Bala heads VB Insights, an advisory firm for the Healthcare and Life Sciences sector. Bala brings over 35 years of experience. During his long tenure, he has been responsible for the introduction of Web, document management, global team collaboration, and regulatory information management applications to large pharma. Until recently, Bala was Head of the Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Solutions Group at Orion Innovation. As an entrepreneur and a thought leader, he has been involved in initiatives to transform regulatory affairs from a document-centric function to a data-driven function. Bala has been associated with DIA for more than 14 years, most recently as the DIA RIM Working Group subteam lead for the RIM Reference Model.

Brooke is known for her pivotal roles in collaborating with Sponsor Companies, Health Authorities, and Technology Developers. She has maintained focus on leveraging cutting-edge technologies as a catalyst for regulatory advancements, optimization, and collaboration for global go-to-market strategies and data harmonization. She was named PharmaVoice’s top 100 most inspiring individuals for Mentorship and Team Development and received the esteemed Excellence in Service award from DIA. Brooke has an integral role in shaping the discourse surrounding data and technology in regulatory affairs through her work with DIA as programming chair for the Data & Technology Track and as the co-chair of the DIA RA Community.

Ethan Chen provides overall leadership to CDER in streamlining electronic and traditional submissions and delivering solutions to enable rapid adoption of emerging electronic data standards. Since joining the FDA in 2012, Mr. Chen has led several critical initiatives as the CDER Informatics Architect, including Data Management, Analytics and Business Intelligence, Electronic Submission and Portal Collaboration programs. Ethan has over 20-years’ experience in Data Management, Enterprise Architecture, Solution Development and System Integration.

Cindy Chiu is a Senior Director in Global Regulatory Affairs and Clinical Safety group at Merck & Co. She has over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and energy industries, focusing on post-merger process integration and operations excellence. She has served in various leadership roles overseeing project management, business process improvement and change management initiatives. In her current role at Merck & Co., she is the Lead of the Regulatory Content Authoring and Archiving Management group. Prior to Merck, she worked as a management consultant, where she assisted clients with change management and business process redesign as a result of merger activity or technology integrations.

Jake Doran is currently the Head of Digital @ MAPS Public Benefit Corporation. In this role, Jake is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of the digital and IT strategy as the MPBC organization transitions from a clinical research startup to a commercial entity and industry pioneer. Prior to joining MPBC, Jake was the Head of Global R&D IT at Bausch Health. Jake prides himself in being a biologist by study and a technologist by trade and throughout his career has positioned himself at the intersection of science and technology. Earlier in his career, Jake held positions of increasing responsibility at Genpact, Janssen Pharmaceuticals and Schering Plough.

Ms. Fallen is an authority on the business processes and associated use of information technology in drug development with a focus on regulatory and clinical. A passionate advocate for moving life sciences business on-line, Betsy is an expert on regulatory and clinical operations. Over the two decades of outstanding contributions at Merck, she was recognized for her leadership and excellent representation of the organization on internal transformational teams and in many industry initiatives. Now consulting, she continues to be recognized for her knowledge in technical innovation, process efficiency and ability to assess and assure compliance in documentation, execution and oversight.

Mark has over 30 years’ experience in Information Technology & Management. Mark began his career developing commercial applications and has been working for FDA for over 30 years. Mark’s FDA responsibilities have included software development and project management in CBER; Director of Applications Development & Services in CDER; PDUFA IT Program Director; Director, Division of Data Management Services & Solutions managing CDER’s electronic submission program, and ICH M8 (eCTD) Rapporteur. Mark has been with CBER's data standards group since 2014, and his current responsibilities include representing CBER in the development and implementation of international electronic submission standards.

Joanne Malia is Director, Development Records Management at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and responsible for the TMF group and Clinical Archives and is the Business Process Owner for the eTMF. Throughout her 25+ year career in life sciences she has worked for diagnostic, biotech, pharmaceutical companies and CROs. She serves on the CDISC TMF Reference Model Steering Committee, on the organizing committee for DIA’s Regulatory Information Document Submission Meeting and presents frequently at industry conferences.

Clinical Research/Clinical Management Professional with 24 years diversified experience across functional areas and global regions with current focus in Clinical Operations Risk-based Quality Management business process improvement and eClinical Systems deployment. Career includes greater than 9 years specializing in process reengineering and eClinical system implementation for a large global CRO and 6 years helping companies deploy solutions to streamline processes, improve productivity and operational efficiency, and better manage information across CTMS, eTMF, Risk-Based Quality Management (RBQM), Investigator Portal, CRO Engagement and Clinical Architecture.

