ShareFEST 2012 Keynote Speakers:

Steve Aylward, General Manager, US EPG Health Care & Life Sciences, Microsoft Corp.

Steve Aylward currently serves as General Manager of US EPG Healthcare & Life Sciences. In this role, he is responsible for Microsoft’s healthcare strategy as well as marketing, services and partner execution in the health plan, provider and life sciences customer segments.

Steve has more than 20 years of experience and success in healthcare sales, marketing and management, having joined Microsoft after a thirteen-year career at Siemens Medical Solutions and Shared Medical Systems (SMS), where he was most recently responsible for Revenue Cycle Solutions. Through his experience with Siemens’ Healthcare Data Exchange subsidiary (HDX), Steve gained a detailed knowledge of the need for providers, health plans, and other healthcare parties to collaborate and connect for better health outcomes.

Ken Lownie, Vice President Global Services, NextDocs

As the head of the NextDocs Worldwide Implementation Services team, Ken is responsible for ensuring that every NextDocs implementation leads to a successful “go-live” that delivers exceptional value to the customer. Ken leads a global team of consultants that are responsible for installing and configuring NextDocs solutions, and he is responsible for the definition and deployment of NextDocs project delivery methodology and best practices. Prior to NextDocs, Ken was the Chief operating officer of Glemser Technologies, a content management solutions provider for life sciences companies. Prior to Glemser, he played executive roles at several software and IT services companies, including Art Technology Group (ATG), where he was Vice President of Global Services, and Renaissance Worldwide. In addition to his corporate roles, Ken has started and led several successful ventures, including Connexus Consulting Group, which focused on the Lotus Notes market. Ken began his career at Lotus Development Corporation. Ken earned a BA from Colgate University and a Masters in the Management of Technology from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Fabien Jolly, VP Clinical Technology and Information Management, Sanofi

Fabien Jolly heads the Technology and Innovation department of Sanofi’s Clinical platform. After beginning his career as a software developer, he joined the Phamaceutical industry in 1992 and has led different vertical and crossfunctional business technology organizations within the R&D. He received advanced management training under Jamshid Gharajedaghi of the School of Business at Villanova University in Systems Thinking, an approach that promotes a holistic understanding of the interactions between the parts of a system to understand its whole behaviour. Global at heart, he advocates multicultural diversity as a driver of innovation. His team, located in Europe, US and China, has received several innovation awards over the past years for the work done in the clinical technology space.

Dux Raymond Sy, Managing Partner, Innovative-e, Inc.

With over 15 years of experience in Information Technology and Project Management, Dux has earned a reputation as among the leading experts in leveraging technology to enhance project management. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP), he is currently a managing partner and the chief evangelist of Innovative-e, Inc., a Microsoft-certified, business technology consulting and services company that employs a business-first approach to successfully implement SharePoint for clients.

As a thought leader in maximizing project team collaboration, he is the author of “SharePoint for Project Management” published by O’Reilly Media. He is focused on empowering organizations on how to leverage the benefits of SharePoint technologies with quantifiable goals such as: Increasing productivity and efficiency, decreasing collaboration redundancies and streamlining electronic communications.

A sought after speaker, Dux has presented in various Microsoft and Project Management Institute (PMI) events. Additionally, he facilitates a “Delivering SharePoint Success” mentoring workshop where he shares proven best practices in managing SharePoint projects.
He regularly blogs on topics related to project management, SharePoint and globalization at MeetDux.com.

Dennis Schmuland, MD FAAFP Chief Health Strategy Officer US Health & Life Sciences Microsoft Corporation

Dr. Dennis Schmuland serves as Microsoft’s Chief Health Strategy Officer for the US Health and Life Sciences (HLS) division. As Microsoft’s senior health industry executive, his responsibilities include thought leadership with customers and partners, long term vision & strategic plan, consumer engagement, industry solution strategy, and public and analyst relations across the four vertical lines of business within US HLS: Health & Human Services, Health Insurance, Providers, and Life Sciences. In 2009 he received the distinguished Microsoft Circle of Excellence award for exceptional business leadership, thought leadership and strategic innovation.

