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Dr. Dumais is a neuroscientist with 7 years of experience in the design and management of neuroscience research. She has expertise in neuropharmacology, gender differences research, and performing behavioral assessments on stress, anxiety, and social dysfunction. She has significant experience working with PRO development and validation studies, questionnaire design, and developing site rater and subject training. She has co-authored book chapters and over a dozen manuscripts and has presented her work at national and international meetings

During his 20 years of experience with Saudi Aramco, Majid has been through a variety of disciplines within Saudi Aramco’s upstream sector, including reservoir management, production facilities, production engineering, and drilling engineering. Majid assumed several leadership roles and has participated in multiple oil and gas increments including leading Khurais team managing the largest intelligent fields in the world and also leading the upstream development team for Manifa Increment.

Majid received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), and his M.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Majid is also a graduate of Saudi Aramco’s Technologist Development Program specializing in the area of Facilities and Production Optimization.  He has earned several recognitions and awards with the latest being the recipient of the 2019 SPE Projects, Facilities and Construction regional award. Majid is currently the Manager of Production & Facilities Development Department overlooking all Saudi Aramco fields.

Business Development professional with 10 years experience working in clinical research. Passionate about improving patient education and outcomes, boosting the industry reputation amongst the general public, increasing efficiency and quality in clinical trials and ultimately bringing more effective and safer treatment options to patients.

Currently working for Novotech – a rapidly growing, fast paced and agile, full service CRO covering exclusively APAC with an aim to be the CRO of choice for the region.

Aniruddha (Ani) joined FrieslandCampina in January 2017 as the Head of Corporate Strategy, responsible for Corporate Strategy, Digital agenda and leading Fast Forward (biggest transformation program since the merger). Since January 2018, Ani joined the Management Team of the new Business Group Consumer Dairy and leads the Commercial function for Consumer Dairy business globally. He is responsible for Commercial planning, Innovation development, Customer development & execution capabilities, Business development of new/ digital ventures, Digital, Media and Insights.Prior to this, Ani has 12 years of commercial experience in Unilever during which he has held several Sales and Marketing leadership positions across Asia and Europe. He also has 6 years of Management Consulting experience in Booz & Company (Corporate commercial transformation, PE and M&A) and 2 years in Petrochemicals Plant Operations at Shell.Ani is 46 years old and married with 2 children. He is a Chemical Engineer from UDCT, Mumbai and has a Master’s degree in Business Administration from IIM Bangalore.

Top Management and Strategy Development Experience
Extensive experience in top level management as well as organizational structures and designs gained as chief executive officer of the largest food processing in Latvia and one of the largest digital and print media holdings in Latvia as well as chief financial officer of the largest diversified transit and transport holding company in the Baltic States.

Corporate Finance and M&A Experience
Managed national and cross border acquisitions and disposals of companies in Central Europe and Russia.
Performed over 40 business valuation projects while acting as member of the leading valuators society American Society of Appraisers.
Prepared number of business plans and financial forecasts.
Managed and participated in over 25 due diligence projects.

Alan Yeomans has worked with the development of computerised systems for 40 years as hardware designer, programmer, system architect, project manager and in a number of management roles including CTO and QM.

Alan has been at Viedoc Technologies since late 2008, where he is responsible for Quality Assurance of their EDC vendor business. From 2008-2014 he was also responsible for Quality Assurance for their CRO business, until that part of the company was organised as a separate entity. Alan has earlier worked as CTO for a Swedish CRO (CDC) and as CTO and QM for an international ePRO provider (Clinitrac).

Alan worked at British Aerospace, Space and Communications Division from 1981 to 1984 as a hardware designer on control systems for communications satellites. While there he developed the first CPU-board used in control systems on their communications satellites.

After moving to Sweden in 1984 Alan started working with software development, starting with hardware driver routines and moving up through the software architecture to all levels, including user interface software and database software.

Iain joined EastHORN in 2013 to play a key role in the next stages of EastHORN’s ambitious plans for growth. He has been managing CRO business development in Europe and North America for more than 15 years. Since the first tentative steps into Poland and Hungary in the 90’s he has enjoyed and been a key part of the spectacular growth in clinical services in this region and beyond. Senior management roles as European Head and Global VP of Business Development have enabled Iain to be at the leading edge of business and corporate development within the global CRO industry.

Iain is based in the UK and graduated in Cell Biology from the University of Glasgow.

Kaitlyn Townsley is the Associate Director of Product Innovation at Axiom Real-Time Metrics Inc., where she continually innovates Fusion eClinical Suite and related technologies to support the evolving technological needs of Clinical Trials as Studies increase in complexity, maintaining the balance between an easy and intuitive platform, and providing Sponsors with the complex tools they require to run their Clinical Programs.