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Focused clinical trial technology professional with a background in supporting established IVR and web technology and developing innovative technologies and solutions. I enjoy using my experience in Business Process Analysis, System Development, and Project Management to develop efficient and effective Clinical Trial Control systems.

Dalila has been in the pharma industry for over 20 years. During the last 13 years, she’s been working mainly with biotech companies where projects were outsourced to vendors. She grew and developed over the years, and she learned fundamental skills in managing projects and more importantly people, without whom there would be no projects.

Dalila believes that being a great Manager, whether managing projects or being the CEO of a company, stems from 1) leading people to grow and develop their strengths, recognise their weaknesses and strive to improve them and show up in their best version every single day, 2) empowering those around them so they feel responsible, driven and motivated to contribute in their project and/ or company’s mission 3) offering a safe and understanding environment supported by a coaching culture where people matter more than metrics.

Therefore, Dalila has focused on teams’ dynamic which led her to coaching. She understood the importance of executive and corporate coaching and how companies could benefit from it, be it within a project team, a department or across the board. Today, Dalila works part-time in the pharma industry and part-time in the coaching industry. The combination of these two roles gives her a tremendous drive to bring or increase awareness around the importance of people in projects or companies. Her mission is to help companies transform their managers into leaders, their management into a coaching and supportive culture whilst delivering successful projects and reaching their highest growth.

Charles is the Chief Officer of the Caribbean & African Health Network (CAHN) and a Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of the county of Greater Manchester. He sits on local and national governance boards including Manchester Foundation Trust Council of Governors, Macc (Manchester Community Central), Faith Network for Manchester, SAGE Ethnicity Subgroup, NHS Race and Health Observatory Community Stakeholder Group, Greater Manchester Voluntary Community & Social Enterprise (VCSE) Leadership Group, Coalition of Race Equality (CORE) Organisations. Charles has expertise in strategic collaboration, planning and development.

Charles works to bring equity and fairness across a range of important health and wellbeing issues for people of the Caribbean and African Diaspora. He is involved in work that influences the research, policy and practice agenda at local, regional and national levels. His special interest includes Blood & Organ Donation, civic and democratic participation, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), HIV, Domestic Violence, Modern Slavery, Hate Crime, and Forced Marriage.

Charles is a member of the NHS England Clinical Reference Group (CRG) for HIV and also a member of the HIV Prevention England Steering Group. He is a Minister of Religion and passionate about engaging Caribbean & African faith leaders especially Pastors and organising health events such as HIV testing and Organ Donor recruitment in churches on Sundays.

John began his work in mass spectrometry over 25 years ago designing Time of Flight systems for the study of rapid combustion processes. From there he went on to work on the design of atmospheric pressure external ion source systems for quadrupole based analyzers. John gained experience of ion trap systems prior to moving onto triple quadrupole configurations and business applications. Throughout his career, John has held a number of positions, including research fellow, application chemist, development physicist, sales specialist and group manager. Having been with Agilent Technologies for over 10 years, he is currently responsible for gas phase and mass spectrometry within the International Distributor Organization.

John holds a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry and Biochemistry, and a PhD in Physical Chemistry