Speakers

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Symyx thanks the following individuals for their contribution to Symposium 2010 Barcelona.

General Session Speakers
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Ashley George
Director of the Strategic IT portfolio for Discovery, GlaxoSmithKline

Ashley George started his career as a Chemist, but quickly found out that his practical skills would not carry him through his career. Thereafter he moved to do a Computational Chemistry PhD with Professor John Meurig Thomas and Professor Richard Catlow and the Royal Institution in the area of heavy petrochemicals industry. During his subsequent career, he has worked for Ciba Geigy, SmithKline Beecham, start up Biotech which reverse IPOed to become a PLC, then GlaxoWelcome and is now with GlaxoSmithkline as Director of the Strategic IT portfolio for Discovery.

Mckenzie_PaulPaul McKenzie
Global Head, Pharmaceutical Development & Manufacturing Sciences, Johnson & Johnson

Paul McKenzie, Ph.D. leads the Pharmaceutical Development & Manufacturing Sciences (PDMS) organization. PDMS is responsible for the development, clinical supply, marketed product support, and technical life-cycle management of chemical and biologic pharmaceutical products. He is also a member of both the Global Development Organization and GPSG Leadership Teams.

Paul has both R&D and supply chain experience working with both large and small molecules. Prior to this role, Paul led the BIO PD & MPS organization as Vice President, Biologics Pharmaceutical Development and Marketed Product Support. Paul came to Johnson & Johnson from Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), where he was Vice President and General Manager of the BMS large-scale cell culture facility in Massachusetts. Paul was previously Vice President, Technical Transfer Governance Committee, at BMS, and before that, Executive Director of Process Research & Development & Technology Transfer; and Director, Pilot Plant Operations, with BMS.

Jason Bronfeld PictureJason Bronfeld
Executive Director, Preclinical & Pharmaceutical Development Informatics, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Jason Bronfeld received his BS and MS in mechanical engineering with an emphasis on biomechanics from Rutgers University. He spent the first half of his career working for companies that produced software for computer-aided design, engineering and manufacturing. These included Prime Computer Corporation, Computervision Corporation, Structural Dynamics Research Corporation and Parametric Technologies Corporation. He has been granted two patents related to software algorithms and user-interaction paradigms. In 1998 he joined Bristol-Myers Squibb. His first five years were spent in Drug Discovery Informatics in various roles. He currently is the Executive Director of Preclinical & Pharmaceutical Development Informatics. In this role, he is responsible for the development, delivery and management of IM related business capabilities supporting the 12 primary functions within the Preclinical & Pharmaceutical Development organization.

Customer Case Study Speakers

  • Angela Chabot
    Scientist, Pharmaceutical Sciences – Technology Integration Group
    Pfizer Global Research and Development Inc.
  • Graham S. Clarke, Ph.D.
    Associate Director AR&D
    Bristol- Myers Squibb Business Services Limited
  • Ulf Fuchslueger, Ph.D.
    CEO
    Vialis AG
  • Elke Hofmann
    Group Head, Research IT
    Merck KGaA Darmstadt
  • John Leonard, Ph.D.
    Principal Scientist
    AstraZeneca Process R&D/Pharmaceutical & Analytical R & D
  • Ulrik Nicolai de Lichtenberg, MSc, Ph.D.
    Head of Discovery Informatics & Data Management
    LEO Pharma A/S
  • Adele Patterson, Ph.D.
    Principal Scientist
    Bristol-Myers Squibb Business Services Limited
  • Rory Quinn
    Analytical R&D
    Pfizer Ltd.
  • Guenter Stiegler, Ph.D.
    Project Coordinator
    BASF Societas Europaea
  • Stephan P. B. Taylor, Ph.D.
    Director – Project and Process Optimization Systems, Process Research and Development
    Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute
  • Craig Tulig, Ph.D.
    Associate Director R&D Systems
    Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company
  • Veit Ulshoefer, Ph.D.
    Head of Research IT
    Merck KGaA Darmstadt

Symyx Software Solutions Presenters

  • Francis Benett, Ph.D., Director Integration Strategy
  • Todd Clement, Ph.D. Senior Product Manager
  • Trevor Heritage, Ph.D., President
  • Russ Hillard, Ph.D., Senior Product Manager, Content
  • John McCarthy, VP Product Management and Strategy
  • Bennett Lass, Ph.D., Director, ELN Services
  • Ken Raiche, Ph.D., Director, Pilot Projects
  • Jess Sager, Senior Product Manager
  • Mary Beth Walsh, M.S., Senior Product Marketing Manager