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Matt is Vice President of Product at Medidata, leading the Patient Cloud solution for the last 8.5 years. During this time, Matt has led product strategy and overseen development for Medidata’s Decentralized Trial capabilities, including eCOA, eConsent, Wearable Sensor and Patient Engagement technologies.  Matt lives in Burlington, VT with his wife and daughter.

Oren Cohen, M.D., joined LabCorp in December 2017 to serve as head of Clinical Pharmacology Services and Chief Medical Officer (CMO).

Oren has extensive clinical development experience, most recently from Viamet Pharmaceuticals where he was CMO. He brings more than 30 years of healthcare experience to the role, including several senior medical and operational leadership positions at Quintiles, including Chief Medical and Scientific Officer and global head of Early Clinical Development.

Oren received his M.D. from Duke University and served his internship and residency at The New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center in New York City. He completed his infectious diseases fellowship at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and stayed on to become an investigator in the Laboratory of Immunoregulation where he conducted basic and translational research on the immunopathogenesis of HIV infection. He served on the national antiretroviral guidelines panel and ultimately served as Assistant Director for Medical Affairs for NIAID.

Oren has published scientific papers in Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, The Journal of Clinical Investigation, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among others. He is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and a Consulting Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center.

Email: oren.cohen@labcorp.com

I’m a business leader with experience across multiple geographies, with a strong emphasis on risk management, regulation, setting a strategic direction, delivering change and a passion for diversity and inclusion.
Throughout my career, I’ve devised and delivered strategies to enhance sales performance, risk management and governance and control processes, working in high pressure environments with multiple stakeholders and leading highly motivated teams in times of change. I’ve lived and worked in Europe and Australia, with teams and clients in various geographical locations across numerous cultures.
I have taken this experience to my current role to set up the first Payments Department, delivering the supervision strategy for payments as well as appointed the accountable executive for the delivery of PSD2.
In recent roles at RBS, I delivered operational exit of products, services and markets as part of the bank’s cost reduction and simplification strategy. My experience includes design and build of bank partnership arrangements; I am experienced in dealing with budgets of £100m+ and have a strong cost focus.
With a passion for diversity, I always play a leading role in positive yet challenging conversations and driving change.
I have built and led diverse teams, ensuring provision of tools and training, particularly in rapidly changing market and regulatory environments. Engaging with, and influencing internal teams and business heads, as well as external parties and regulators, has featured throughout my career. I’m able to communicate objectives clearly and gain support without direct reporting relationships.
I have substantial capacity for work volume and complexity; in recent years I have retained accountability for key deliverables while gaining significant incremental responsibilities.
Outside my corporate roles, I’ve brought my business skills to bear in Board and other roles with not-for-profit organisations including charity and school governor roles.

Sam Plotkin is a Chartered Accountant with a masters degree in computing science which focused on human-computer interaction.

Experienced in applying technology across audit, assurance, and advisory, Sam is chair of the Deloitte global audit analytics working party, and authored the strategy which set the firm on a path to data driven audit.

Sam’s experience as an auditor established a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities data and analytics can bring to the audit industry. This led to his appointment as programme director of the analytics platform Spotlight, which was successfully deployed globally on thousands of audit engagements. He now takes responsibility for the development of analytic content in the next-generation data platform, Cortex.

During his time at Deloitte, Sam has fostered a holistic, people-centred, and purpose-driven approach to using technology to improve audit. He believes that a high-quality audit has societal benefit and using technology to improve audits is vital to capturing public trust and confidence in the profession.

Simon is a qualified architect with over 15 years of professional experience covering a diverse range of sectors in the UK and abroad. He is meticulous in his approach to deliver quality in the built environment, and passionate about the way we shape the buildings and cities around us. He has expertise in reducing whole life carbon, the application of the Circular Economy and low energy design.  Before joining Sellar, he spent over a decade at Arup and delivered the much publicised 1 Triton Square. Simon is the Development Director and Sustainability Lead at Sellar, a London focussed property developer, working across their project portfolio leading on initiatives that explore, tackle, and mitigate some key issues facing the real estate industry.