Lynda Partner is a self-professed data addict and experiences the power of data every day as Pythian’s Vice President of Marketing and Analytics-as-a-Service. The author of Pythian’s Love Your Data mantra, Lynda understands very well how data can transform companies into competitive winners.
Lynda’s love affair with data started 20 years ago when she founded a highly successful SaaS company and took advantage of data to increase product usage and generate more revenue. Lynda is still making data-informed decisions every day to achieve faster and better results with measurable outcomes. She so believes in the power of data that she was the driving force in adding an analytics practice to Pythian’s database focus. Heading up Pythian’s Analytics-as-a-Service, Lynda works with companies around the world and across industries to turn data into insights, predictions and products.
She is the co-author of Designing Cloud Data Platforms and was named to the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada list in 2014 by the Executive Women’s Network. Lynda holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Ottawa and loves to be always active. From coaching girls’ hockey to cycling the 25 kilometers to and from work each day, she’s always in motion. Her downtime is her island cottage, where she kayaks while plotting new ways to use data. Only for good, of course.
Innovative, dynamic and energetic professional leader with +20 year experience in sales, business development and marketing of industrial products. Joined IMI Critical Engineering in 2011, leading strategic marketing and business development for European region.
Dr. Murphy’s professional career has spanned 25 years and his positions within the pharmaceutical industry emphasize the integration of medical and scientific acumen with operational excellence. He is board-certified in psychiatry and has a doctorate in pharmacology, with training at Tulane University, Stanford University and the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.
Dr. Murphy worked with Dr. Cutler in articulating this vision for Worldwide when the company was established as a global CRO in 1995 and was responsible for consulting services for protocol and program design, and executive oversight for the execution, analysis and interpretation of clinical trials across multiple therapeutic areas.
His supervisory responsibilities as Chief Medical & Scientific Officer at Worldwide are international in scope and include the design and implementation of protocol feasibility assessments, protocol development for phases I–IV including non-interventional research, the provision of medical monitoring and drug safety services, medical writing, and coordination of rater certification and surveillance activities for clinical trial assessments.
Prior to joining Worldwide, Dr. Murphy was Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Discovery and Development at TorreyPines Therapeutics, Inc., with contributions emphasizing translational research in neurodegenerative conditions and analgesia. Dr. Murphy also served as President of the clinical research organization then Chief Medical and Scientific Officer for a large CRO. As President, this CRO was rated “number one” in the United States by CenterWatch.
He has been a consultant for the Duke Clinical Research Institute and is Research and Development Editor for American Health and Drug Benefits™, a publication that focuses upon cost, quality and access in the transition of novel diagnostics and therapeutics from discovery to commercialization.
As a faculty member within the Center for Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutics at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, he has been a lecturer for 15 years within a competitive and credentialed clinical investigator training program.
Francesco Mercurio joined Celli as Sales Director for the UK Water Division. Over the span of his career, he has owned a bar & restaurant, sold draught beer and soft drinks and spent the last 5 years with JDE – a large €5 billion coffee company running the field sales team for the UK selling into hotels and leisure markets. Francesco has over 20 years of direct sales experience and has extensive knowledge of sales strategy setting, building successful sales teams plus growing existing and new customer portfolios. Francesco is married and has one daughter, he loves cooking and is also an avid Scuba diver, so reducing plastic waste is a cause close to his heart”.
After earning a Master’s Degree in Management Engineering with a specialization in Energetics, he embarked on his professional career with a 4-year stint as Product Management in Riello, a producer of heating systems. Then he joined Saeco (acquired by Philips along the way) as Marketing Manager, taking care of the business development of coffee and hot beverages appliances and dispensing equipment for both B2C and B2B channels, including Horeca, Office and Vending. During his eight years there, he contributed to the launch of some product platforms that are still best-sellers in the industry even today. After a few years in the automotive business (with Dana, a global USbased multinational), Daniele once again entered the amazing world of beverage dispensing by joining the Celli Group in April 2018. He lives in Verona with Francesca, loves volleyball and tennis (unfortunately not practising any longer…), as well as riding bikes and playing music with his cover band.
Johnny has spent 10 years in Financial Technology companies, acting a consultant to potential clients on their technology requirements and appropriate solution. His expertise covers the full stack of systems required by leading Private Banks and Wealth Managers, encompassing core banking solutions, portfolio management solutions, Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions and more.
As Director of Pre-Sales at Wealth Dynamix, Johnny uses his experience to help firms understand how CLM technology can be used to support the achievement of strategic business outcomes and, crucially, why such transformation makes sense from a business value perspective.
Sue, Ingredion Beverage Category Director EMEA, has over 25 years’ experience developing both commercial and marketing strategies in B2B and B2C businesses, globally and locally. Her experience ranges from commercialising global confectionary platforms at Chupa Chups, managing NPD for cosmetics at The Body Shop, sales for Virgin Vie followed by beverage ingredient strategy management within PureCircle and Ingredion.
Esther has been part of PureCircle’s technical team for 2 and a half years working closely with global and regional accounts across EMEA. With a degree in Food and Nutrition, and a 12-month placement with a flavour house, Esther has experience in a range of product applications.
