Archives: Speakers

Claire Sears is the Director, Site Identification & Feasibility, IQVIA Technologies. Claire firmly believes closer relationships between investigators, sites and industry can bring great benefits to the clinical trial process. Prior to IQVIA Technologies, Claire worked for AstraZeneca in their clinical and commercial departments in scientific communications and medical affairs roles on products in all phases of development across several therapy areas. Claire has a background in scientific research, with a Doctorate in cardiovascular research.

Dr. Jane Royalty is an Internal Medicine Physician, ABIM Board-Certified, with 20 years of experience in clinical research and internal medicine. She has broad therapeutic area expertise in early phase protocol design and development including FIH through early patient trials, for small and large molecules, and all submission supporting studies. She also supports the oversight of special population clinical trials, including renal and hepatic impairment populations.

Dr. Thomas Marbury has served as Principal Investigator in over 1,000 Clinical Trials since 1978. He has published extensively in scientific and clinical journals and is regarded as a thought leader in the area of renal and hepatic trials. He has presented on various panels with other clinical pharmacology experts and FDA leaders at the industry’s national meetings. He is the founder and President of Orlando Clinical Research Center since 1990. As the President of Orlando Clinical Research Center, his main areas of research are Phase I clinical trials.

Lea Brader is a Nutrition Scientist at the farmer-owned dairy cooperative Arla Foods. With a PhD in Human Nutrition (Nordic diet in the prevention of diabetes & cardiovascular diseases), Lea brings significant Nutrition & Health knowledge to the conference. Lea is a firm believer that what we eat should be put in a broader context also dealing with other aspects like planet health. That is why she for the last years have been focusing on research within Sustainable healthy diets. She sees the need for feeding more in-dept insight on what actually defines sustainable diets into the sustainability debate, with focus on both human and planet health.

Joanne is a CRA Manager working for more than 11 years at SGS Life Science Services. She has over 18 years of Clinical Research Industry experience. In her current role as CRA Manager Joanne directly managed as many as 40 CRAs across 8 projects in various phases.

Rob Brown is co-founder of the Accounting Influencers Roundtable, a think tank and door-opening club for specialists/vendors who serve the accounting/fintech profession. He runs a training company called Business Development Academy which trains busy technically smart accountants to be confident, effective work winners. He is the bestselling author of Build Your Reputation (Wiley) and his TEDx talk ‘The Personal Brand of You’ has been viewed 280K times on Youtube. He co-hosts the international podcast Accounting Influencers with Martin Bissett and is a professional host, moderator and chair for accounting/fintech events, conferences and panel discussions. He is a committed Christian, a black belt in kickboxing, enjoys backgammon, loves chocolate orange and is allergic to grapefruit.

With over 15 years experience working in the flavour and FMCG industries, Lisa drives the cross category consumer insights and innovation on behalf of Symrise with UK customers. Lisa’s career has been in Marketing underpinned by a BA Hons in Marketing, she is driven by working with customers to address new opportunities and consumer trends.

With over 10 years of experience in the flavour industry, Sabrina enjoys discovering new trends every day and to transfer those insights into innovative and successful product ideas together with customers in the EAME region. Sabrina has a diploma in economics and worked in many different positions, covering sales, marketing and category management. Since two years, she is responsible for the alcoholic beverage category at Symrise.