ACDM Board

Robert King has over 29+ years of industry experience and for the last 17 years he’s had global leadership roles in Data Management/Statistics and Clinical Development support functions. Where he’s been key a driver in developing and implementing corporate strategic direction across clinical development and eClinical technologies as well as gathering significant experience in the FSP marketplace. He is presently an Executive Director at PPD accountable for the strategies and provision of client-specific customised solutions supporting clinical development. The first 10 years of Robert’s career were at Roche, Scherer DDS and Pfizer doing various roles with increasing responsibilities within the Data Management and Statistical Programming functions. Before joining Eisai in 2002 as the EMEA Head of Biostatistics and Data Management before becoming the Global Head of Data Management after 2 years. After 7 years at Eisai Robert moved to ICON where he managed ICON’s global internal consultancy group consulting on topics as diverse as risk-based monitoring, eTMF/CTMS technologies and Corporate SOP oversight, before joining PPD in 2012. Robert first started supporting the ACDM back-in 1993 on the Technical and Conference sub-committee, which included helping organise the ACDM’s first ever conference and he also joined the ACDM board in 2000. After 11 years of supporting the ACDM in 2004 he decided it was time to “retire” from the ACDM to spend a little more time with his young twins.

Sverre Bengtsson is a consultant in clinical trials and the digitalization of clinical research. He is also an active angel investor in life science companies. He sits at boards of several life science companies, investment funds, and industry associations. Finally, a teacher at several universities in data management, clinical trial design and associated topics.

Career:

From 2024, Sverre is a consultant in clinical trials at Digital Trial Consultants, especially the digitalization part.

From 2003 to 2024, he co-founded Pharma Consulting Group, which eventually became Viedoc Technologies. At Viedoc, Sverre focused on sales and marketing and on creating the global “buzz” around Viedoc. Viedoc is an eClinical technology company with offices globally and 150 employees. Viedoc went 100% eClinical from day one – very proud of this company.

Prior to Viedoc, from 1995 to 2003, Sverre worked as a data manager and then as managing director of a CRO, first in Sweden and later in Boston, USA. He started working with paper CRF’s but later he successfully developed and deployed an eCRF solution for remote data entry in global studies. The system was huge success and he learned a lot of things the hard way. But the data got in clean. And it went quick! Sverre was hooked to go electronic all the way in the future.

His first job in the industry, in the mid-1990s, was at a global first, ePRO company. The first version weighed 2 kg and had four buttons…the industry has made significant strides since then.

Jo started her career as a Data Manager in Searle back in the 1990’s, where she developed to a high level global data manager role, with particular expertise in new technologies and process improvement. This is also where her career in the ACDM began as part of the website sub-committee and gaining the MSC in Clinical Data Management that the ACDM set up in conjunction with Kingston University. After several mergers and acquisitions Jo left the pharmaceutical company side of the industry and started working with an Entrepreneur in a start-up CRO. Together they grew the company, developing a reputation for quality and expertise in Biometrics and Jo became the Managing Director of MDSL International after 5 years broadening her data management experience into strategic management. In 2013 CROS NT acquired MDSL International and Jo became the UK Country Manager, working on a number of special projects while maintaining her strategic management responsibilities, including Integration, Quality Management Systems, Continuous Improvement, Functional Service Provision, HR, Business Development. In 2019 Jo moved to her current position at Phastar as Director, Clinical Data Management for the global CRO. Jo joined the ACDM conference committee in 2010, and acted as chair from 2014 to 2019 and also joined the ACDM board in 2014 as Treasurer.

Nina Reyes (Manager, Clinical Data Management) is a certified nurse and graduated from the University of Bonn-Rhein-Sieg with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics. For the last 16 years she has continuously worked in the Clinical Data Management area of various CROs with adding some experiences and skills to her portfolio with working as a Manager in the Start Up Operations and Country Management for Germany, Switzerland and Austria within one of the top 5 CROs.

Nina has always been interested in innovation and a smooth and swift implementation of it into the day-to-day work of Data Management. She is thrilled about the opportunity to be part of the ACDM eDigital DMEG and hopes to get a lot of new insights and to bring, together with the other members of this strong group, eDigital a step forward.