Thomas is a 20+ year experienced leader in Pharmaceutical, Diagnostic and Medical Device Regulatory Affairs, Electronic Publishing and Document Management. He has a strong track record of successful regulatory interactions and filings, resulting in the approval of over 25 new drugs, devices and diagnostics. He has worked for a number of organizations both in the Consulting and CRO industry, as well as on the sponsor side of the equation. He has developed services and led global teams resulting in the consistent delivery of high-quality output aligned with business needs. Some of Thomas’s skills include regulatory process and workflow excellence, eCTD publishing, document management, commercial regulatory, and computer systems validation.

Sarah Powell is the President of Powell regulatory Services. Sarah has over 35 years of experience in pharmaceutical and related regulated industries. Sarah has worked as an independent consultant assisting clients with projects related to process improvements, standards development, and implementation of new technology. While in industry, Sarah performed roles within the Clinical, Quality, Regulatory Affairs and Regulatory Operations groups. Sarah has extensive experience with preparing regulatory submissions for biologic products for submission in the US and EU. She also has detailed knowledge on the requirements for the regulatory information systems.

T.J. Sharpe is a speaker, writer, and patient expert consultant working with top pharmaceutical companies and clinical research stakeholders seeking sustained, ingrained, consistent patient engagement.  A Stage IV melanoma survivor given two years to live, his continuation from survivorship into advocacy and clinical trials consulting adds the "what I am doing about it" layer to the "I survived cancer" narrative. Taking insights gleaned from a decade+ working with leaders in healthcare, clinical research, digital medicine technologies, and patient advocacy, he speaks frankly about and works tirelessly towards creating advanced patient engagement activities and solutions to benefit all. Twitter @TeamTJSharpe | LinkedIn.com/in/tjsharpe

Michiel has 15 years of experience in Regulatory Affairs and Information Management. He provides strategic direction and subject matter expertise for implementation of Regulatory Information Management (RIM) solutions. His focus goes beyond compliance, Michiel specializes in unlocking the true value of an organization’s data – whilst taking advantage of initiatives such as XEVMPD, IDMP and SPOR. Through the alignment of people, cross-functional processes, and tools, he has enabled efficient and sustainable data quality for a wide range of customers.

Stacy Tegan is a Program Director at TransCelerate Biopharma, Inc., a non-profit organization with a mission to collaborate across the biopharmaceutical R&D community. In her current role she oversees projects to enable information sharing and harmonization across the clinical development process. She has expertise in Regulatory Operations, Clinical Development processes, and Project Management gain through 20+ years of experience working for sponsor, consulting, technology, and nonprofit organizations in the pharmaceutical industry.

Peter is the Sr. Director of Publishing & Submissions for Astellas. This global group has responsibility for compiling, dispatching and archiving submissions and ensuring those activities are captured in the appropriate systems. Peter has been involved in multiple global programs targeting process improvements around product change control, document management and submission management. Prior to moving into Regulatory Operations, Peter worked in IT at Astellas focusing on informatics in the areas RA, QA and document management. Peter has a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Austin College in Sherman, TX, and an MBA from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.

Kevin Tompkins is the Executive Director, Regulatory Information and Submission Management at Bristol Myers Squibb. He joined BMS in 2018 and has over 20 years of experience in different roles leading regulatory operations teams. In his current role, Kevin is responsible for the strategic direction and delivery of regulatory submissions, product data, and regulatory systems for BMS. He holds a B.S. in Information Systems and a M.B.A. from LaSalle University.

Ron Fitzmartin is Senior Informatics Advisor, Office of Regulatory Operations, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration. In this role Ron provides policy and strategy consultation and support on a wide range of topics focused on electronic regulatory submissions and standardized data. Some of Ron’s activities include: chair of the PDUFA VI information technology committee, Regulatory Chair of the ICH M11 Expert Working Group on the standardized clinical protocol template, and chair of the IDMP Working Group under the International Pharmaceutical Regulators Programme. Ron received a PhD in statistics from the University of Maryland and MBA from University of New Haven.

Dan is a Leadership professional with 20+ years experience in Regulatory Submission production. A subject matter expert for eCTD & EDMS solutions. A business process analyst for submission assembly and eCTD publishing. He’s been a key member of several industry/agency initiatives for electronic submission standardization & efficiency. Dan has presented or chaired sessions at DIA Annual Meeting & DIA RSIDM/EDM Conferences. He's a DIA RSIDM Conference Program committee member. Dan established/directed eCTD publishing groups at Merck & Co., Inc. & Datafarm Inc. (leading eCTD software & services provider). At Teva, Dan led a initiative to harmonize the publishing environment into a single tool set (EDMS, eCTD Publishing etc.).

