EXPERIENCE

Lokavant, New York, NY

Executive Vice President, Product Development.

June 2023 - Present

 As the EVP of Lokavant’s Product, Technology and R&D, I direct the development of a growth stage startup company focused on clinical trials, AI and data driven decision making. A commercially focused technologist, I help shape the path of the product, the technology and push the boundaries of R&D with AI/ML technologies. As a member of the Leadership Team, I work with the board, communicating our product strategy, our technical path and our commercial viability.

 Amazon Web Services (AWS), Boston, MA

Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences Partner Technology, June 2021 – June 2023

 I lead a team of Solution Architects (SAs) who are specialists in all the Healthcare and Life Sciences (HCLS) sub-verticals (Payor, Provider, EHR/EMR, Genomics, AI/ML, Regulatory, Medical Devices). We focus our efforts on Partners - companies that utilize AWS to deliver software solutions and consulting solutions to companies across the HCLS spectrum. We work to recruit new partners into the Amazon Partner Network and demonstrate how AWS services, from compute to storage to AI/ML, can make their software solutions faster, more effective, and less expensive to run on the cloud.

Sanofi, Cambridge, MA

Head of Digital Translational Medicine, December 2018 – June 2021

Head of APIs and Data Cataloging, Nov 2017 – Dec 2018

•  Created an Integrated Analytics Workbench: moving Sanofi's R&D IT capabilities to the cloud with a focus on data management, ontologies, F.A.I.R. principles, high performance computing, scientific computing and enabling data scientists.

• Facilitated precision medicine by enabling scientists to find more reliable targets by aggregating all the available internal and external data. We were active members of the OpenTargets public-private partnership, and we were actively working with the consortia to improve the data and the customization of the OpenTargets UI.

• Enabled our R&D colleagues by providing IT services dedicated to Single Cell Sequencing. From bespoke applications to ontology management and evaluation of commercial and open source tools, we made these rapidly evolving techniques accessible to a wide range of scientists.

• Worked collaboratively with our Data Sciences team, enabling the data management that enables the AI/ML/DL/NLP and other aspects of advanced and applied statistics.

• As part of the Chief Data Office, I led a team building Enterprise Information Management solutions at Sanofi.

• Led API implementations, data governance and data management and we developed a Data Catalog to make Sanofi's data assets Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR).

 Accenture, Boston, MA                      

Principal Director, Product Management, June 2017 – November 2017

•  Senior project manager and technical expert for Accenture’s Research Life Sciences Cloud (RLSC), an open, standards-based cloud native platform to integrate core capabilities supporting pharmaceutical research and early development.

• Worked with companies across the life sciences spectrum to define the vision of the RLSC, gather feedback and serve as the primary evangelist.

• Worked within Accenture to facilitate technical platform decision making and adoption of 3rd party software.

 BioReference Laboratories/GeneDX, Elmwood Park, NJ

 Vice President, Partnerships & Innovation, January 2015 – May 2017

•  Worked with pharmaceutical/biotech and academic institutions to utilize the data, expertise, and technology available at GeneDX and BioReference Laboratories to accelerate R&D

• Pulled data from multiple purpose-built systems into an interactive population explorer software application which enabled both internal teams and external collaborators to interrogate next generation sequencing and other –omics based testing, build populations of cohorts and visually mine decades worth of data

• Spoke at conferences and sales meetings, helping educate potential customers and collaborators on the benefits of Whole Exome Sequencing for pharmaceutical R&D efforts

• Advocated for, advised and oversaw the construction of new technological platforms utilizing noSQL and other ‘modern’ methods of storing/searching and mining data as well as standardizing ontologies across applications

• Worked with internal stakeholders to build new applications to modernize and automate workflows, built new webportals and new web-based applications to deliver content and actionable data to internal and external teams

• Expanded the marketplace’s knowledge of BioReference/GeneDX by building the first commercial GA4GH Beacon project and participating in multiple external collaborations.

 Thomson Reuters, Boston, MA

Vice President, Disruptive Innovation, September 2011 – January 2015

Vice President, Technical Sales, July 2010 – September 2011

Director, Technical Sales, March 2009 - June 2010

•  Pioneered Thomson Reuters’ Healthcare and Science efforts to enable content dissemination into new areas of customer interest, including the building of APIs to our scientific and pipeline databases, integrating Thomson Reuters data into 3rd party software tools (ELNs, workflow tools, etc.). 

• Founded http://www.cortellislabs.com for the demonstration of novel and innovative applications of content with modern web based tools. 

• Managed an international team of sales and technical professionals who built, deployed, demonstrated and sold custom technical solutions. 

• Developed partnerships with companies and organizations ranging from the Pistoia Alliance, GA4GH, to software vendors and database companies. 

• Ran consulting services team for implementation of technical services projects involving API utilization/website building as well as semantic web applications.

• Engaged customers from biotechs to large pharmaceutical companies across the globe and led pre-sales activities.

• Lead a globally distributed team of technical professionals, ranging from product specialists to training to custom solutions.