Archives: Speakers

Radha is a cross-functional biopharmaceutical executive with expertise in leading business transformation projects driving process excellence, cost synergies and technological innovation in the management of Clinical trials/Biobanking. Her in-depth understanding of Central lab operations coupled with experience in financial planning and strategic pricing enabled the successful implementation of various technologies supporting the central lab process delivery and optimization.

Brandi Lute, MBA, CPM, Senior Director of Project Management, Clinical Pharmacology, has worked in research and development for 28 years. Her experience includes laboratory expertise in immunological assays in support of vaccines for infectious diseases, single and multiple site clinical pharmacology trials in healthy participants and managing multi-country trials in renal and hepatic impaired patients. She has 20 years’ experience in project management over services from protocol concept through clinical study report and developing professional project manager teams specializing in early clinical research at leading CROs.  She is currently heading the global full service delivery team in the Clinical Pharmacology Project Management group at Covance.

Novotech is internationally recognized as the leading regional full-service contract research organization (CRO) in Asia-Pacific. Novotech has been instrumental in the success of over a thousand Phase I – IV clinical trials for biotechnology companies and has a unique capability in offering expert global product development and regulatory affairs consulting to support global programs.

Douglas Greenwell is Duco’s Global Head of Sales. He has over 28 years’ sales & marketing experience working for brands such as Reuters, Dow Jones, IBM, American Express & G4S delivering data-driven & systematic growth programmes in a variety of product, marketing & sales roles. Douglas graduated from the University of Surrey with a BSc in Physics & Computer Science.

Executive intrapreneur turned digital health entrepreneur, my career includes nearly 20 years leading global drug development, clinical research, and decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) for life science organizations.

As CEO of THREAD, I lead our global organization in achieving our 1/5/30 mission to modernize clinical research by offering biopharma and CRO customers one (1) comprehensive platform that is five (5) times more inclusive and makes research 30% more efficient. After co-founding and growing THREAD, we were acquired in 2019 by JLL Partners and Water Street with strategic investment for continued growth and focus on accelerating drug development for our customers.

Named one of the Top 100 Influencers in Digital Health, I also provide expertise and execution experience in digital health, clinical research innovation, and DCTs.

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Olivier Kutz, Category Marketing Manager Tate & Lyle Europe, has a FMCG & Brand Management background through some well-known household names such as PG Tips and Lipton tea, Douwe Egberts coffee and Heinz Ketchup & Foodservice sauces.

As a stevia specialist, Olivier has been working on sugar reduction solutions from an ingredients perspective for quite some time, and has actively taken part in the development of stevia based solutions in Europe. Having spent most of his marketing career in Brand Management and Customer Marketing, over time Olivier built a solid understanding of B2B and consumer markets across the region, translating insights into action and commercial opportunities for his customers.

Roger Pearson, Ph.D. (President Analytical Services Aspen Research Corporation): Dr. Pearson received his B.S. in Chemistry from Montana State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry from the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health.  Dr. Pearson joined Aspen Research in 1997 from a post-doctoral position at the University of Minnesota. His prior professional experience includes positions as a Research Chemist and Production Superintendent for Celanese Chemical Corporation.  Dr. Pearson has extensive experience in gas chromatographic analysis of volatile and semi-volatile compounds, has coordinated many studies of off gassing phenomena at elevated process temperatures, and is an expert at coupling analytical results back to their process chemistry.  He is an industry recognized expert in Food Contact and Extractables and Leachables techniques whose studies have been instrumental in assisting risk professionals in providing guidance for companies navigating in various regulatory arenas.