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Tokyo, Jp

Lawrence Township, Nj, Us

• Led Strategy and Research Operations for BMS’s Flagship Research site at Cambridge Crossing (CMX).• Designed and executed programs for vendor, contract, and budget management and control for the CMX site as well as Mechanisms of Cancer Resistance (MoCR) Thematic Research Center (TRC) including operational and capital expense budget, and headcount management. • Sole management of MoCR academic collaboration portfolio and external Research strategy.• Served as a primary connection with Research partners in Finance, Information Technology, Procurement, Quality, Environment Health, and Safety, Legal and Facilities, and Engineering creating a matrix operational team to support the CMX site.• Member of CMX Leadership Team and leader of CMX Lab Operations and Business Operations Teams.• Led site and organization integration efforts in Cambridge as a result of the Celgene acquisition (2021-2023) ensuring streamlined and consistent operational support across multiple sites• Led design, execution, site move and opening, and implementation of the operational model at CMX (450K2 Ft) in 2023, supporting 650+ BMS scientific and support staff. Project completed under budget and on time.• Led post-pandemic site repopulation for Cambridge sites, achieving >80% occupancy within 4 months of “return to site” initiation using data-driven approaches.

Basel, Baselstadt, Ch

Led the emergency response to the COVID-19 crisis for NIBR's research headquarters.

Basel, Baselstadt, Ch

• Lead a global business development team distributed across Cambridge, MA, Basel, Switzerland and La Jolla, CA with responsibilities for drafting, negotiation and execution of more than 700 academic collaborations annually in support of NIBR science. • Reorganized team to allow greater focus on high impact, highly complex collaborations, while transferring non-core functions to multiple off shore service providers.• As member of the Academic Partnering & External Innovation Leadership Team, developed and deployed a new relational model with global academic partners to create a new channel to access academic innovation and collaborations.• Serve as Director of Cambridge Emergency Management Team (NEM) to lead all local crisis management for Novartis.Key Successes:• Deployed new package of live dashboards to provide instantaneous feedback to NIBR leadership on collaborative portfolio.• Implemented innovative and highly flexible prioritization system to ensure negotiation and execution of high priority collaborative agreements while still facilitating support for a growing portfolio without increasing resources.• Redistributed global workforce to accommodate closure of Novartis Institute for Tropical Disease site in Singapore and expansion of Emeryville and La Jolla sites.

Brentford, Middlesex, Gb

Oversaw strategy and operational execution for Vaccines Research at GSK Vaccines (formerly Novartis Vaccines). Led the Integration Planning Team for the legacy Novartis Research team.• Managed Vaccines Research portfolio and team of project managers, to support all research contributions to pipeline projects, research platforms and grant funded research.• Responsible for the coordination of all external collaborations within Vaccines Research.• Led the design and implementation of the global research budget (+100 M USD)

Basel, Baselstadt, Ch

• Oversaw strategy and operational execution for the US Vaccines Research organization at Novartis Vaccines. • Managed Vaccines Research portfolio and team of project managers, including all research contribution to pipeline projects, research platforms and grant funded research.• Responsible for the coordination of all external collaborations within Vaccines Research.• Coordinated relocation of US Research facility from Emeryville, CA to newly established site in Cambridge, MA.

Basel, Baselstadt, Ch

Director of Research Strategy and Operations Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, working on pipeline strategy, collaborations, and US Operations.Globally responsible for processes implementation and Communications for Vaccines Research

Basel, Baselstadt, Ch

• Implemented new collaborative platform [Share Point] for the Research Organization. This best practice is now being followed across greater parts of the NV&D division.• As a member of the senior leadership team, launched a global initiative within Vaccines Research to implement a new quality system. • Responsible for all aspects of internal and external communications for Vaccines Research organization. Aligned publication and communication strategy across the Research portfolio in order to grow both scientific and commercial value of the organization.• In 2010, while working in Siena, Italy, directed an effort to review and adjust organizational structure and resource allocation of global Vaccines Research organization. • Within two years, grew annual global research conference for NV&D from ~200 attendees to over 350 attendees and 30 speakers while broadening appeal from a research-centric program to a divisionally-focused conference.

Basel, Baselstadt, Ch

• Earned 3 promotions in 3 years for achieving scientific and operational goals of the Clinical Pharmacogenetics team of the Biomarker Development (BMD) group. • As Business Lead, successfully led the implementation of a global Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), including initial design and subsequent expansion of sample tracking system.• Directed reestablishment of the global clinical study management group for Translation Medicine and BMD groups.• Served as interim head of Cambridge Operations for Pharma Development.

• Spearheaded Finishing core team at a newly established Genome Center. • Executed a transition to a fully automated High-Throughput Sequencing process based on state of the art “nano-liter” sequencing and PCR technology.

• Promoted from Technical Associate to Production Manager, earning consistently increased responsibility, and eventually managing the entire production team. • Led all operations of a production sequencing facility including recruiting, training, day-to-day supervision, budget allocation and oversight.