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Zach Hales is a driven solutions provider with more than a decade of experience revolutionizing the manufacturing, payments and software landscapes.  As a Product Manager at Greenphire, Zach is responsible for ensuring the business strategy and software development consistently evolve to meet market demand while working closely with clients to facilitate change.  Exceeding customer value in the clinical research continues to be his primary focus in building Site Centricity and Patient Convenience.

Andrea is a senior-level strategic leader with 19 years of experience spanning clinical research, global quality assurance, strategic alliance management and business process optimization. She is responsible for driving strategic-level decisions that enable Teckro to challenge today’s status quo in the conduct of clinical trial research. She is also responsible for ensuring that Teckro products meet all regulatory requirements, including GCP and data privacy. Andrea holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Tennessee.

Rita brings a decade of customer relationship experience. In her current role as Customer Success Manager, she provides strategic guidance to Teckro customers so they get the most value from their investment. Prior to Teckro, Rita was the project manager involved in the creation of the Health Research Institute at the University of Limerick, which conducts research to enhance health and wellbeing. Earlier in her career, Rita was a project manager for the National Treasury Management Agency, which manages the assets and liabilities of the Irish government.

Ozgur received his Ph.D. degree in biomedical sciences from UT Southwestern Medical Center. He continued on his research journey in academic and industry settings in the areas of microbiology, immunology, and cancer. Finally, because of his growing passion for clinical research, Ozgur joined MD Anderson Cancer Center where in addition to providing regulatory support, he works on protocol development for oncology clinical trials

Dr. Treiber is a CRO industry veteran with 28 years of clinical development experience. Most recently, Dr. Treiber was Chief Operating Officer at Elligo Health Research. Before that, he was Executive Vice President, Biopharmaceutical Development and GM at Chiltern. Dr. Treiber has expertise in clinical operations, clinical development, medical affairs, data management/statistics, pharmacovigilance/safety and quality. He has broad therapeutic expertise in neuroscience, oncology, infectious disease, pain, gastroenterology, respiratory and women’s health.

Scott has a BA in biology from the University of Iowa, a PhD in neuroscience from the University of California Santa Cruz and an MBA from New York Institute of Technology.

With 20 years in the ever-changing Contact Centre and Client Engagement spaces, Mark has worked with some of the largest Global entities on transformation projects ensuring technology delivers on expectation. Passionate about bringing Agent and Customer Evaluation together through the power of Speech and Engagement Analytics Mark can draw on successful client projects that have delivered exceptional ROIs and Transformational change across entire organisations. Notable Brands – Dell, Orange, Ageas, Direct line, Teleperformance, HSBC, TeliaSonera, E.ON, BNP Paribas.

I was educated at Eton College and graduated from Bristol University in 1985 with a degree in Economics and Politics.

1985-1987 was spent at Morgan Grenfell Securities in London. I was made redundant in Dec 1987 shortly before the firm went bust from ill-management.

Ijoined Rothmans International Tobacco in 1988. There I worked as a PA to the group CEO, then I completed a graduate training programme in Rothmans Australia. I was then made promotions manager and then a brand manager in Australia. Returning to the UK I was assistant international brand manager on Dunhill then given accounts exposure with a period in the International accounting area (where I wrote the strategic plan for the whole group). On transferring to Rothmans UK, I completed a sales training and ran a sales territory in N London for a quarter. I then returned to marketing in UK before leaving for Belvoir.

In June 1992 I joined my father in our family business, Belvoir fruit farms Ltd. This developed originally from my father’s Pick your own fruit farm where he started making fruit cordials to my mother’s recipes and by 1992 had achieved annual sales of c. £100,000. I became initially the sales manager/director and then in 1997 managing director.

I completed the BGP course at Cranfield Business School in 2003

Net sales have grown organically to over £21m in 2018, driven by product innovation and selling into new channels but always sticking to our vision:

Belvoir Fruit Farms vision is to enrich peoples’ lives through the enjoyment of finer quality honest soft drinks. We aim to be the most respected soft-drinks maker in the UK, both in terms of product quality, integrity, and all-round reputation yet to combine these historically “speciality” values with size and profitability by having a strong brand.

Our mission is to become the market leader in premium adult soft drinks and in adult premium cordials; make the best tasting soft drinks to unique recipes, from genuine and natural raw materials, with attractive packaging for premium customers and their families which we can all be proud to make and which sell because they are healthy and taste wonderful.

We now sell to all the major UK supermarkets; we make private label and we export to over 30 different countries.

Belvoir’s sales will hopefully continue to grow in 2020 despite the challenges the Coronavirus presents founded on our brand strength.

Carlo Castelli is an architect and masterplanner. He studied architecture in Genoa, Italy where he completed a master’s Degree in architecture with distinction in 1999. Based in London since 2003, in 2011 he completed a Master in ‘City Design and Social Science’ at the London School of Economics and Social Science, to build upon his design experience and expand his knowledge on other disciplines particularly form a social and economic point of view, exploring research and applied inter-disciplinary methodologies on urban issues.

Through 20 years’ experience on diverse urban contexts and complex buildings, Carlo has acquired a great understanding of how the various urban systems and processes shape the urban environment. He is accustomed to integrated, inter-disciplinary design development at various scales, managing interfaces, coordination and brief interpretation towards the creation of successful urban environments, with real added value for the various stakeholders.

Carlo joined Jacobs in 2018 as Head of Urban Design at Jacobs Cities, his role evolved to Head of Cities Solutions to capture the integrated approach across disciplines that characterises the projects he is involved with and his ability to lead integrated teams.

Prior to joining Jacobs, Carlo was a director in the Design, Planning and Economics practice at AECOM and a senior architect in renowned practices such as Arup Associates and Wilkinson Eyre Architects (WEA). His experience as an architect spans across sectors and includes important contributions to the design process and delivery of internationally renowned buildings within urban development projects such as the Tennis Centre and International Broadcasting Centre for Rio Olympics 2016 (with AECOM) and the 437 high West Tower in Guangzhou, China (with WEA).

Building on his design and architectural background, his focus has been in the last 10 years on urban and regional projects as one of the directors of the AECOM Strategic Planning and Design group. He was the team leader of major inter-disciplinary urban projects internationally and at various scales, with issues and approaches often related to economic development, transport-oriented development and with a specific expertise on airport city development.

Recent projects include the Meridian Water urban regeneration project in London, the City Centre Transformation Plan for Edinburgh in Scotland, a renewed integrated vision for a major private development in Milan, the winning submission by Lendlease for the redevelopment of the Milan Expo area into a Science and Technology Park and a Concept Masterplan for KKIA Airport City in Riyadh.

As Head of Cities Solutions for UK and Europe, Carlo leads the team of masterplanners and urban designers that delivers exemplary projects in the UK and internationally along with colleagues from Jacobs’ multi-disciplinary platform. His role implies thought leadership and participation to the current debate on urban issues, leveraging his excellent oral and written communication skills, with the objective to promote integrated approach and stakeholder engagement as critical elements to tackle the challenges we are facing, identify opportunities and deliver better cities for all.