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Keynote
Courtney Clark
Courtney Clark, is the luckiest unlucky person in the world. After a series of major struggles beginning in her mid-20s, she has built two successful businesses and is the author of two books. She works with people who want to adapt faster and achieve more, and has spoken worldwide to organizations like Procter & Gamble, Dell, S&P, Humana, Cisco, and Cardinal Health.
Courtney’s resilience work has been called “practical,” “powerful,” and “empowering” by industry leaders, and she’s been featured in Forbes, Psychology Today, USA Today, and The Chicago Tribune.
Courtney Clark, is the luckiest unlucky person in the world. After a series of major struggles beginning in her mid-20s, she has built two successful businesses and is the author of two books. She works with people who want to adapt faster and achieve more, and has spoken worldwide to organizations like Procter & Gamble, Dell, S&P, Humana, Cisco, and Cardinal Health.
Courtney’s resilience work has been called “practical,” “powerful,” and “empowering” by industry leaders, and she’s been featured in Forbes, Psychology Today, USA Today, and The Chicago Tribune.
Molly Flick
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Over 20 years of senior management and leadership experience with Thermo Fisher Scientific encompassing General Management, Service Delivery & Operations, Marketing, Sales, Customer Experience & Business Integration Management. Currently, as Vice President and General Manager for the BioServices & Specialty Logistics business, Molly has responsibility for cold chain clinical trial packaging, storage and distribution services, ensuring important supplies needed to perform clinical trials are reaching patients around the world.
Susan Li
Thermo Fisher
Susan Li joined Thermo Fisher BioServices & Specialty Logistics in Nov 2020 as director of customer solutions and SME for Cell & Gene Therapy. She and her team develop innovative and customized solutions to support many clients to conduct global clinical trials and commercial distribution.
Susan bought in-depth knowledge in cell therapy supply chain solutions from her role at Celgene (now Bristol Myers Squibb) as Director of Cell Therapy Logistics. She developed clinical and commercial supply chain strategy to support the launch of autologous CAR-T cell therapy products.
Susan has extensive experience as senior healthcare cold chain logistics strategist at United Parcel Service. Susan also has marketing commercial operation experience from Abbott Laboratories and drug discovery research knowledge from AstraZeneca as molecular biologist.
Area of Expertise
Autologous, allogenic cell & gene therapy supply chain solutions, clinical trials supplies, commercial operation and serialization, specialty courier services, ultra-cold and cryogenic storage and biorepository, secondary packaging and labeling, global cold chain logistics network operation, supply chain visibility and real-time monitoring, chain of identity and chain of custody
Kathleen Greenough
4G Clinical
Kathleen Greenough, Senior Director, Client Solutions at 4G Clinical, has 16 years of experience in life sciences spanning Clinical Operations, Finance, and IT. Her wide range of solutions implementation expertise includes RTSM, CTMS, trial costing tools, OLAP financial suites and patient enrollment planning. Kathleen has also spent many years as a Clinical Financial Planner and Analyst at a major biotech in Cambridge, MA, gaining a broad and deep understanding of the challenges inherent in Clinical Development.
Christine Wenner
PCI Clinical Trial Services
Christine is a member of PCI’s SMART team, supporting PCI’s Clinical customers by bringing experience to the clinical trial, providing expertise throughout the clinical study supply lifecycle. Acting as the single point of contact in coordinating the necessary information between clinical functions, ensuring that clinical supplies are available in appropriate quantities where and when they are needed to support a global clinical study. Christine has over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, with time in Quality and Commercial Operations but primarily focused on Clinical Supply Management. She has worked for both sponsor and contract companies in a Director role, touching everything from end to end; protocol interpretation and study design through to accountability, reconciliation and destruction. She organically developed procedures and training for staff to manage clinical supply packaging and global distribution. Returning to hands on clinical supply management with PCI is a rewarding opportunity allowing her to reconnect directly with clients and interact directly with clinical studies.
Terry Iacobucci
Morphic Therapeutics
Ms. Iacobucci has worked in the pharmaceutical industry in Clinical Supplies for the past 10 years. In her current position at GSK, she manages clinical supplies for the TESARO legacy portfolio including global oncology expanded access program and multiple Investigator Sponsored Trials. At Bayer and Sanofi, she managed clinical supplies for Phase I studies and Investigator Sponsored Trials in oncology, endocrinology and cardiovascular.. Prior to her career in the pharmaceutical industry, Terry was a Professional Chemical Engineer with the Philadelphia Water Department.