ShareFEST 2012 Speakers:

Joan Affleck, Senior Director, Sanofi

Joan Affleck is a Senior Director at Sanofi, US. She has over 15 years of international experience in the pharmaceutical industry in operational delivery, process improvement, information management, and project-related services. Currently she is the Head of Clinical Documentation, a global organization of over 100 employees, and sponsor of the CRUISE Program, a trail blazing project for innovative management of clinical information through structured authoring and content reuse. Ms. Affleck is a Villanova University graduate and is currently pursuing graduate study at Columbia University.

Michael Agard, Senior Consultant, Life Sciences, Paragon Solutions, Inc

Michael joined Paragon Solutions in 2010 and is presently engaged as the Senior Business Analyst for the design and implementation of an electronic trial master file at AstraZeneca. On this project, Michael has worked with the client and NextDocs on the CTMS integration, DIA TMF Reference Model, document tracking, workflows, digital signatures and SharePoint 2010 features. Michael has also worked on the integration of a scanning and indexing custom interface.
Prior to this Michael worked at Sanofi-Aventis for over 25 years. He has experience in Clinical Operations, Data Management, Product Development and Clinical Packaging. Michael was involved with a number of computer system implementations to improve document automation, quality, process optimization and compliance.
In 2009, Michael received his Masters in Leadership Development from Penn State. Michael also has a BS in Pharmacy. He is a member of the DIA, IIBA and the TriState SharePoint Group.

Bhanu Bahl, Program Manager – CRUISE program, Sanofi

Bhanu Bahl is working in Sanofi in the Clinical Sciences and Operation Department as a Program Manager on CRUISE program which is delivering on Structured Content Management objectives in clinical research domain setting a benchmark in innovation, quality and collaboration.

Bhanu is a physician and an informatician by training; graduated with Masters in Biomedical Informatics from Columbia University. She has a PMP certification from Project Management Institute and a Lean Six Sigma green Belt certification.

Art Bellis, VP, Sales & Alliances, GimmalSoft

Art Bellis is Vice President of Sales & Alliances for Gimmal. He brings 20 years of experience developing and marketing records management software to his role at Gimmal. Art is recognized as an industry expert and has been regularly called upon by ARMA and AIIM to speak on issues related to technology and information management. Various academic programs including the University of British Columbia, University of Washington and Vancouver Community College call on Art to lecture on records management issues and trends. Art possesses an extensive working knowledge of enterprise content & records management and has a proven track record developing and executing on both direct and channel sales strategies.

Patricia Brady, Sr. International Clinical Trial Manager, Sanofi U.S.

Patricia has over 15 years of clinical experience starting as a Medical Program Coordinator for Pulmonary Immunology at Merck. In this role she managed Pivotal Phase II –III trials within their Rheumatoid Arthritis Program. During this pilot project, Mrs. Brady pioneered the use of electronic data capture. Currently at Sanofi-Aventis she focuses on the use of collaborative technology to facilitate operational excellence in clinical research specifically on the electronic Trial Master File and Collaboration with external users.

Janet Buck, Information Technology, Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc.

In her current role, Janet leads Otsuka’s Enterprise Business Application Organization in which she defines the strategy and architecture for the company’s use of SharePoint for their Internet, Intranet and Collaboration Portals. Her other key areas of support include Global Content Management, Quality and Compliance, Finance, Human Resources, Legal and Technical Operations. Janet has over twenty years of leadership experience deploying applications within several large Life Sciences companies with the last eight years focused on content management for Quality and Compliance documents. Her current challenge is the development of a governance model for a SharePoint environment that encompasses all aspects of intranet and collaboration portal usage by the enterprise.

