Etzard Stolte | Global Head Of Knowledge Management Ptd
Roche

Etzard leads the global Information / Knowledge Management effort in Pharma Manufacturing for F. Hoffmann-La Roche, with a focus on processes and tools for effective knowledge utilisation. All capabilities are driven by AI (NLP/LLM) methods to improve quality of insight and efficiency of knowledge transfers, and are used by more than 20k colleagues in Roche. Etzard has worked at the interface of the Life- and Computer-Sciences for more than 20 years, in technical, managerial as well as strategic roles. Before joining Roche, Etzard worked as CIO at the Jackson Lab (a US based genomics research institutes), and was CTO for the Life Sciences at Hewlett Packard (a large technology vendor). Etzard has earned academic degrees in Biology, Bio-Informatics and Informatics, with a PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich on "A Scalable Architecture for Scientific Databases”.