William Brocious
Eli Lilly
28+ years experience in major pharma industry
- Operational and technical leadership (including 3 years in Europe)
- Primary and secondary packaging
- Label development (phrase generation/approval, label proofing, printed labels)
- Working with external partners
- Project Management
- Compliance
Harry Berlanga
Thermofisher
A Chartered biologist, with a Masters in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Harry has over 20 years’ industry experience in Steriles, Biologics & Solid Dose in both Commercial and Clinical Manufacturing and Packaging. Harry currently holds the position of Senior Director, Quality, EMEA, leading the EMEA Quality function across the Clinical Trials Division at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Based in Horsham, UK, Harry oversees 6 sites specializing in the Manufacture, Packaging and Distribution of Investigational Medicinal Products (IMPs). Harry previously led Quality at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Horsham site for several years. Harry is an experienced Qualified Person (QP) for clinical and commercial products.
Greg Hottell
GSK
Greg Hottell holds the position of Director, Clinical Supply Chain Performance at GSK, where he is responsible for ensuring cost-effective, patient-focused supply of investigational products for GSK’s pharmaceutical development portfolio.
Since joining GSK in 2011, Greg implemented an end-to-end clinical supplies planning platform, helped redesign GSK’s approach to clinical supplies blinding and unblinding risk management, served as an implementation lead for Forecasting and Planning systems, and implemented Network Capacity Planning for the Clinical Supply Chain.
Greg is a member of the ISPE North American Investigational Product Community of Practice Steering Committee. Additionally, he has been active with the Global Clinical Supplies Group since 2016 facilitating workshops, presenting, and authoring white papers. Greg has been a Supply Chain professional since 1999, most recently holding positions of increasing responsibility at Eli Lilly & Company and Fisher Clinical Services prior to joining GSK.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Operations Management, an MBA, and is a Certified Fellow in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM-F) through APICS.
Dan Silva
Tenthpin
Dan leads the R&D practice at Tenthpin Consulting. He has over 25 years of industry consulting experience and focuses in clinical supplies. He has deep expertise in supply chain planning and clinical supply chain, where he has led life sciences industry client forums, conducted performance benchmarks, and led numerous strategy projects successful solution implementation initiatives.
Devin Slagle
AbbVie
Currently a Senior Clinical Supply Project Manager at AbbVie in Waukegan, IL. He has been in clinical supply for 5+ years and worked across multiple therapeutic areas with a focus on oncology and immunology. Alongside managing clinical trials, he assists with implementing various software systems and co-leads the implementation of forecasting systems. Devin holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University.
Michael Mcnear
Catalent Clinical Supply Services
Sarita Maybin
Sarita Maybin provides her audiences with the skills to transform uncomfortable conversations into constructive communication. With real stories, real solutions, and a relatable presence, she breaks down barriers to reveal how to work together better.
In her 20+ years as an international speaker and communication expert, Sarita has spoken in all 50 states, 10 countries—including Iceland—and on the prestigious TEDx stage. Her extensive client list includes Hewlett-Packard, Los Angeles County, Kaiser Permanente, Department of the Navy, University of California and many others.
Sarita has made it her mission to inspire others to embrace positivity, even amid the challenges of our ever-changing high-tech times. Raised as a “military brat” moving from country to country, Sarita quickly learned how to make fast friends and finesse stressful situations.
She is a former university dean of students and literally wrote the book on how to answer the perpetually perplexing question: If You Can’t Say Something Nice, What DO You Say? She continues the conversation on what to say in her new book Say What You Mean in a Nice Way.
Leon Wyszkowski
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Leon Wyszkowski, President, Commercial Operations has worked in drug development for more than 27 years with extensive experience in operations, client services and supply chain logistics.
He joined Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2006 and held positions of increased responsibility including, Vice President and General Manager of Clinical Services in North America and his most recent position as President of the Clinical Trials business. His vast commercial and operations experience positioned him well for his new role as President of Commercial Operations for Thermo Fisher’s Pharma Services business.
Prior to joining Thermo Fisher, Leon held leadership roles in Operations Clinical Supplies for Pfizer. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Brown University.
Leon is a native of Venezuela and speaks fluent Spanish.
Courtney Clark
Courtney Clark, is the luckiest unlucky person in the world. After a series of major struggles beginning in her mid-20s, she has built two successful businesses and is the author of two books. She works with people who want to adapt faster and achieve more, and has spoken worldwide to organizations like Procter & Gamble, Dell, S&P, Humana, Cisco, and Cardinal Health.
Courtney’s resilience work has been called “practical,” “powerful,” and “empowering” by industry leaders, and she’s been featured in Forbes, Psychology Today, USA Today, and The Chicago Tribune.
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