Boca Raton, Florida, United States
Ph.D. Medicinal Chemist turned Life Sciences Informatics Executive, specialized in building the data foundations, architectures, and strategies required to scale modern R&D pipelines. Currently serving as Chief Strategist at Quantori and Chairperson of the Board of Directors for the Pistoia Alliance, I help biopharma and TechBio organizations navigate the practical deployment of high-performance computing, cloud informatics, and agentic AI tools. My career includes extensive R&D leadership roles at Merck, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and EPAM Systems. I believe the future of drug discovery relies on automated science, vendor-neutral data standards, and robust human-in-the-loop oversight to turn raw data into actionable medicine. Let's connect to discuss the digital transformation of laboratory operations, advanced solution design, or the future of collaborative innovation in life sciences.
Actively promote and advance the mission of the Life Sciences division as the senior industry strategist in a role that bridges product strategy and roadmap development with specific engagements at large industry accounts, analysts, and partner companies to accelerate digital and data science-driven business transformation across pharmaceutical research and development operations.
Provided strategic direction for creation of a technical platform and scientific capability to support cross-domain predictive modeling and simulation. Responsible for information technology portfolio for the Center for Observational and Real-world Evidence (CORE) and Office of the Chief Medical Officer organizational units with specific emphasis on ingestion, integration, management, and delivery of real world evidence to support pharmacoepidemiology, big data analytics, predictive modeling, and data/text mining efforts.
Established strategy and set direction for the expansion of the predictive modeling platform to support scientific modeling across research, development, and outcomes research.
Established cheminformatics as a practice at Merck and built foundational capabilities to support translational predictive modeling and big data analytics across the life sciences continuum. Set strategy and direction for a team of 17 globally distributed FTEs.