Jeff Burk, Vice President Product Management, NextDocs

Jeff is a product management executive with extensive experience in Internet services and consumer products. As VP of Product Management, he is responsible for defining and implementing NextDoc’s product strategy across all of its existing and emerging product offerings.

Prior to joining NextDocs, Jeff was Executive Vice President, Software Development at The Neat Company, maker of NeatReceipts and NeatDesk.  At Neat, Jeff was theProduct Owner for the company’s flagship products delivering multiple product releases while growing annual product revenue from $5.4 MM to $23.1 MM to an annual run rate of $32 MM.  Before Neat, Jeff spent over 15 years in product and software development across a broad range of industries including technology, media, and consumer products. He has held senior technical and product positions with a variety companies, including Narrative Communications, Salesnet, Excite@Home, StarCite and Monster Worldwide (Monster.com).

Jeff earned a B.S. in Information Technology from the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, MA. Jeff is a passionate Agile practitioner and leader in successfully implementing agile development techniques, such as Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP), driving cultural change in organizations.

Evan Callender, Director, West Monroe Partners

Evan Callender is a Director in the Customer Experience practice at West Monroe Partners, a full-service business and technology consulting firm focused on guiding organizations through projects that fundamentally transform their business. Evan, who has over 13 years of experience in architecture definition, application design, development, and packaged software implementation, partners with global pharmaceutical firms to help them strategize, plan and implement ECM solutions and execute full scale change management programs to promote the adoption of these systems.

Evan’s primary focus is Microsoft web technologies in data management with portal and content management products using SharePoint 2007/2010. He has served over 40 SharePoint clients over the past 7 years, completing more than 15 migrations from previous versions of SharePoint or other third party applications. His key strength lies in his ability to optimize SharePoint’s features and functionality to meet the needs of his clients while being able to customize SharePoint when necessary to create cost effective, integrated and scalable solutions.

Dennis Cardinal, Domain Manager chez sanofi-aventis

Denis Cardinal has been with sanofi for more than 15 years and currently serves as the Clinical Information & Collaboration – Domain Manager for sanofi R&D Clinical Platform. In this role Denis has been responsible for the implementation of a Clinical Trial Portal aiming to facilitate operational excellence in this area and specifically the collaboration with external users through a true electronic Trial Master File solution. Prior to this role, he held various positions in sanofi R&D and executed numerous technology solution implementation projects/programs in Clinical Development, Pharmacovigilance and Transverse functions. Denis has a Master’s degree in Engineering in Computer Science.

Andy Corts, Chief Information Officer, Sarah Cannon Research

Andy is an accomplished healthcare IT professional with experience in developing and executing IT strategies focused on application management, infrastructure strategies, and governance. In his previous role as director of Collaborative Services at SCRI, he was responsible for the development of SCRI’s electronic health record strategy as well as the clinical trial portal, mySCRI. Prior to joining SCRI, he was a director in HCA’s IT Strategy and Planning group and a senior consultant at Cap Gemini Ernst and Young. Andy received his bachelor’s degree in French and International Business in 1999 from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Kaumil Dalal, Senior Architect at West Monroe Partners LLC

Kaumil Dalal is a Senior Architect within West Monroe Partners’ Customer Experience practice with over 10 years of experience in managing, architecting, integrating and implementing various n-tier custom developed applications as well as implementing packaged software solutions. Kaumil has experience with a wide breadth of industries including Healthcare Provider, Healthcare Payer and Pharmaceuticals.

W. David Debany, Senior Associate in the Regulatory Operations group at Millennium

W. David Debany is a Senior Associate in the Regulatory Operations group at Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company. Mr. Debany is responsible for assessing technology needs for the Regulatory Affairs department, working with Medical Informatics to develop and implement new technology initiatives. Mr. Debany has over 8 years of experience in Regulatory Operations as a publisher, writer, trainer, and business analyst.

Gabor Fari, Director Life Sciences Solutions, Microsoft Corporation .

