Pharma Cloud World Europe 2011 - Speaker list

Ph. D in Physical Chemistry from the University Ulm (Germany). I have been with the Information Technology department at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG since 1998. (Boehringer Ingelheim is an family owned research driven pharmaceutical company). More than...

After obtaining my Masters in Electrical Engineering from Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA and working as a hardware designer, I started developing software for 8 bit microcontrollers and never looked back. For over ten years, I have been developing software...

Omer Casher manages the IT infrastructure at Imanova, a startup company that until 2011 was the GSK Clinical Imaging Centre where he has been working since 2005. At Imanova, he manages the complete IT infrastructure, including a small data centre and a Siemens PACS/RIS ...

Ashley George started his career as a Chemist, but quickly found out that his practical skills would not carrier him through his career. Therefore he moved to do a Computational Chemistry PhD with Professor John Meurig Thomas and Professor Richard Catlow at the Royal...

-> Born 1978 in Berlin, married, 1 daughter, Bioinformatician by degree -> 2000 - 2005 BSc/MSc Bioinformatics -> 2005-2008 PhD Informatics, focus on Data Management and Integration -> 2008-2009 Biostatistician at BASF Plant Sciences -> Since 2009 Managing...

Phil Harrison is a chemist by background, now a specialist in Quality Management Systems and in the validation and compliance of Information Systems used in the Pharmaceutical Industry. He has more than 20 years of experience in large organisations operating in a GxP...

Jens Hohmann researched gas phase reaction dynamics at the Ruhr-University Bochum where he completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1996. He worked for Hoffmann La Roche’s pharma informatics group in Basel before he joined Bayer in 1999 as a project manager for the IT...

Tim is the Board of Management representative for Bioinformatics. He leads the Vertebrate Genome Analysis Project, which generates and presents core vertebrate genome annotation and maintains the reference genome sequences. Tim graduated with a BA in Biochemistry from...

Dr Jens Jensen received his PhD in maths from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He has done research in maths, quantum information theory, quantum cryptography, large scale data management, infrastructure management, and identity management, particularly PKI (notably ...

John Landy was named IntraLinks CTO in 2009 after initially serving as Vice President, Architecture and Research. Landy has 20+ years of experience leading architecture and technology teams with a focus in Software-as-a-Service solutions. Landy has presented on the...

Martin Leach is Chief Information Officer at the Broad Institute. In this role, he oversees and helps integrate the Institute’s multi-faceted computing and information technology-related endeavors. Martin comes to the Broad from Merck & Co., where he led IT for...

Prior to working in the Pharmaceutical Sector, Jeremy Martin, was Parallel Computing Advisor at the Oxford Supercomputing Centre, when he was also Lecturer in Computation at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has authored numerous...

He has been part of various informatics teams at Genentech, Inc. in the San Francisco area (US) designing and managing systems solutions for the R&D and infrastructure departments for over 15 years. His role and solutions have ranged from system...

Nick is CEO of Constellation, a spin out from the Rutherford Appleton Labs Oxfordshire supplying life science customers with “bioinformatics solutions on the cloud” solution. Using technologies developed at CERN and other world class academic institutions, the company ...

Keith Williams founded GxPi in 2000. Keith brings over 20 years of Biopharmaceutical experience, particularly in computer systems validation. He has worked in a manufacturing, laboratory and clinical environment extensively in Europe and the US. He has been actively...