Archives: Speakers

Abby Sener has B.A. from Juniata College in Marketing & Communication.  She holds a PMP certification and has a background in project management.  She has spent 9+ years with Almac and has experience in both the Clinical Supplies and IRT areas within the company.  Her current role as the Manager of Almac ONE involves responsibility for harmonized delivery of clinical trials operating in the Almac ONE model, using both Almac Clinical Technologies and Almac Clinical Services.

With 11 years’ experience working in the pharmaceutical industry, Tom White has developed leading-edge expertise in comparator sourcing across various project management, sourcing, and business development roles. Amongst other accomplishments, Tom pioneered an onco-generic ‘on demand’ clinical supply model in direct response to the growing use of chemotherapy products in the clinical supplies industry. Tom currently leads the Strategic Sourcing team at Clinigen, which is responsible for managing and developing key supplier relationships, implementing and developing sourcing strategies, and providing market-leading comparator sourcing solutions.

Progressive change agent with deep expertise in leading high performing teams, delivering innovative business strategy, and creating advocacy models transforming the way patients gain access to treatments. Proven innovator and trusted business partner who solves complex business, patient, and physician problems. Global pharmaceutical leadership experience spanning clinical operations, medical affairs, and research. Highly reputable advisor in the following therapeutic areas: Cardiovascular, Oncology, Immunoscicence, and Virology.

Notable for designing and implementing global, disruptive integrated recruitment engagement strategies. Diversity thought leader and community advocate with a focus on advancing the careers of women.

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.

Michael Causey is Editor-in-Chief at the Association of Clinical Research Professionals, where he oversees the peer-review journal, Clinical Researcher, and a weekly news publi-cation, CRbeat. He also hosts the “Spotlight On…” series on ACRPtv. Previously, he was a journalist and Editorial Director at FDAnews, where he ran the newsroom.