Norman R. Schmuff joined the FDA in 1990. For more than 20 years, he has participated in ICH as a member of several Expert Working Groups. He was the Rapporteur for the M4 CTD (eCTD) – Quality Implementation Working Group. He is involved in many FDA electronic submission initiatives, including the Pharmaceutical Quality/Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls structured data project. He is also serves as a delegate to the International Organization for Standardization's (ISO) Technical Committee (TC 215) on health informatics which deals with the IDMP standards. Currently he is Associate Director in FDA’s Office of Process and Facilities in CDER. He has never served time in prison.

Katherine has worked in the field of nonclinical research at Bristol-Myers Squibb since 2002. Her comprehensive background and experience in all aspects of toxicology study conduct and operations served as a launching pad to her current role in nonclinical report management. In this role she manages the flow of nonclinical study reports and regulatory documents through the authoring and publishing process to enable health authority submission.

With more than 25 years of experience in the Life Sciences industry, David is a seasoned executive with extensive experience delivering solutions to customers, with a particular focus in the areas of regulatory information management (RIM), content management and collaboration. His main focus is aligning customer needs with the capabilities of the company’s Life Sciences Suite and ensure that the solution meets the needs of the customer. David also leads the DIA EDM Submission Reference Model team that developed a document architecture for use when designing and building content management solutions.

Jared Lantzy, PMP, is a Lead Associate in Booz Allen Hamilton's Civilian Services Group. His expertise is in the development, implementation, and maintenance of data standards for the life sciences. Mr. Lantzy is a former member of the FDA CDER electronic submission support team (eSUB team) and is a former employee of a leading electronic submission tool vendor.

Fred is Vice President, Consulting Services at TalentMine. He leads the Data Standards Consulting Group, and is an SDTM and SEND Implementation Advisor. He has been active in leading the development of CDISC standards since 1999. He is a founding member of the SDS Team (1999), the SEND Team (2002), and the Medical Devices Team (2007), and has led or co-led these for many years; he currently serves on the Leadership Teams of all three. Fred previously worked at Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Octagon Research Solutions, and Accenture, managing and consulting on data standards.

Amber Hartley currently serves as Chief Corporate Development Officer for BurstIQ, a Denver-based startup that has developed the first enterprise-level blockchain platform for health data. The company works with health systems, insurers, digital health providers, B2B service providers, and government entities to help them securely manage, share and monetize data-driven products and services. Within her role at BurstIQ, Amber oversees partnerships, marketing, legal, and corporate strategy. Prior to joining BurstIQ, Amber ran the Center for Healthcare Innovation at Catholic Health Initiatives. She has over 20 years of experience leading business development and strategy in high tech, biotechnology and healthcare.

Dr. Meredith Chuk is the Acting Associate Director for Safety in the Office of Oncologic Diseases in OND/CDER at the FDA.

Mr. De is the Deputy Director of CDER’s Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, Regulatory Science Staff at FDA. He provides expert advice and technical direction on regulatory science for developing new tools, standards, and approaches to assess the safety, efficacy, quality, and performance of all FDA-regulated products. He has over twenty years of experience with the FDA, the NIH & in the pharmaceutical industry. His work includes compounding reporting guidance, data management of FAERS system, Safety Reporting Portal for mandatory post-marketing electronic submissions and the FAERS Public Dashboard.

German citizen, who worked in Switzerland and now lives in the US. I have been in the Pharmaceutical Industry for my entire career. I looked at Content Management from many different angles: Information broker, information architect, solution engineer and end user in various business domains and regions. The time is now to prepare for fundamental change in RIM. We have done Document and Data Management in silos for decades. The past couple of years AI dominated the solution space with various success. It is time to fundamentally rethink how we work with content and design business centric solutions that actually deliver desired results. I love conversations with disruptive thinkers, walking my dog and training in the local circus schoo

Hans van Bruggen has been involved in the transition form paper to digitalized paper to data exchange to data sharing. Key areas of expertise: lean regulatory documents, data capture right-first-time, and reuse rather then recreate or copy. Hans has an MSc in Pharmaceutical Medicine from the University of Surrey and has worked within, or for, the pharmaceutical industry for more than 30 years in Global or European Headquarters. Using that scientific background he brings together people, processes and tools, leading to lean interdisciplinary and international processes.

