Driving the Lab Data Agenda

Driving the Digital CMC agenda

Advisor on the Board of Directors of Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine and Member of the Board Data Analytics Task Force

Industry Innovator: Developed and managed Accenture’s North America Life Sciences innovation practice during and after Covid, overseeing and delivering on successful agile engagements at major pharmaceutical and healthcare clients, learning and applying a broad range of state-of-the-art digital technologies and ways-of-working to business problems across the life sciences value chain.Authored and led the development of a global strategic plan for Accenture life science consulting services. Provided leadership and influence across global multi-disciplinary organizations to educate and align clients, colleagues, and ecosystem partners on key tenants of strategic plan. Exceeded plan goals and objectives.Led the strategy development of innovative multi-client digital cloud platforms in life sciences at Accenture, partnering with 5 global pharmaceutical companies, Amazon, Oracle, and Google.

Digital Pioneer: Industry thought leadership successfully developing and deploying novel cloud-based data and analytics offerings at Merck in both clinical and drug discovery in partnership with Accenture and Oracle.Leadership in role development, coaching and mentoring, education programs and processes to significantly improve the execution, collaboration and partnership between R&D, R&D IT, and the external ecosystem.Successfully restructured the US-based Merck R&D IT organization, growing new diverse talent in Prague, Singapore, and Beijing, successfully transitioning existing projects and initiating new, higher impact innovative skills and activities. Personally developed and led people management training, and high-performance talent development programs across entire global IT organization.

Building Profitable Business through Acquisition: Successfully integrated the acquisition of 3 software businesses into a completely new organization at PerkinElmer, leading the vision and business execution, retaining key talent, and delivering against all key customer requirementsBuilt and led the PerkinElmer scientific software business, growing to $150M revenue, high profitability and achieving number one market share in two strategic categories.Dramatically expanded PerkinElmer product and service offerings into data visualization tools through negotiation, execution, and management of exclusive digital partnership with Tibco, directly addressing customer satisfaction issues and consequentially growing market share.

Growth Strategy: Delivered on the business transformation from traditional print catalog and direct sales to the first life sciences eBusiness, at Invitrogen, achieving channel growth from $0 to $.5 B in revenue over 4 years.Led global product marketing and communications, introducing consumer industry best practice into the Life Sciences industry, recognized with associated Life Science industry awards.Transitioned bioinformatics center of excellence from USA to India, retaining key talent and delivering against market committed product roadmap.

Joined venture backed scientific software start-up as employee number 3 in the UK, grew organically and through M&A to global, public, operational management of >$100M revenue and >500 employees over 7 years.Deep industry domain expertise in life and materials science molecular modeling, computational chemistry, cheminformatics, and bioinformatics.