Katherine has nearly 30 years of experience within the pharmaceutical industry, in large and small pharma, as well as 15 years in the service sector. Her statistical career has spanned all phases of drug development, including supporting regulatory submissions, as well as registries and observational studies. In her managerial career, Katherine has gained an in-depth knowledge of operational management, supporting and developing staff in their careers, whilst maintaining a focus on client needs.

Katherine’s particular interest is client relationship management: supporting and developing requirements to support the client needs, backed up with excellent project and budget management.

Katherine has an MSc in Applied Statistics (1994, Sheffield Hallam University) and a BSc in Mathematics (1986, Leeds University). As an active member of Statisticians in Pharmaceutical Industry (PSI), Katherine has held positions on their Board of Directors, including Chair (2011-2012).

Emma is responsible for enabling the Veramed Biostatistics team to achieve the highest levels of quality from consultancy to reporting. Emma continues to provide statistical consultancy to clients to maintain her statistical acumen.

Emma has a wealth of experience in vendor oversight, statistical consultancy and of clinical statistical analysis gained from a variety of leading global pharmaceutical companies. She has knowledge in both technical and non-technical aspects of study design and statistical analysis across clinical studies from Phase I-III and multiple therapeutic areas, including oncology, respiratory and immunology.

Emma holds a PhD in Statistics and is an active member of Statisticians in Pharmaceutical Industry (PSI). Emma was the Conference Chair for the 2015 and 2016 annual conference in London and Berlin, respectively.

As Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Matthew’s responsibilities include the provision of strategic direction and operational leadership to the company. He also provides oversight and management for the delivery of key projects.

Matthew began his pharmaceutical career in SAS programming with Oxford Pharmaceutical Sciences (now Quanticate), where he honed his technical skills through various positions of ascending seniority. He subsequently worked in a variety of freelance and permanent programming positions across the industry for both CRO and large Pharma, and developed a deep working knowledge of several different outsourcing models.

Matthew holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Nottingham (1999) and an executive MBA from Cranfield University (2006).

Kien-Sen has over 10 years’ experience specialising in business development and recruitment within the pharmaceutical and CRO industries. With a focus primarily in statistics and SAS programming he has been able to build up a large network of contacts and candidates within this sector. He is always interested in forging new relationships and building rapport with existing clients and takes a consultative approach to his work.

He started his career in 2007 at James Harvard, a specialist pharmaceutical recruitment business, before it was acquired by Hays, where he continued to develop until 2013. He subsequently moved to another specialist recruitment firm before taking the decision to move to Veramed. He is predominantly responsible for oversight of key client portfolios and helping to drive business forward at Veramed.

Kien-Sen has a BSc in Biochemistry (2006, Kings College London) and has been regularly attending the PHUSE and PSI conferences over the past 10 years.

Stuart is responsible for leading the development of the business as it evolves its position as the pharmaceutical industry’s preferred statistics and programming CRO partner.

Stuart has over 20 years of Pharmaceutical experience having first started work in anti-malaria research which took him to Moshi, Tanzania. He then moved to the Clinical Research Organisation Chiltern (latterly Covance) where he took on Business Development, Leadership and Alliance Partnership roles delivering significant growth over 19 years. Stuart has a wide platform of relationships in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, covering Europe, North America and Japan.

Stuart holds a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Surrey (1999) and recently received his level III wine diploma from the Wines and Spirits Education Trust.

As Finance Director & Head of Support Services, Charlie’s responsibilities include financial management and oversight of the business and leadership of Veramed’s support functions.

Charlie read law before working in the finance industry for 7 years, latterly as Director of Corporate Finance at VSA Capital where he developed his technical investment appraisal skills and learned the process of raising capital for companies privately and publicly.

Charlie trained as a management accountant, working at Premier Inn for five years in various positions of ascending seniority in the Financial Planning & Analysis, Financial Control and Investments Teams. He worked as an accounting consultant and tax adviser before joining Veramed in 2020.

Charlie is a Mandarin speaker, a Chartered Management Accountant (2016), a non-registered barrister (2006) and holds a BA from Sheffield University (2001).

Alexander drives all services around the non-regulatory work. He contributes his 20+ years of experience to ensure high quality data-driven decisions within sponsors and for patients, physicians, and payers.

Alexander worked in leading positions for sponsors over the first 2 decades of the century in various indications including immunology, virology, neuroscience, urology, respiratory, and psychiatry. He has expertise across all clinical phases. Since 2004, he has concentrated on successfully launching and commercializing new treatments.

Alexander holds a PhD in Biostatistics and is an active member of Statisticians in Pharmaceutical Industry (PSI) where he served on the board of directors, founded and chaired the Visualization Special Interest group, chaired the Benefit-Risk Special Interest group, and contributed to many conferences, webinars, and one-day-events.

In 2018, he launched The Effective Statistician podcast in association with PSI in which he shares his insights around leadership, innovation, knowledge, and excellence required for a successful career in the healthcare industry. Dozens of guests across the industry and beyond helped to create a wealth of content to serve the statistical community.

Vicki has over twenty years of experience within the pharmaceutical industry, initially beginning her career as a bio analyst, within the field of toxicology, then moving into statistical programming in 1998.

She has held various positions of ascending seniority and has led Global Programming Teams across multiple therapeutic areas and clinical trial phases from Phase I through to Phase IV.