As Director, R&D Lead at Pfizer, Craig Anderson is responsible for research, development, business and process-related functions across the International Labeling organisation. This includes topics such as electronic labelling, medicinal product information, digital health, and data standards. Craig is also Co-lead of HL7’s Vulcan accelerator project for electronic Product Information (ePI) and co-lead for HL7 BR&R's Pharmaceutical Quality (Industry) project.

Danielle Beaulieu, PhD Danielle obtained her PhD in Biochemistry from Laval University Canada. After a 13 years career in Microbiology Drug Discovery, she moved into regulatory operations where she managed several drugs at different stages of development in the US/EU. In 2012, she began managing BMS’s home grown RIM Solution. She also envisioned, helped develop and instituted a Data Quality program. In 2014 BMS began the work to replace their older RIM solution with a new authoritative source for RIM. Danielle was been the Business lead for that effort, from process definition and simplification to configuration and roll out, and she is now the head of the Business Capabilities group for regulatory at BMS.

Sandy has worked within Regulatory Affairs at AbbVie since 2010. During this time, she has successfully implemented enhancements to global processes and systems in the areas of global labeling, registration management, submission planning, and submission tracking. Her primary focus has been on streamlining interactions between central/headquarters and affiliate regulatory team members. Prior to joining AbbVie, Sandy spent 18 years in management consulting working with companies from various industries including healthcare, transportation, and consumer products. Sandy has a BA from Dartmouth College, an MBA from Booth School of Business, and is certified in the Prosci change management methodologies.

Mr. Chen is a project management Officer at Office of Strategic Programs, CDER, US Food and Drug Administration, where he is responsible for the development and implementation of electronic data standards for CDER regulatory review. As an FDA delegate to ICH E2B Expert Working Group and ISO TC 215 WG 6, he has been actively participating in the development of E2B (R3) Implementation guide, ISO/HL7 ICSR message standard, and the ISO IDMP standards. TJ has more than 30 years of experience in program management and various data standards and message standards areas. He worked for a pharmaceutical company before join FDA in 2005.

Scott Cleve is currently the Vice president of Global Regulatory Labeling, Operations and Writing at Daiichi Sankyo where he leads a global organization responsible for delivering compliant and timely regulatory data and information to global Health Authorities and building a regulatory information management framework that is fit-for-purpose. In his career he previously led Regulatory Operations teams at bluebird bio, Boehringer Ingelheim, AbbVie and Astellas. Scott’s focus is on developing the people in his organization, investigating technology to improve process and compliance, and partnering within industry to improve standards, process and technology.

Brooke currently works as a Global Submissions Manager at Pfizer. Within this capacity, she project manages timelines and deliverables for regulatory submissions in emerging markets. She hosts and leads Regulatory Submission Kick-off Meetings which bring together the key submission stakeholders—Product Strategists, CMC strategists, Regional strategists, regional team members, dossier coordinators, and artwork/labelling/sample colleagues. She drives the timelines and deliverables for these submissions to health authorities worldwide. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Iona College.

John Janick is a Director within Global Regulatory Affairs and Clinical Safety at Merck. He has a diverse background of innovation, process improvement, and technology acumen with over 20 years of pharmaceutical industry experience. John has held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility across regulatory and global human health. He leads a team responsible for labeling operations, information integration, and intelligent business automation. He is a Sigma Black Belt, mentor, and Kaizen leader. He earned his BS in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University and his Masters in Information Systems Management from the Stevens Institute of Technology.

Ken Keefer, MBA, is founder of Keefer Consulting Inc., dedicated to helping biopharmaceutical companies solve business problems through information technology. He has worked with clients including Pfizer, Merck, and GSK in transforming R&D and commercial business processes. He managed the review of the eTMF Exchange Mechanism Standard (eTMF-EMS), Version 1.0, for the TMF Reference Model Group, an initiative under the auspices of DIA. (eTMF-EMS is a common standard for exchanging trial master file documents between systems.) He holds an MBA from Temple University and a Post-graduate Certificate in Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Business from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

Venu Mallarapu is a leading industry expert in Life Sciences R&D. In his current role he is working as global market lead for Cognizant Life Sciences R&D technology consulting services. He spent the past 20 years in providing business and technology strategies to transform Clinical, Regulatory Affairs, Safety & PV. He is actively working in helping the industry in adoption of Decentralized Clinical Trails, building technology to drive Digital Medicine, implement platforms to drive end-to-end transformation in Safety & PV and Regulatory Affairs and develop solutions to adopt disruptive technologies like AI, ML, NLP and Blockchain in Life Sciences R&D.

