Archives: Speakers

Gordon Gregory III, CCRP began his career in the Document Management field of Clinical Research Operations in 2008. He moved quickly from a Document Management Associate, through various Clinical Trial Associate roles, into Global Trial Leadership as a Clinical Trial Manager and GCDO Trial Leader and is currently forming a group within Clinical Supply Chain to oversee all of the patient scheduling on Janssen’s CAR-T trials. In his 12 years in the industry, he has excelled at every turn and was even selected to be a part of the initial cohort of the GCDO Clinical Operations Leaders of Tomorrow Program.

The daughter of a butcher from a small town in Northern Canada, Toni gave up meat in her teens when she learned that we can live and be healthy without it. Now vegan for more than 30 years, she believes passionately that we need a mass shift towards plant-based eating and is proud to be part of an organisation fuelling this change. She also holds a PhD in Animal Behaviour.

Owen joined Kofax in 2015 and is responsible for helping companies wishing to leverage Intelligent Process Automation, to positively impact key business processes – customer-facing and back-office.   With over 25 years of sales experience, most recently at Opentext and EMC Documentum where he managed a number of initiative customer experience solutions that streamlined the customer engagement.  Owen has extensive knowledge on how Information Management adds value within the financial services industry, and has presented at many events throughout Europe.

Summary: Leader in digitization excellence and technology transformation for Clinical Supply Chain in Bristol Meyers Squibb.  Results driven problem solver with cross-functional business expertise and technical knowledge, delivering success in energizing operational and systematic transformation.

As a seasoned marketing professional, Simona Bianco has spent the last 20 years working for major global Companies like Accenture, Chrysler, Heinz-Kraft, Barilla and ILLVA Saronno. Thanks to her natural intuitive, creative nature and deep consumers’ understanding sensitivity, she has been responsible for the growth of established Brands as well as several successful new product launches. She now directs advocacy programs and lead generation strategies for the whole ILLVA Spirits Portfolio, overseeing the Brand’s consumers’ and on-trade activations. She deals with the key influencing people of the spirits industry and develops strategic partnerships that brought the main Brand Disaronno to enter the Top 10 Trending Brands in the Drinks International ranking for two consecutive years.

Eric Bull is an Associate and Sustainability Lead at Studio Egret West, based in London, UK. Throughout a 20+ year career Eric has been involved in the delivery of award winning schemes around the world. A passionate Architect and Sustainability Champion, Eric is focussed on social inclusivity and enriching human experience through design, while seeking innovative solutions to offer climate positive outcomes.

Eric joined Studio Egret West in 2019, to work on mixed use masterplan and residential-led schemes. Eric established the studio’s climate change response steering group, to help the studio address the challenges of the emergency of climate and biodiversity breakdown, seeking ways in which landscape, urban design and architecture can provide solutions for a sustainable future.

Alexander started May 1st with Ramboll and is heading the German Energy business.

Prior to that he was for more than 30 years with Siemens and Siemens Energy. There he built up Key Account Management for the largest Power Utilities in Europe for the entire energy portfolio and has most recently led the unit globally. During that time, he has together with his team consulted customers in many countries in their sustainability strategies and supported them in the implementation of projects in renewable energies.

Alexander studied Business Management and has a diploma from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

I’m an innovation catalyst and entrepreneurial leader skilled at commercializing inventions and ideas to address customers’ unmet needs and to generate enterprise growth. I bring a unique combination of experiences in business & innovation strategy, startups, venture capital, business development, and university technology transfer.

Using innovation as a lever for growth and value creation is a common thread in my career. In some cases this involves finding or building pathways to enable the translation of new technologies and ideas into viable products and solutions; in other cases it involves the discovery of customers’ unmet needs that can be addressed with innovations such as new products and services or even simply with more finely-tuned messaging.

My innovation expertise is industry and product agnostic – for example, most recently I’ve applied it in early-stage biotech, performance fabrics, and specialty plastic films. In prior years I helped bring products to markets in materials science and industrial instrumentation.