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Stacy Weil is the Senior Vice President, Clinical Data Operations, Strategic Business Optimization at Premier Research. Stacy’s focus is on translating the organization strategy into actionable data initiatives that ultimately enable internal and external customers to achieve the highest level of performance and success. Prior to her role at Premier Research, Stacy worked in the role of Vice President of Clinical Data Operations at PatientiP and held prior roles in leadership in the Process Improvement, Data Analytics, Learning Services and Project Management groups at PPD.

Stacy’s operations experience includes project management and therapeutic leadership in the areas of Endocrine/Metabolic, Immunology, Urology, Women’s Health, Neuroscience, and Respiratory. Stacy’s trial oversight includes both global and domestic trials with teams in the US, Canada, Latin America, Asia Pacific and European Union.

Kristi Miller leads the team of regulatory professionals in providing strategic and tactical guidance across therapeutic areas and disciplines (CMC, Nonclinical, Clinical, Device and Regulatory Writing). She has over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry in delivering both regional and international regulatory strategy for pharmaceutical and biotech drug development teams.  Her experience encompasses providing regulatory leadership and execution of strategy for products across development (pre-IND through post marketing) in multiple therapeutic areas of immunology/inflammation, ophthalmology, oncology and other rare diseases.  Her accomplishments include leading teams to successful global health authority interactions, INDs, orphan drug applications, fast track applications, pediatric strategies, and marketing applications.

Kristi received her PhD in tumor cell biology and her previous roles have included positions at Pharmacyclics, and Genentech.

Gerrit Smit (PhD) is the managing director of Yili Innovation Center Europe, which is based in The Netherlands. This centre is aiming to bridge Yili’s Innovation Centers in China with strategic collaboration parties in Europe; being academia, contract research institutes, key suppliers as well as other dairy and food companies.

Before joining Yili he worked as SVP R&D at Valio, Finland (2011-2015), where he was responsible for the R&D portfolio and in particular the long-term strategy, and open innovation with external partners. Previous to that, he worked in Unilever (2004-2011) as Director R&D covering the areas of Flavour and Consumer Research as well as leading the Open Innovation in the area of flavours. He also was a member of the global manage-ment team of the Unilever Food and Health Research Institute.

From 1993 until 2004, he worked at NIZO food research in The Netherlands, where he was a board member responsible for the departments Flavour, Nutrition and Ingredients. Moreover, he held for 12 years an en-dowed professorship at Wageningen University (NL) in Molecular Flavour Science.

Gerrit got his MSc degree in Molecular Microbiology and Biochemistry, at Utrecht University, and got his PhD degree in 1988 at Leiden University. He also worked as a post-doc for 2 years in R&D in the United States, fol-lowed by a staff position for 2 years at Leiden University.