In his role as Director of Life Sciences Solutions in the Health & Life Sciences Industry Unit, Gabor Fari plays a key role in defining and executing on Microsoft’s Life Sciences solutions and business strategy. His main areas of focus are Enterprise Content Management, Regulated Document Management and Clinical Trials. Gabor is also the architect and driving force behind the Intelligent Content Framework, with the mission to introduce an entirely new way of managing Enterprise Content in Regulated Industries, based on the latest XML technologies and standards. Gabor serves as the Microsoft representative on several DIA SIAC groups and the OASIS DITA Pharmaceutical Content Subcommittee.

Dr. Ingo Florian, Head of QA, Mundipharma

Dr. Ingo Florian has been with Mundipharma since 2008. In his current role he serves as the Head of QA Germany & Central Eastern Europe Issues. Prior responsibilities at Mundipharma included installation and maintenance of QA and PhV-Systems in the CEEC and implementation of PAT & Quality Risk Management. He received his Ph.D. at the Humboldt University Berlin.

Michael Gannotti, Technical Solution Professional, Malvern Technology Center,  Microsoft

Michael Gannotti has been working with SharePoint since its initial launch in 2001. A well-known advocate and evangelist of SharePoint and social Media, Michael is a SharePoint expert and highly energetic presenter.

David Gwyn, Vice President of Research & Development for HighPoint Solutions

Mr. Gwyn is Vice President of Research & Development as well as Collaboration Practices for HighPoint Solutions. With more than 20 years of experience in the Life Sciences industry, David is a seasoned executive with extensive experience delivering Documentum and SharePoint. He is responsible for solution vision and strategy and is an expert in business development, client management, client solution delivery, and team development. He is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI), International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), and the Drug Information Association (DIA). David’s academic credentials include an M.B.A from the University of Phoenix and a B.S. in Computer Science from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

John Holliday, CEO of SharePoint Architects

John Holliday is CEO of SharePoint Architects, a SharePoint consultancy focused on enterprise content management, records management and business process automation. John is the author of “Professional SharePoint 2007 Records Management Development”, and has co-authored many popular SharePoint development books, including “Professional SharePoint 2007 Development”. He is the developer of the CAML.NET Framework, which enables developers to create SharePoint queries more easily, and the CAML.NET Intellisense add-in for Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. John is also the founder of the SharePoint Developer Network (www.SharePointDeveloper.org – twitter: @SPDEVNET), which is committed to helping SharePoint developers find jobs and professional support.

Les Jordan, Life Sciences Industry Technology Strategist, Microsoft.

Les provides architectural and technical guidance to internal Microsoft product teams, partners and pharmaceutical companies, essential acting as the CTO of the life sciences team. He also serves as the Director of the BioIT Alliance in 2006. At ShareFEST, Les will be discussing Microsoft’s strategy for the life sciences market and the ecosystem of life sciences vendors that has developed around SharePoint.

Dr. Joerg Koehler, Chief Organization Officer, IDT Biologika GmBH

As Chief Organization Officer, Dr. Joerg Koehler plays a key role in analyzing, defining and executing of company-wide business processes and Computerized Systems. He advances the standardization and integration of processes, IT-technology and master data. His strategic focus is on Supply Chain Management, Quality and Compliance. More than 15 years of experience in Supply Chain Management, Project Management, Data Analyzing, Business Process Management and Information Technology in the Pharmaceutical Industry and the Public Sector helps him to stay in a demanding collaboration with the Business Units and the QA-Department and support them with Change Management.

Maria Latulippe, Vice President of Product Development, LIQUENT

Maria Latulippe is the Vice President of Product Development of LIQUENT. Product Development encompasses the product management, engineering, testing, and documentation teams. LIQUENT is focused on providing high value, services and software based solutions that meet Life Sciences clients’ needs across their regulated business processes that support product development, approval, and lifecycle. Maria has formerly held the Director position over each of these departments within LIQUENT.

