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. An active customer base of 20k colleagues utilises a range of AI/NLP capabilities that improve knowledge flow and automate text based activities. High impact use-cases deliver document filing, activity sharing and automated insight generation. 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”.