Sue Metz currently works for parexel as Vice President Regulatory Product Management, and is a subject matter expert with hands on experience in RIM, XEVMPD, and IDMP. Sue has over 30 years of experience defining and designing software, processes, and services in the life sciences industry. She is a standing member of the EU ISO IDMP Task Force and the Product sub-group, the US TAG ISO/TC 215/WG6 and is the President/CEO of the IRISS Forum.

Remco Munnik is a Director at Iperion, a Deloitte company. He has more than 20 years’ experience in Life Science and Regulatory Affairs, including more than a decade providing consultancy around Regulatory Information Management (RIM) and electronic submissions. He is a respected subject matter expert in RIM, eCTD, xEVMPD and ISO IDMP. Remco is Chair of Medicines for Europe Telematics group; and President of the IRISS Forum, a global, open, multidisciplinary, non-profit networking organisation for life science professionals by life science professionals.

Matt Neal is an author and frequent keynote speaker. He joined Atara Biotherapeutics in 2019 as the Head of Regulatory Operations. Prior to that, Matt was the Head of Product Management for the InSight Suite of Regulatory Information Management Solutions at Parexel, Inc. and partnered with Microsoft. Before joining PAREXEL, Matt was a Director of Regulatory & Safety Operations at Amgen, Inc. (2003-2016) and was one of the pioneering members of the Regulatory Submissions Department for GlaxoSmithKline (1996-2003). Matt has been publishing and submitting electronic dossiers to the FDA since 1996, and submitted the very first fully electronic NDA for GSK in 1999.

Vada A. Perkins is Vice President. Global Head of Regulatory Policy & Intelligence for Boehringer Ingelheim. He is a former FDA Senior Advisor for Regulatory Science with international regulatory policy and strategy expertise in promoting convergence for the assessment of medicinal products worldwide. He received his degrees from Johns Hopkins University, University of Southern California, and the University of Maryland.

Jonathan Resnick is a member of CDER’s Division of Data Management Services and Solutions, with a focus on eCTD and has been with FDA for 14 years. Prior to joining FDA, Jonathan spent 18 years working in IT project management supporting federal and private sector clients.

JJames Riddle is the Senior Vice President of Global Review Operations at Advarra, the world’s largest provider of ethics, safety, and compliance oversight reviews services. With 25+ years’ experience providing support to the clinical research community, Riddle has operational responsibility for Advarra’s global review services including IRB, IBC, DMC, EAC. In this role, he helps sponsors, CROs, and research sites advance clinical research with a mission to improve human health. Riddle is a regular speaker at industry events and has written abundantly on research compliance and efficiency topics. He is also a member of CTTI, NWABR, SASI, and PRIM&R.

Sandra M. Sanford, RN, MSN, CIP has been involved in the conduct of human subjects research for more than 30 years in a wide variety of roles – research nurse (George Washington University, Department of Emergency Medicine), Director of Education and Certification (ACRP), Director of Accreditation (NCQA), Director of Research Subject Protections (George Mason University) and the Human Research Protections Education Specialist (contractor to the Department of the Navy HRPP). Currently she holds the position of Director of Quality Control at Advarra IRB.

Lena Shafir - Director, Life Sciences Lena Shafir head of OpenText Life Science Solution Product Management team. Lena is an accomplished leader bringing a wealth of experience in Life Sciences. Lena offers solution-oriented, business-outcome approach backed by years of field experience in ECM, Regulatory Solutions, and business process development. Lena is defining strategy to deliver enterprise-grade solutions to Life Sciences customers supporting full product development cycle.

Chet Shemanski is the Vice President of Marketing, North America at Ennov. Chet is a business and information technology professional with over 30 years of experience serving the healthcare and global life sciences industries. He has specific expertise in software product commercialization including product management, product marketing, solution strategy and full-lifecycle solution delivery. With a focus on Regulatory, Quality and Clinical content and process management solutions, Chet was worked for a variety of software and services companies including PAREXEL, LIQUENT, NextDocs, CSC and First Consulting Group.

Robin Zumbrunnen is Applications Manager, Submissions Operations, for the Regulatory Sciences group of Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions. She has more than 34 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, focusing in the areas of publishing and compilation of pre- and post-approval global regulatory submissions. She is responsible for oversight of regulatory submission publishing tools, technical support, processes and training.

Wim Cypers has been with ArisGlobal for 23 years. In his current role, he heads all business unit operations for our regulatory domain, including overall product vision, strategy, implementation, and success of ArisGlobal’s Regulatory Solution Suite. Wim has long standing experience in converting business requirements into application functionality; and consistently showing industry thought leadership through speaking engagements at several industry events. He has applied his pharmacist training into a keen understanding of how to solve complex business issues. Before focusing exclusively on ArisGlobal’s Regulatory Business Unit, Wim managed the company’s strategy and product management function for both the safety and regulatory solutions.

