Category: Lead Associates

Mike Florence has over 20 years’ experience in Pharmaceutical and Chemical industries delivering step change improvements and projects across manufacturing, supply chain, Research and Development and marketing companies. Mike is a winner of the European strategic risk award for building risk and lean into portfolio management and a sustainable business cycle. Previous roles include Global Project Manager accountable for leading cross functional teams to deliver large and complex portfolio of projects to decision points on time and budget. He is a full member of the Association of Project Management and the Institute of Risk Management. Mike gained a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, MBA from the Open University and is a registered practitioner of Prince2 and Management of Successful Programmes....

John has over 30 years of experience in drug discovery and development. He started his career in the cardiovascular biology research group at Pfizer before moving to drug development as a project manager. He has supported and led candidates across many therapeutic areas and at all stages of development. He spent 10 years as a Portfolio Director – initially for projects in early development and then for the pain, GI, GU and respiratory therapeutic areas. In that time he was instrumental in the development of therapeutic area strategies that spanned the research, development and commercial areas. He also led and contributed to a number of global initiatives that designed and implemented project management, knowledge management, risk and resource and finance management processes and systems for Pfizer globally and managed a global organisation focused on project management excellence, operations and development. John left Pfizer in 2009 and began a new career in Project, Programme & Portfolio Management consultancy and has worked with a...

Chris has had a long standing scientific leadership career in the pharmaceutical industry where she has led teams conducting early research in to small molecule and antibody therapeutics. Through this, and her subsequent transition in to more operational roles within pharma and the NHS, she has developed experience in process optimization, project and portfolio management and change leadership, as well as individual and team effectiveness. Chris has a broad understanding of drug discovery at both a strategic and operational level. She has worked at Board level, as Chair, Trustee or Advisor and her operational  specialisms are in assay development and screening processes, team interfaces and dynamics, individual and team effectiveness and culture change. Chris has supported spin outs, Biotechs and mid- to large size pharma to deliver culture change projects; optimise compound management, data integrity and screening practices,  support organizational design and recruitment; the design and delivery of bespoke workshops to facilitate team effectiveness, strategic planning and objective setting and provision of...

John began his career as an immunology scientist in GSK. He moved after some years to a new career in human resources as a trainer, team coach and eventually a learning and development Business Partner. He left employment to become a consultant offering organization development and team building services, personal skills training courses and doing instructional design and coordination. John’s principal expertise is in helping people to collaborate across complex structures. Developing cross-functional leadership and helping to build dynamic, engaged teams. Also to encourage productive relationships across organization partnerships and alliances. In addition John is an expert in digital learning and consults in the use of technologies in L&D. John has helped to transform several medium sized pharma / services companies’ project systems; helped build outsourcing culture and systems. John co-leads Phetairos’ Life Science Leadership practice. https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnfaulkes/...