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Siân leads Diageo’s global thinking on digital sources of consumer insight. She has spent the last 15 years working on the forefront of corporate innovation, from leading P&G’s early forays into Amazon through to leading Diageo’s global strategy throughout the Coronavirus crisis. Her role now focuses on ensuring Diageo is at the forefront of understanding adult social behaviour and occasions, leading the company’s thinking across all markets and brand teams.

Shimona comes from a legal background and works with Moxo’s EMEA clients to modernize their client interaction workflows. She specialises in helping clients control the chaos of client management by orchestrating end-to-end client collaboration with the power of their one-stop client portal.

Having a background in Molecular Biology from Aarhus University, Rune Rønhave Laursen has worked professionally with development of healthy, functional ingredients and finished formats for more than a decade. For the most part with large companies like Arla, DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences and Danisco, but more recently also as an entrepreneur and independent biohacking consultant for professional football clubs. Around 4 years ago, Rune laid the foundation for the company Clutch Cognition, together with a medical doctor and a nutritionist, in order to try to change the drinking habits of the world for the better. The result is a recently launched patent-protected, plant-powered brain drink sharing name with the company.

With over 24 years in the industry, Rod hosts a wealth of experience in clinical programming, systems development and support, validation, quality, and data management. This experience ties in well with his role as Data Sciences Subject Matter Expert at Medrio, supporting the sales team in EDC, CTMS, and data related systems and operation; and providing guidance to the Data Sciences operations team, product development teams, and the Medrio user community.

Mike McNear is the Director of Operations, Site Lead, for the new Catalent Clinical Supply Services site in San Diego, California. As a veteran clinical trial material leader with over 35 years in the business, he has served as a Director or VP for multiple pharmaceutical companies, including Lorex Pharmaceuticals, Abbott Laboratories and Thermofisher Scientific. He spent the majority of his career with Thermofisher where he held multiple titles such as VP of Operations, VP of Client Services, General Manager of the Indianapolis site, and most recently the Global Director of Ancillary Trial Materials. Mike holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy from Purdue University.