Eva has more than 10 years experiences within Clinical Data Management. She is currently leading the global Data Management Department (including EDC development) at the midsize CRO Ergomed. She has oversight over 35 employees on 3 continents.
Before Eva was at a software company doing requirements engineering for an EDC and trial management software. She also has experiences within academics, economics, and taxes.

My connection to the world of clinical data management began when I was at university. My course was Computer Science at De Montfort University in Leicester, and the course involved a placement year in industry during the third year. I secured a placement working at Fisons Pharmaceuticals in Loughborough, working in the clinical data management department helping to implement a new system that they had recently acquired, called Clintrial. Having finished my degree I went back to work at Fisons before joining the company (BBN) who had created the Clintrial CDMS system. From there on I’ve worked in various suppliers of eClinical solutions. I’ve spent a lot of time working with EDC systems (Phase Forward/Oracle) and watching the industry move from paper to electronic data capture. Along the way though I’ve had the chance to work with all kinds of supporting systems, such as Pharmacovigilance, PV Signal Detection, Phase I Clinic Automation, Late Phase EDC, Statistical Computing Environments, Clinical Repositories/Warehouses, ePRO, CTMS, Regulatory Management and now Risk-based Quality Management at CluePoints.

I am an experienced data manager for various therapeutic areas with additional certifications in business data science, digital transformation and strategic management. My experience ranges from clinical data management to system lifecycle management and supplier management with a focus on clinical trials. In addition, I have several years of experience with digital and agile transformations, including organizational development, as a leader in various positions. I spent two years building and leading the digital innovation, systems and capabilities leadership team in medicine and in this role also drove the strategy for the One Medicine Platform. I am super passionate about data and technology, disruptive change and simplifying complexity.

I have close to 25 years of DM experience in various pharma companies and therapeutic areas starting in 1999 with Merck, and followed by Schering Plough, NPS, Eisai, Novartis, and Bayer Pharmaceuticals at present. My educational background is MSc in Biochemistry and Microbiology, and a BSc in Nursing. My DM expertise spans beyond knowledge of FDA, ICH, GCP/GCDMP principles, to industry-specific globally regulated clinical data requirements and trends, i.e. EHR@EDC, DCT, etc. I strive to apply this knowledge in a globally run, digital, data-driven environment and support the delivery of high-quality data outputs crucial for regulatory submissions and scientific publications. My passion is trouble shooting, coaching, and mentoring across a 360° spectrum, including DM, global Clinical Operations staff, Clinical Development peers, interns, CRO partners, and vendors and I bring extensive Clinical R&D experience, predominantly in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Cardiovascular, Gastrointestinal, and Cell & Gene Therapy.

As an experienced data manager leader I have worked across therapeutic area disciplines within both the pharmaceutical and CRO industries. I have over 14 years experience in Clinical Data Management and started my career in the late phase Data Management department at PAREXEL. I progressed into a Data Management operational leadership position where I had overall accountability, as an account lead, for the execution of the Data Management strategy on numerous complex Oncology studies.
I joined the Oncology team within the Data Monitoring and Management department at Pfizer in 2018 and am currently a Director, Senior Asset Lead supporting the development of a number of key, pivotal compounds. I am also business lead for Pfizer’s development and implementation of the Smart Data Query (SDQ) tool, an industry first leveraging AI/ML to hyper-accelerate complex data review and reconciliation activities. In addition I also supports a number of other innovation projects within Pfizer in the fields of AI/ML and RBDM.
I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Amelie is currently Associate Director CDM platform at BioNTech. Amelie is a Molecular biologist by training. Amelie’s career has involved leading Data Management and biometrics team across the world in CRO (IQVIA, PAREXEL, Bioskin, Labcorp, Cytel) and in Pharma ( Bayer, BioNTech). Amelie is passionate about knowledge-sharing and making her team grow. Amelie says that “Data Management is a job that keeps evolving and I am happy to be part of ACDM board to shape and lead the future of clinical data management”