Speakers 2024

Kasper is a seasoned global leader within the pharmaceutical industry with a proven track record of leading digitalization and process improvements in the Quality space. Coming from a career across the pharmaceutical value chain, Kasper brings a solid understanding of customer requirements and perspectives.

Guided by an entrepreneurial mindset and a steadfast commitment to customer-centricity, Kasper strives to balance simplicity, efficiency, and compliance. His track record speaks volumes, showcasing his ability to navigate complex challenges while prioritizing the needs of both stakeholders and regulatory standards.

Johanna is an associate director at AstraZeneca with over 20 years of experience in document management. Specializing in improving document access, Johanna identifies and promotes opportunities to enable easy search and access to documents and improve data quality. With experience from different ways of working and various solutions for document management, Johanna’s ability to stay focused on the end-user experience ensures she delivers value in her area of expertise.

Pauline has over 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, spanning continents and roles in clinical research and quality. Her current focus is crafting a supplier management strategy to increase competitiveness through strategic supplier relationships, innovative use of technology, and adherence to quality standards.

Kate has spent over 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry. Currently, she is responsible for the documentation and training processes at Galapagos, where she has driven improvements in training strategy through periods of great organizational change. She remains committed to delivering impactful outcomes, for individuals and organizations.

Diane is a respected biopharmaceutical executive with 30+ years of international experience in quality, manufacturing, development and supply chain. She is a transformational leader who specializes in turning-around immature and/or inefficient quality organizations through her pragmatic, risk-based approach and collaborative style.

Annette joined MAIN5 GmbH & Co. KGaA as a management consultant in July 2021, with more than 30 years of experience in the global pharmaceutical industry. She has led teams in multiple areas of research and development, including regulatory affairs, pharmacovigilance, and quality. Her expertise lies in improving processes and implementing technical solutions to streamline operations. Communication between business and IT is her strength. Annette has held the Vault Platform Associate White Belt since February 2021. She supports Boehringer Ingelheim in implementing Veeva Vault Quality for supplier management in her current role.

Results-driven and forward-thinking leader with over 15 years of experience in the chemical/biopharma industries, specializing in continuous improvement strategies, eQMS, innovation, and new technology on a corporate level. Proven track record in business process ownership, project management, and organizational leadership. Active contributor to industry advisory boards and mentorship programs.

Hélène, with 22 years of experience at Sanofi, is a dynamic program leader with dual engineering degrees in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. Having navigated roles in development, manufacturing, and digital organizations, she returned to business management five years ago to spearhead the Quality Transformation program. Hélène is characterized by her dynamic persona, customer-centric approach and commitment , ensuring success and satisfaction in every interaction.

Phillipe has more than 20 years of experience in IT and digital domains. He holds a mechanical engineering degree and joined Sanofi in 2016 as an ERP deploy lead to support Sanofi’s factories. Since 2019, Philippe has led the QMS product line, where he took the QMS Next Generation program lead role in 2021. Since then, Sanofi has successfully deployed Veeva Vault Quality (QualityDocs and QMS) in the consumer healthcare and biopharma businesses.

Graham has spent his entire career working in the life sciences in the quality space for companies including Pfizer, J&J, Merck, Baxter, Boston Scientific and now at Veeva Systems. As General Manager with LearnGxP, he is helping companies deliver engaging online compliance and regulatory training to ensure workforces remain focussed on product quality and customer safety.

Iain is a Senior Learning, Quality Management and GCP professional with 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
Iain has spent 17 years in training, quality and process roles for global CROs before moving to Veeva to take up the Director of Training Strategy Europe position.
Before specialising in Learning & Quality Management, he worked as a Clinical Research Scientist, CRA, Clinical Project Manager and Clinical Team Manager.

Jason is an industry veteran with over two decades of multifaceted roles within pharmaceutical quality control. Through leading multiple global LIMS programs, building lab informatics support services, and owning lab platforms, Jason brings a honed perspective to leading the market strategy for Veeva Vault LIMS.

Joby George leads the product management team for the Training applications, Vault Training and Study Training. Before joining Veeva, Joby worked in the life sciences technology space delivering regulatory and compliance solutions for the life sciences market.

Manaphan joined Veeva in October 2016 and has held product leadership roles in Commercial Content and Asia. He is currently the Senior Director of Product Management for Vault QMS.

Manaphan is passionate about making products that customers love to use and building software solutions that simplify the complex. Before joining Veeva, he spent more than 15 years supporting, implementing, and building sales and marketing automation software across multiple verticals and geographies.

Manaphan received an MS in Computer Science from Boston University and a BBA in MIS from the University of Texas at Austin.

Peter is the director of product management for the Vault Validation Management application at Veeva Systems helping the life sciences industry transform their validation processes. Peter has worked in industries ranging from the power generation and the utility sectors to manufacturing of industrial inkjet systems and cloud QHSE software. Most of his career was spent in manufacturing in engineering, quality, and new product development, and has spent the last 8 years focused on product management, developing cloud QMS solutions. Peter has a degree in mechatronics engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management.

As Senior Director of Quality Strategy at Veeva, Robert is responsible for the Vault Quality Suite product strategy and customer engagement in Europe, specifically focusing on Vault QMS. Before joining Veeva, he spent over ten years helping Life Sciences organizations successfully deploy quality management systems worldwide.

Stephen joined Veeva in January 2022 and has been leading the QualityDocs and Station Manager products within the Quality Suite. Before joining Veeva, Stephen spent almost 15 years in the healthcare technology industry in a variety of technical roles helping transform healthcare via digitization. Most recently, he helped lead the product strategy and execution of a couple of B2B2C consumer health products. Stephen has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and a master’s degree in computational biosciences.