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Kamla has 20+ years leadership experience working with Healthcare, Pharma and Medical Communications teams to help them achieve their business and performance objectives. She has worked within Commercial, Management and Training roles for various large Pharma companies as well as several years in a Medical Communications environment.

Luke Rogers is the Senior Director of Business Partnerships at Within3. Luke’s background includes degrees in Business, Science & a Masters’ in Health Economics. He’s worked for almost 15 years in Life Sciences in Live Events, including Running & Moderating Advisory Boards, Investigator Meetings, Payer Panels & Large Congresses. Luke’s role is to assist Life Sciences clients of all sizes and scopes to operationalize their digital strategy, particularly around Stakeholder Engagement.

Author, podcaster, medical cannabis journalist and educator committed to bringing about better safe access to cannabis for patients through accessible and easily digestible educational content. Chief Editor at CannPass, a medical cannabis advocacy non-for-profit which as well as advocating for greater and safer access to medical cannabis for patients in the UK, also supports and educates nurses through through its ‘Nurses Arm.’

Marcel Besier has spent the last 20 years of his career in professional services and program management teams working with global clients implementing IT solutions.  As Director of Services Delivery, he oversees the professional services team responsible for project management, account management, and IRT services delivery for Suvoda’s customers in Europe. Marcel holds a dual degree in International Business Administration and General Management.

Clare has been doing clinical trials in clinical operations and project management for the more than 18 years. Her first 15 years were with the CROs. She started off her career in LabCorp (formerly known as Covance) as a CRA who manages sponsor studies in Singapore and Malaysia. Later on, she joined PPD and over the years, she  became the regional head for Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia. Clare then returned to LapCorp and headed the Early Clinical Development team in Asia Pacific to run Immuno-Oncology, Rare Diseases and Epidemiology studies in the region. Clare is now with Tessa Therapeutics, working on cell therapy studies, focusing on CAR-T treatment.