Brian Burke-Green is a Regulatory Submissions Manager within Worldwide Regulatory & Safety, WRO - Submissions Management. Brian specializes in Emerging Markets with a current focus on the Latin American Region, overseeing a portfolio of over fifteen hundred Submissions. Brian is also functioning as Project Lead on advancing submission processes through AI & Automation. Brian has worked in several Regulatory Consulting roles involved with Global Submissions Management prior to joining Pfizer has over eight years’ experience as a Pharmacy technician. Brian holds a B. Sc. In Biology from Temple University and a M. Sc. In Regulatory Affairs from St. John’s University.

Larry Callahan obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Chicago. He was previously employed at FDA, NIH and the United States Pharmacopiea (USP). He has been involved in Nucleic Acid, HIV, tuberculosis research and the development of analytical methods for biotechnology-derived products. He is responsible for the development of the FDA’s Global Substance Registration System (G-SRS). The G-SRS links substances to products, applications clinical trials and adverse events and has a number of relationships between substances.

Jillian Carinci is Sr. Director, Head of Submission Sciences group at Biogen. Jillian leads Biogen’s Global Delivery Managers and is responsible for overseeing global submissions, establishing processes, ensuring compliance, robust submission planning, tracking metrics, high quality submission delivery and process improvements. Jillian began her career at Octagon Research Solutions before transitioning to Accenture. During her tenure at Accenture Jillian partnered with sponsors to manage numerous regulatory submission projects, ensuring compliance with global regulatory requirements, delivering within scope, on time, and with the highest quality.

Amy Cheung is a Principal in Deloitte Consulting’s Life Sciences practice specializing in R&D. Amy has over 15 years’ consulting experience in the pharmaceutical industry. She worked for Merck as a researcher in chemistry prior to receiving her MBA. At Deloitte, she worked with clients to develop and implement options for productivity improvements and cost reduction; design and implement new operating models, governance and organizational structures. Her other experiences include development an outsourcing strategy, implementation of a clinical sample management strategy to enable biomarker research, and redesign of preclinical and clinical processes to improve quality and compliance.

Christina Frey is a Director in the Global Regulatory Affairs and Clinical Safety group at Merck & Co. She has 20 years of experience within the Pharmaceutical Industry, specifically Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance, Quality Control and Manufacturing Operations. She has a strong track record within the Regulatory and Quality Organizations, serving in various leadership roles around business process improvements, specifically quality and compliance initiatives. She is responsible for the business design and development of a global Dossier Change Control Management (DCCM) capability. This tool is the first of its kind in industry, providing users with global access to both current and historical views of changes to the dossier.

Terri Genthe has over 30 years experience in the biopharmaceutical arena, with over 20 in Regulatory Affairs. In Regulatory she has experience in global major submissions in Strategy and Operations roles. Prior to Genpact, she was the Vice President of Regulatory Operations at Teva Pharmaceuticals where she was responsible for the Information Management systems, Publishing and Centralized Services.

Mark Anthony Gregorio is an Adult Nurse Practitioner from New Haven, CT with many years of nursing experience across various specializations. He is currently the Director of Clinical Services at Pfizer Inc.’s Phase I New Haven Clinical Research Unit in New Haven, CT. He has oversight of research and health professionals and paraprofessionals that are responsible for the entire provision of clinical services and coordination activities in early drug development programs and clinical trial operations across various therapeutic areas and business/research units.

Kelly is a recognized industry leader in RIM and IDMP with 30 years in the pharma industry, the last 17 focused on Regulatory Affairs. She currently heads K2 Consulting, a specialty firm focused on Regulatory Affairs, has previously held leadership positions in IT and Regulatory Operations/RIM at Wyeth, Pfizer, Shire and Teva. Kelly is part of the Gens & Associates World Class RIM core reasearch team, has been actively involved in the EU implementation of IDMP as a member of the SPOR Task Force and its PMS subteam, and currently the President of IRISS Forum.

LaTarsha Jones began her 15 year career as a chemist with Cirrus Pharmaceuticals. While at Transave Inc., she discovered an interest in Regulatory Affairs. Following that interest, LaTarsha joined then Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals (currently Indivior Inc.) as a Regulatory Coordinator. She now leads a Global Regulatory Operations team at Indivior as a Senior Manager. LaTarsha earned her Bachelors of Science in Chemistry from Clemson University and Master of Science in Pharmaceutics from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Dr. Armen Kherlopian serves as Chief Science Officer at Genpact and has provided high impact Data Science advisory for Global Fortune 100 companies as well as government organizations. He is a co-founder of the Data Science Bowl, the largest data challenge for social good, and a co-author of the Field Guide to Data Science, which has over 25,000 copies in distribution. Also, Dr. Kherlopian is an awardee of the U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, U.S. Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, and a U.S. delegate to the Lindau Nobel Laureates Meetings. He holds a BS and MS in Biomedical Engineering from Columbia University, a PhD in Biophysics from Cornell University.

