Bruce Thomas Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Virginia Area

Proven Global Solutions for Purpose-Driven OrganizationsThe Arcady Group helps organizations and businesses address global health issues, enhance patient and disease management, and improve the effectiveness and the efficiency of health systems. We turn science into action – enhancing patient management and health system delivery in some of the world’s most challenging disease states and in some of the most health-care challenged regions of the world. Clients include: ♦ The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (As both consultant and multiple grantee of the Gates Foundation, focusing on patient management and medication adherence issues in Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in India, China, and Sub-Saharan Africa.) -- Leading the development of new, more scalable, more cost-effective technologies to monitor medication adherence and compile detailed dosing records to inform and enable differentiated care, -- Assisting in the large scale testing and demonstration in resource-limited settings of dosing history-informed differentiated care -- to both improve health outcomes and improve health system efficiency, -- Advocating for the use of adherence technologies as standard of care for TB patients in high burden regions, through engagement with the WHO, Global Fund, Stop TB Partnership, and other funding and implementing organizations.♦ Novartis Pharma (As Adherence Subject Matter Expert to Novartis' Digital Medicines, focusing on identifying digital solutions to enhance patient care and improve health outcomes across a range of disease states and patient demographics)♦ Medicines For All Institute (Virginia Commonwealth University School Of Engineering) (As Senior Adviser to this Gates Foundation grantee, assisting in global health engagement and in scaling up and commercializing M4ALL’s novel process to reduce manufacturing cost, reduce waste and environmental impact, and improve access to a wide range of global health treatments)

Richmond, Virginia

Leading provider of healthcare packaging designed to enhance solid oral dose medication adherence and improve nasal and ophthalmic dispensing. Operates globally from 7 facilities in North America, Europe, India, Brazil, and China.♦ Leading Purpose-Driven Businesses: Implemented patient-centric management model uniquely focused on disease state-specific patient health and wellness.♦ Global Commercial and Operations Management: Established proprietary supply chain to bring Indian generic pharmaceutical products to NA in support of Walmart’s breakthrough $4 generic program. Leveraged supply chain to establish India’s first retail-based adherence program. ♦ Innovation Management: Drove development of the industry’s largest portfolio of child resistant, adherence packages, leveraging proprietary database of disease state-specific patient-insights.♦ Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures: Acquired AARDEX, a leader in the field of electronic adherence measurement and owner of the industry’s largest searchable database of disease state-specific adherence information.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Led all operations and activities outside of Europe and North America, the fastest growing portions of the business. ♦ Emerging Markets Development: Developed fruits and vegetables corrugating business in India delivering packaging solutions that reduced agricultural products spoilage during transportation.♦ Government Relations: Led government relations effort supporting in-region business strategies, including child resistance in China and India, food safety in China and Brazil, and clean water in India.♦ Innovation Management: Globalized innovation with project teams working from India, China, Brazil, and Africa. Drove shift to integrated packaging solutions and insights-centric innovation.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Served sequentially as General Counsel, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Executive Officer of this Richmond, Virginia-based public company. Cadmus was the world's largest service provider to scientific, technical, and medical publishers. With 5000 employees and operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, India, and China, Cadmus provided editorial, content management, printing, and fulfillment services to the most influential scholarly publishers -- such as the National Academy of Sciences, the British Medical Association, the American Chemical Society, Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, and many more. Cadmus also was a leading provider of packaging services to the healthcare and technology markets, with facilities in the United States, Dominican Republic, Singapore, and China.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Richmond, Virginia Area

Ba, Classics And Architecture, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa

Juris Doctor, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: University of North Carolina School of Law Alumni Board of Trustees