She has significant experience in Late Development Oncology, Cardiovascular and Infectious disease therapy areas.

She has extensive experience in project management, and has overseen and driven the delivery of programming activities across multiple programs simultaneously, including submission deliverables, regulatory defence and reimbursement activities.

Vicki has a BSc in Biochemistry from Lancaster University (1995).

Andrew has over twenty years’ biostatistical experience in academia and industry from varied roles ranging from basic research through veterinary and pre-clinical work to late phase development applications.

His expertise includes clinical biostatistics; clinical study design, reporting and logistics; imaging informatics and medical image analysis, with applications in multiple therapeutic areas including neuroscience, cardiovascular, oncology and respiratory.

He also has detailed understanding of computing infrastructures, having been involved in software development, training and support.

Formally trained in pure mathematics (BSc, University of Durham, 1990) and statistics (MSc, University of Sheffield, 1991), Andrew gained a PhD from the University of Glasgow in 1994 for research into statistical methods for functional neuroimaging. He has co-authored numerous publications, book chapters and software packages.

Diana has been programming in SAS since 1996, moving from banking to the pharmaceutical industry in 1998. Her experience includes ten years as an independent contractor and involved working for a number of pharmaceutical companies with a significant global presence. She is an experienced line manager who has a passion for the professional development of programmers and statisticians.

Leveraging 20 years of programming expertise across the pharmaceutical sector, Diana is one of the critical success factors behind the Veramed Graduate Training Programme, which she set up and coordinates each year. Alongside this challenging role, Diana supports employee engagement activities, ensures consistency in approach and advises on line management styles to foster and encourage valued contributions across the company as a whole.

Diana has been actively involved with Pharmaceutical Users Software Exchange (PHUSE) since 2009, editing and contributing to the PHUSE quarterly newsletter and more recently contributing to the PHUSE blogs, as well as active participation in the EU conference across the Professional Development, Industry Starters, University Day and Poster streams. In 2018, Diana was honoured to be made a Lifetime Honorary Member of receive a Lifetime achievement for PHUSE for her significant contribution to the organisation over a number of years.

Diana’s roles have allowed exposure to multiple therapeutic areas and clinical trial phases from Phase I through to Phase IV. She has significant experience in Early Development and Phase I to III Oncology.

Clare has over 10 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry as well as a further 10 years working in the field of respiratory medicine, the latter in which she holds a PhD. Her experience spans a range of therapeutic areas (including respiratory, cardiovascular, CNS and autoimmune disease) and study phases, and includes significant early development expertise as well as pharmacokinetic studies. She also has outstanding leadership, project and process management skills, having held previous managerial positions in a global clinical research organisation.

Clare has an MSc in Medical Statistics (2005, University of Leicester) with a first degree in Natural Sciences (1995, University of Cambridge).

Louise has 14 years experience marketing a broad portfolio of brands and products in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. She uses her wealth of knowledge both client-side and as part of an agency to build omni-channel marketing strategies for Veramed.

Louise headed up marketing of late phase and comercialisation services for a global CRO, before setting up her own consultancy which she managed for seven years. This gave her unique experience of a cross-section of projects and services that she applies to her role within Veramed. Her responsibilities include marketing strategy, external and internal communications, branding and cultural development.

Louise holds a BA (Hons) in English (Queen Mary, University of London, 2007) and various marketing qualifications including a Diploma in Marketing (Oxford College of Marketing, 2010).

Jamie has 17 years’ experience as a programmer and a data manager in the pharmaceutical industry.

Jamie has a broad experience of working within a CRO – both at a small Phase I unit as well as Global CROs – progressing through the ranks to manager level. His varied career has given him exposure working on various phases and therapeutic areas.

With a proven track record in line management, Jamie is well placed to support Veramed’s expansion and lead the South Wales office in Swansea.

Annie has over 20 years’ business experience across a variety of industries, working primarily in project management, creative services and business administration.

Annie uses her wealth of experience, outstanding organisational skills and attention to detail to effectively manage the day-to-day running of Veramed.

Annie achieved a Post-graduate Diploma in Management Studies (1998, The University of Reading) and holds a BA(Hons) in International Business with German (1995, Sheffield Hallam University).

Mark has been working with SAS Software for nearly twenty years. He began his career as a Statistician in the pharmaceutical industry with a couple of global pharmaceutical companies, before moving into Consultancy where he gained experience not only with SAS but expanded his horizons with IT systems and processes in general.

Mark is passionate about delivering IT systems that add real value to an organisation, working with business stakeholders to define requirements and deliver high quality, high value solutions which he is able to do through his combined pharmaceutical and Consultancy experience.

Mark has an MSc in Medical Statistics (2002, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and a BSc in Mathematics, Statistics and Operational Research (2001, University of Wales). Mark holds several SAS certifications, and has previously been a member of the Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry (PSI) Board of Directors.

Lisa has over 30 years business experience across several industries, including 18 years working in Global CROs involved in Financial Systems Administration/Management, ERP Application Implementation/Support and Contracts Management.

Her varied career has allowed her to develop a broad business skill set including project management, business analysis, systems implementation, service management, process design and contract management.

Lisa utilises her blend of technical, organisational and analytical skills to manage the Client Proposals and Contracts function at Veramed, joining our client facing and internal processes together.