Raymond Nomizu is the co-founder and CEO of CRIO, an e-clinical provider for sponsors, CROs and sites. CRIO's system allows research sites to collect data accurately and contemporaneously, and sponsors to view the data in real-time, without costly source data verification. Prior to founding CRIO, Raymond owned and operated an independent clinical research site; co-founded a real estate data analytics firm; and served as a management consultant both independently and as a principal for The Boston Consulting Group. He has over 10 years of experience consulting senior management across multiple industries on issues of business strategy and process improvement. Raymond has AB and JD degrees from Harvard University.

Lena Rampula is leading the Natural Language Processing (NLP) Capability at Merck Prague IT Hub. The NLP group is developing solutions for gaining knowledge and insight from unstructured data. In all stages of drug development, NLP can be applied to provide intelligent search, extract key information from documents and automate processes. Lena holds a double master degree in Computational Linguistics.

Meredith Sewell is Sarepta’s Executive Director of Global Regulatory Operations, heading up the RIM and Submissions space. Meredith joined the company in 2019, and is enjoying working at a smaller, rare disease, gene therapy company after 14 years in Reg Ops at Allergan, and prior to that, Amgen Inc.

Frits Stulp is Managing Director of Iperion a Deloitte business, with over 20 years of industry and consultancy experience. In this role he leads a team of regulatory / IDMP experts active in various projects to deliver value to both pharmaceutical companies as well as regulators. Frits is the IDMP topic group lead for the IRISS Forum and heavily involved in the EU-SRS project for the Medicines Evaluation Board / European Medicines Agency as part of SPOR landscape. Frits is also Chariman of the Board of CTADHL, involved in Transatlantic adoption of IDMP (www.ctadhl.org). Regarded as an SME on IDMP, he gladly shares his gained knowledge and experience in various occasions around the globe.

Dave Warner has more than eighteen years experience working in Life Sciences EDMS as a Senior Developer, Technical Lead, Business Analyst, Project Manager and Implementation Specialist with FCG, CSC and -for the last couple of years - as a Regulatory Solutions SME with Generis. He's still amazed that no two days turn out the same, and excited at the new problem-solving opportunities promised by the latest developments in RIM.

Rob Connelly, Senior Director, Product Management, Synchrogenix- A Certara Company, brings a wealth of experience from the pharmaceutical and life-science industry, primarily focused on developing the people, processes and products needed to submit compliant regulatory filings with global health authorities. His job responsibilities focus on the management of multiple life-science software product lines and developing new products or services based on market opportunities and requirements. Previous job experience leading project teams in the planning and filing of successful clinical and marketing drug applications with global health authorities.

Heather Fisher is a Senior Regulatory Operations Manager at Arivis, where she serves as a collaborative extension of pharmaceutical clients’ regulatory teams. She is proud to support clients throughout the life of their regulatory applications to ensure life-changing medications are brought to market while meeting internal and agency driven goals. Heather has worked with Accenture for ten years prior to joining Arivis and has completed multiple NDA, IND, CTA and MAA applications in her tenure. She enjoys working with clients and helping them to learn eCTD and advance their knowledge to better meet the needs of their company.

Marc Gabriel is a Senior Director of Product Strategy at Veeva Systems where he is responsible for defining the enterprise market approach for the Vault Regulatory suite of products. Prior to joining Veeva in June 2017, he served as client partner and RIM consulting lead at Kinapse. Marc also spent fourteen years in Accenture’s Pharmaceutical R&D practice where he led the organization’s Regulatory advisory, business development, and alliance efforts. During that tenure he helped half of the world’s Top 20 biopharmaceutical organizations in various consulting and program delivery roles spanning regulatory and pharmacovigilance.

Steve Gens (MSOD) is the Managing Partner of Gens & Associates Inc., a global Life Science benchmarking and advisory firm specializing in performance improvement, strategy, industry analysis, benchmarking and organizational transition. His early career was spent at Johnson & Johnson in a variety of management positions and then transitioned to consulting where he lead global Life Science consulting practices for First Consulting Group and Booz Allen Hamilton. His organization is well known for their insightful industry benchmarks and World Class RIM thought leadership. Steve has a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Computer Science and a Master in Organizational Development and Performance.

