is a world-renowned spokesperson for low impact architecture and innovative construction, and lobbies and lectures internationally, communicating the urgent need for change to mitigate the climate crisis. A pivotal player in the global shift towards renewable, bio-based materials, Andrew’s innovative approach to design has been acknowledged by many awards including The RIBA President’s Award for Research and a Stirling Prize nomination in 2018. The practice is currently engaged on both research and design projects throughout Europe and North America.

Mathew Vola is a structural engineer and project director with over 20 years of experience in delivering iconic projects on time and to budget in Europe, Australia and East Asia. 

Since joining Arup in 2007, Mathew has lead multi-disciplinary engineering teams in the design and delivery of lighthouse projects predominantly in the Property and Social Infrastructure markets. In addition to his role as Design Lead for Sustainable Property, Mathew also leads the Climate and Sustainability Services portfolio for the Netherlands Group and the Computational Design Skills Network for the Europe Region.  Keen to harness digital innovation, Mathew is currently working to develop the next-generation buildings that meet the requirement of our times.  

Mathew has been responsible for the engineering of one the tallest residential timber developments in the world, HAUT. Other recent project work includes the advanced parametric design modelling for Elements. 

Mathew is fluent in Dutch and English and proficient in German. 

Olaf Gipser (Prof. M.Arch. Dipl.Ing. Architect SBA) is an architect based in Amsterdam. His office is concerned with architecture as agent in the social production of space, in the intervention in ecological milieus, and as the production of physical and cultural artefacts. Their work has been recognized in the Netherlands with the ‘Zuiderkerk Award 2021’ of the City of Amsterdam (best housing project) and with nominations for the ‘BNA Best Building of the Year 2022’ (national award), ‘Amsterdam Architecture Award 2022’, ‘Zuiderkerk Award 2022’, and ‘National Timber Construction Award 2021’. Olaf is currently a professor at the Faculty of Architecture at Innsbruck University and has been teaching at the TU Delft, The Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, the Royal Academy in London, the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam and the Bergen Architecture School. Olaf holds degrees from the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), from the University of Stuttgart, and as Fulbright student from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

Steve is a senior associate at dRMM. He contributes to a range of projects across the studio, with a particular interest in large-scale residential and mixed-use regeneration projects and masterplans for urban renewal. Steve has a keen interest in the environmental sustainability of projects and is a champion of engineered timber and innovative, sustainable approaches.

Steve is currently leading the delivery of Charlton Workstack, a new model for low carbon high density light industrial space, constructed from CLT.

Steve was the project leader and associate in charge of Trafalgar Place, the first phase of the Elephant and Castle regeneration comprising 235 homes of mixed tenure in a combination of townhouse and apartment typologies. Trafalgar Place was shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2016.

Steve has been involved in the realisation of the Sky campus masterplan in West London since 2013. He led the design and delivery of the Sky Health and Fitness Centre, a case study in building with sustainable timber, empowering the health and wellness of its users. Other projects realised or in the works for Sky include MSCP-I, a data centre and MSCP-II & logistics centre. He now contributes to a number of masterplan studies and developments working into established masterplans. He led dRMM’s study for the London Borough of Lambeth for a series of sites in central Brixton, studies for the local authority and prominent landowners in Milton Keynes, and several estate regeneration schemes in London.

At dRMM, Steve is responsible for the continual improvement and peer review forums, and contributes to various dRMM research projects. Alongside his practice, Steve presents dRMM’s projects and research internationally, including lectures across the UK, Norway and Estonia.

Prof.dr.ir. Arjan van Timmeren  is full professor Environmental Technology & Design at TUDelft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Department Urbanism. Besides he is Scientific Director of Resilient Delta Initiative in Rotterdam (a joint initiative by TU Delft, Erasmus University and Erasmus Medical Center),  Academical Portfolio Director ‘Sustainable Cities’ for the TUD Extension School  for continuing education, and was (co)founding Scientific Director, and now Principal Investigator at AMS Institute in Amsterdam (Institute for ‘Advanced Metropolitan Solutions’, a joint initiative by TU Delft, Wageningen University and Research and MIT). His work focuses on sustainable development in the built environment, with emphasis on Urban Metabolism, Circular and Biobased Economy, Urban Climate and environmental behaviour, and Nature based technologies. He leads several (inter)national projects and has seats in (inter)national steering groups, quality teams and scientific boards. 

Niels Thone is the co-founder and CEO of Sprout.ai, an insurtech startup that uses AI to reduce the number of fraudulent claims, improve efficiency and reduce costs for insurers, while aiming to improve customers’ “claim experience”. Sprout’s clients include some of the largest insurance companies worldwide, such as Zurich International.

Prior to founding Sprout, Niels gained experience in tech and insurance focused around strategy, fundraising, customer success and the use of deep learning in claims processing. Niels is a serial entrepreneur: in 2014 he established fashion tech startup Morph Clothes, which he sold in 2016. He was part of startup accelerator Techstars’ 2019 cohort and has been a Business Mentor at Imperial College London’s startup incubator since 2016.