I am a Business Consultant at Digital Lab Consulting, providing business and strategic consulting services to enable scientific organizations to transform their business through better use of digital technologies.Our client services cover the complete digital transformation journey from inception, such as working with client teams to support future vision and strategy definition through to strategic oversight and value realization of solution delivery.Along the journey, we provide services such as as-is and to-be process mapping to help our clients understand their business process and to help prioritize their digital program. We help clients choose the most appropriate technology and solutions, by working closely with them in workshops to capture business requirements and use cases that can be shared with potential vendors to demonstrate their technology.Throughout the digital journey, we provide independent industry support and guidance as well as clear actionable advice.Prior to Digital Lab Consulting, I’ve invested >25 years in Pharmaceutical/Biopharma R&D solving problems and advancing science through computational and data driven methods, and delivering innovative informatics, data and analytics solutions. I haven a diverse scientific background that includes hands-on experience in Biochemistry, Computational Chemistry, Cheminformatics and Data Analysis. I’ve been fortunate that my experience as an IT Business Partner providing the interface between IT and senior leadership in R&D has provided the opportunity to work with every scientific domain in drug discovery.Ultimately, it’s all about the data, so I’ve become increasingly focused on standards for data and metadata, FAIR, data centricity and digital continuity through the R&D value stream and have a passion and commitment to innovation through collaboration:-Working to increase the value of data generated in the industry through community standardization efforts like the Pistoia Alliance in projects like HELM (Hierarchical Editing Language for Macromolecules), Ontologies Mapping, and DataFAIRy. -Allotrope Foundation: Scientific data you can trust, at your fingertips. Technical Team Co-Lead; Terms as Vice Chair, Chair Board of Directors. I helped develop the concepts and strategy that led to the launch of the Foundation and contributed to technology & standards evaluation, business development, marketing & communications.I also value the volunteering opportunities in the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) to help to spread good ideas and connect people.