Valerie M Gooding has been with FDA since January 2008. Valerie has over 18 years of Regulatory experience. She is currently a Project Management Officer (Team Lead) with Office of Business Informatics. As member of CDER’s Electronic Submissions Team, Valerie advises on eCTD, validation, guidance and compliance with electronic submission policies. Valerie facilitates eCTD viewer training to CDER review community and review and assess sample eCTD submissions and Briefing Packages. Prior to joining the FDA, Valerie worked 8 years for a local Pharmaceutical Company in Rockville, where she served as Regulatory Affairs Administrator in both Clinical and Regulatory Department.

Dr. Grandinetti is a reviewer in the Good Clinical Practice Assessment Branch of the Division of Clinical Compliance Evaluation /Office of Scientific Investigations in CDER/FDA. She provides regulatory and scientific oversight for CDER-assigned bioresearch monitoring activities and scientific and clinical oversight to FDA field investigators. She serves as a subject matter expert in GCP inspections to evaluate data integrity, quality, and safety of human subjects in clinical trials.

Professionally Andrea studied pharmacy in Heidelberg. After University, she started to work at Pharmalex as a contractor for Merck KGaA and then in 2003 joined Merck KGaA holding different positions within Global Regulatory Affairs (GRA) and Strategy & Business Operations within Research & Development (R&D). While working at Merck, she first did her Master of Drug Regulatory Affairs at DGRA (“Deutsche Gesellschaft für Drug Regulatory Affairs”) in Bonn and afterwards she did her doctor of science at the University of Bonn in the field "Regulatory Affairs". Since January 2018 she has taken over the role of Head of IDMP office, leading IDMP project as well as the implementation of IDMP, covering XeVMPD and other technology topics.

Sandy Krogulski is an experienced and solution oriented individual with over 10 years of submission experience. Sandy joined BMS in 2018, working on global submissions and process evolution. In her current role, Sandy is focusing on digitalization and automation of processes to improve submission strategy and business operations.

Fran Ross is Practice Director for Trial Master File Practice at Advanced Clinical, driving the implementation and expansion of our document management solutions and TMF consulting offerings. Fran oversees eTMF optimization projects, including conversions, system deployment, migrations, reporting and inspection surety. Fran has over thirty years of industry and academic trial experience including CTMS, QMS, TMF, clinical operations and risk management. Fran is an active member of TMF Reference Model Steering Committee.

Lisa obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from Rutgers University. Her career at BMS began in 1999 where she worked in Global Regulatory, Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Control for 14 years. In 2013 she moved to Global Regulatory Science-Regulatory Information Management where she worked on data compliance for BMS’ RIM system. BMS began work to replace the homegrown system with a new authoritative source for regulatory information management, Lisa was involved in choosing the tool, configuration, data governance, stewardship and compliance. In 2016 Lisa was promoted to Director, Data Stewardship and Compliance. As the Lead Regulatory Data Steward she has responsibility for overseeing the data compliance program.

Michael is a member of Medidata’s Mobile Health team and is a subject matter expert in electronic informed consent and virtual trials. Over the last six years, Michael has worked collaboratively with sponsors, CROs, regulators, ethics committees and researchers around the world to pioneer the use of electronic informed consent and virtual trials. His 30-year career in medical research includes 8 years with the US government conducting and supporting surgical research and 22 years working in the commercial sector. Michael has been a participant in two clinical trials...but had to consent on paper because eConsent had not been invented yet!

Ginny serves as Chief of CBER's Data Standards Branch, where she leads a multidisciplinary team that advances standards such as eCTD, CDISC, IDMP, ICSR, SPL and related terminologies. She is Program Manager for Project PRISM, co-Chair of the FDA Data Standards Advisory Board and FDA Topic Lead for the ICH M2 Electronic Standards EWG. Ginny has worked in informatics at FDA since 2004.

Lisa Lin has worked as a Study Data Standards manager at FDA CBER for over a year. Currently she is responsible for all study data standards projects in CBER, including data validation, evaluation and testing of SEND standard for CBER, data analysis tool training and support. Before CBER, Lisa had worked in CDER as Data Standards lead. Her contribution includes the Development of Technical Rejection Criteria, Technical Conformance Guide, FDA Business Rules, eData mailbox, training and support of analysis tools, consultation on Pre-NDA/Pre-BLA/IND meetings. Before joining FDA, Lisa had worked as project lead on clinical trial analysis in pharmaceutical companies.