Maria has more than 20 years experience in technology and professional services firms, including management at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and Intellisophic, Inc. She was an early leader at ESPS, which became LIQUENT prior to an IPO and subsequent sales.

Raoul-A. Lorenz, CEO, LORENZ Life Sciences Group

Raoul-A. Lorenz has been the CEO of the LORENZ Life Sciences Group since 2006. After he completed his studies at the European Business School in the UK, he started with LORENZ in 1996. In 1999, he became CEO of reg123.com Limited, a regulatory affairs information portal. Since 2000, he has taken on successive Directorships at LORENZ, including the UK, US, Canadian, German and finally the Indian divisions of the LORENZ Life Sciences Group. Prior to becoming the CEO, Raoul was appointed VP Sales & Marketing for the Group in 2003. Raoul has also led workshops at numerous events on electronic submissions in Europe, North America and Australia, as well as presented on the topic at DIA, BIRA/TOPRA, and others. He was also the chairman of the Drug Information Association (DIA) Special Interest Area Committee for Communications & Publications in 2001/2002.

Scott Metker, Chief Engineer/Architect, RWD Technologies.

Dr. Metker is a Chief Engineer for RWD’s Technology Implementation and Integration Practice. He develops and supports Content Management Systems (CMS), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, and XML authoring and publishing solutions for a variety of clients and industries. Dr. Metker has significant experience configuring and interfacing CRM and EMC solutions, such as Siebel, Documentum and SharePoint, in regulated, validated environments. He is the architect of RWD’s infoMaestro Integrated Medical Communications Solution which has been deployed to a number of large pharmaceutical organizations globally. Dr. Metker has a bachelor’s degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from the Pennsylvania State University.

Erik Korsvik Østergaard, Senior Business Consultant and Manager at ProActive

Erik Korsvik Østergaard is a Senior Business Consultant and Manager at ProActive, delivering Microsoft solutions to the key processes in Life Science (GxP/non-GxP). During the past 10 years, Erik has focused on implementing and adopting SharePoint solutions and services on enterprise scale to international Life Science companies, as project/programme manager in the industry (at Novo Nordisk) and as consultant. Focus areas are web/SharePoint/ECM strategy, governance in all aspects, QA/QC and Organizational Change Management.

Vasu Ranganathan, President, ArborSys Group

Vasu Ranganathan is an Information Technology (IT) professional with over twenty years experience in strategic management consulting, IT solutions development and delivery, and operations management.  As president and a principal of ArborSys Group, Ms. Ranganathan has responsibility for defining and delivering ArborSys’s consulting services and solutions. Her primary focus is strategic business and IT planning, business performance management, program/portfolio management, and solutions delivery.

Ms. Ranganathan has provided strategic consulting services to global regulated organizations in business strategy and IT planning initiatives. She has extensive experience in working with executive and senior management teams to define, measure and report on key business performance indicators at all levels of management.

Jeremiah Rehm, eClinical Solutions Specialist, BioClinica

Mr. Rehm has been an innovator in Life Sciences for over 15 years and spent the last 10 of those designing and maintaining the industry’s fastest growing Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS). Prior to joining BioClinica, Mr. Rehm worked as a technology consultant and led the product management team at TranSenda International. He specializes in the use of Microsoft products to consolidate and analyze operational study information, including the translation of this data into meaningful performance metrics.

Joanne Ritchie, Study Process, Systems and Tools Leader, Clinical Operations, AstraZeneca

Joanne has over 18 years experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry mainly in the CV, Respiratory, Immunology and Oncology therapeutic areas. Her experience ranges from Study Design at Covance Labs in Geneva, Switzerland and Clinical Data Management at Covance and AstraZeneca. Joanne gained additional experience in the industry as an AstraZeneca Regional Monitor.
Most recently, Joanne has managed the global Trial Master File at AstraZeneca and has taken on the role as the business lead responsible for the design and implementation of the electronic Trial Master File.

Matthew Roberts, National Competency Lead, Collaboration & Content Management
EMC Consulting

Matt Roberts leads EMC Consulting’s Portals, Collaboration, & Content Management consulting practice in North America. Responsibilities include technical thought leadership & evangelism, go-to-market strategy, delivery readiness, strategic sales & delivery, community enablement, and solution offering development.

Greg Sanderson, Technical Specialist, K2

As a Technical Specialist, Greg provides technical, architectural, and engineering support to K2′s Business Development team in the US East territory. He draws on 14 years of experience in software application design, architecture, analysis, training, and implementation. Prior to K2, he worked for a division of News Corp most recently as a Project/IT Manager. There he was responsible for both internal and external portal and application development. This role also included responsibility for two development teams, one specializing in SharePoint/Microsoft technology and the other in the J2EE platform. Other past roles include SharePoint Developer, Business Analyst, and Trainer.

Dieter Schlaps, Service Area Lead, Drug Regulatory Affairs for Life Sciences, NNIT

Dieter Schlaps has more than 10 years of experience in Pharmaceutical IT specializing in Medical Statistics, Pattern Recognition, Clinical Data Management and Document Management. He has a deep pharmaceutical business understanding, high regulatory and technical expertise. Dieter Schlaps is Service Area Lead in Regulatory Document Management, Electronic Submissions, Labeling and Validation Processes.

Dr. Hans Jürgen Schwarz, Head of Scientific Relations & Knowledge Management, Grünenthal Europe & Australia

Hans-Jürgen has over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. As Head of Scientific Relations & Knowledge Management he has been responsible for the implementation of a knowledge management solution for Grünenthal Europe & Australia. Prior to this role he held various positions in Medical Affairs, Marketing and Clinical Development. He received his Ph.D in Molecular Genetics at the University of Bonn.

Sue Trombley, Director of Consulting, Iron Mountain Systems

Sue Trombley, director of consulting at Iron Mountain, has more than 25 years of information technology and records management and information management experience in a variety of industries. Her specialties are enterprise information management strategy, e-mail management strategy, and electronic records roadmap development. Trombley holds a master’s degree in library and information science and is a frequent speaker at association events and webinars.

Jennifer L Willhide, Documentation and Operational Compliance Systems Supervisor, DynPort

With 8 years of experience in Quality Assurance at DynPort, Jennifer has managed quality systems including CAPA, Change Control, Deviation/Investigations and Internal Audits. During the validation of the company’s electronic document management system, Jennifer used her knowledge of SharePoint to integrate existing quality systems into the new environment. Jennifer acts as the System Administrator and is responsible for IT Change Control and validation efforts to maintain Part 11 compliance. Currently, she is upgrading DynPort’s EDMS to SharePoint 2010 and is executing the resulting validation activities.

Shawn Ye, Senior Specialist on Information Management at AstraZeneca

Shawn Ye has majored in computer science and has almost 10 years of information technology working experience. He is a IS/IT Senior Specialist on Information Management at AstraZeneca ICC (Innovation Center China) when ICC was opening, back to year 1997. His role is to architect, build and support the scientific platform infrastructure and lab computing environment. He has alsso worked as a IT Security Manager, working closely with the quality and compliance manager to ensure the AZ global standards and external requirement are met. For the last one and half years, he has been working on developing solutions to better manage ICC’s huge electronic data in a flexible, efficient, lower cost and compliance way.

Ralf Zimmermann, Head of Document & Raw Data Management, Roche Diagnostics GmbH

Working since 2002 at Roche Diagnostics in the Document Management area implementing and supporting solutions based on Documentum, EdocCompliance, Sharepoint and SAP DMS. Since 15 years experiences in IT developments in the medical products industry in fields like Business Process Engineering, Content Management, B2B solutions and Document Management.
PhD in Biophysics (Technical University Munich), post Doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, USA. Trainer for European Medical law regulations.