Advisory Board Archives - Flourish Research https://flourishresearch.com/department/advisory-board/ Tue, 03 Jun 2025 19:50:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://flourishresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cropped-Flourish-Favicon-512x512-1-32x32.png Advisory Board Archives - Flourish Research https://flourishresearch.com/department/advisory-board/ 32 32 Roger Smith https://flourishresearch.com/team/roger-smith/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:21:47 +0000 https://flourishresearch.com/?post_type=team&p=3071 Roger joined Signant Health as Chief Executive Officer in 2020. Since that time, he has led the company during a period of significant transformation and growth, establishing Signant as a leader in evidence generation solutions. Prior to Signant, Roger was at global CRO PPD, a part of ThermoFisher. During his time there, Roger founded and

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Roger joined Signant Health as Chief Executive Officer in 2020. Since that time, he has led the company during a period of significant transformation and growth, establishing Signant as a leader in evidence generation solutions.

Prior to Signant, Roger was at global CRO PPD, a part of ThermoFisher. During his time there, Roger founded and was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Accelerated Enrollment Solutions (AES) division, which offers biopharmaceutical sponsors and contract research organizations best-in-class clinical trial site conduct and patient access solutions. In his role, he was responsible for AES’s strategic direction and financial growth as its chief executive and played a pivotal role working closely with research sites and pharmaceutical organizations to solve patient recruitment challenges by utilizing digital technology and data science. Roger has also held a number of senior management positions for Acurian, Kozmo.com and Sony Corporation.

EDUCATION Boston University

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Linda Baddour https://flourishresearch.com/team/linda-baddour/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:08:29 +0000 https://flourishresearch.com/?post_type=team&p=3068 Ms. Baddour has over twenty years of experience in the Life Sciences industry. From June 2007 to October 2018, Ms. Baddour served as Executive Vice President and CFO of PRA Health Sciences (PRA). PRA is a global contract research organization and data science company serving the pharmaceutical and biotech industry for more than 40 years.

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Ms. Baddour has over twenty years of experience in the Life Sciences industry. From June 2007 to October 2018, Ms. Baddour served as Executive Vice President and CFO of PRA Health Sciences (PRA).
PRA is a global contract research organization and data science company serving the pharmaceutical and biotech industry for more than 40 years. PRA, formerly a Genstar portfolio company, grew from approximately 3,000 employees to over 17,000 during her tenure with the company.

In addition to her eleven years at PRA, Ms. Baddour worked at Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc. (PPD) from November 1995 to May 2007. She served as CFO at PPD from 2002 until her departure to join PRA. At PPD, she also managed the company’s M&A and information technology strategies. Before being named CFO at PPD, she was Treasurer and Chief Accounting Officer.

Ms. Baddour serves on Genstar’s Strategic Advisory Board and advises the firm in the area of healthcare. She is also currently serving on the board of directors of Flourish Research, Signant Health, Waters Corporation (Waters), and Cyroport.
Waters Is one of the world’s leading specialty measurement companies focused on improving human health and well-being through the application of advanced analytical science technologies. Cyroport provides full-scale supply chain management for the life science industry.

Ms. Baddour is also a certified public accountant.

EDUCATION
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, MBA
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, BS Accounting

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Keith Martino https://flourishresearch.com/team/keith-martino/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:07:25 +0000 https://flourishresearch.com/?post_type=team&p=3066 Mr. Martino has over twenty years of experience in pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical service industries. From 2020 to 2022, Mr. Martino served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Biopharma Services Group at Cardinal Health. These pharmaceutical services businesses consisted of a Regulatory Affairs consulting business, a Real World Evidence (RWE) and commercialization support

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Mr. Martino has over twenty years of experience in pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical service industries. From 2020 to 2022, Mr. Martino served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Biopharma Services Group at Cardinal Health. These pharmaceutical services businesses consisted of a Regulatory Affairs consulting business, a Real World Evidence (RWE) and commercialization support business, Sonexus (patient access HUB) and the Cardinal Health Third Party Logistics (3PL) business.

Prior to joining Cardinal, Mr. Martino was an Operating Partner at a private equity firm where he focused on pharmaceutical services, from 2017 to 2020. From 2015 to 2017 he was the Vice President, US Immunology for the institutional business at Baxalta through its acquisition by Shire PLC with responsibility for the plasma derived therapies portfolio. He also spent over ten years at Abbott/AbbVie where he served as General Manager, HUMIRA for the U.S. Institutional markets.

Mr. Martino currently serves on Genstar’s Strategic Advisory Board and advises the firm in the area of healthcare. He also serves as a Board Director on Flourish Research, Signant Health and AssistRx.

EDUCATION:

University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, MBA

Northwestern University, BA, Economics

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Robert E. Conway https://flourishresearch.com/team/robert-e-conway/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:04:11 +0000 https://flourishresearch.com/?post_type=team&p=3064 Robert E Conway served as the Chief Executive Officer of Array BioPharma (Nasdaq: ARRY) from 1999 to 2012. Array is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of targeted therapies to treat cancer and inflammatory diseases. Array was acquired by Pfizer in 2019. Prior to joining Array, Mr. Conway was the Chief

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Robert E Conway served as the Chief Executive Officer of Array BioPharma (Nasdaq: ARRY) from 1999 to 2012. Array is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of targeted therapies to treat cancer and inflammatory diseases. Array was acquired by Pfizer in 2019.

Prior to joining Array, Mr. Conway was the Chief Operating Officer of Hill Top Research, Inc., a clinical research services company, from 1996 to 1999. He also held various executive positions for Corning Inc. (NYSE: GLW) including Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Corning Hazleton, Inc. (Covance), a contract research organization, from 1979 to 1996.

Mr. Conway is a member of Genstar Capital’s Strategic Advisory Board focused on healthcare and serves on the board of directors of Signant Health and Flourish Research. He has served as Chairman of ARCA Biopharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: ABIO) a biopharmaceutical company developing genetically targeted therapies for cardiovascular diseases, Wall Family Enterprise and ClinOne, Inc. Mr. Conway has served on the board of directors of Alpine Inmmunosciences (Nasdaq: APLN) Nivalis Therapeutics, Inc., (Nasdaq: NVLS), eResearch Technology, Inc. (Clario) and PRA, Inc. (ICON).

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John W. Hubbard https://flourishresearch.com/team/john-w-hubbard/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 15:33:07 +0000 https://flourishresearch.com/?post_type=team&p=3059 John brings more than 35 years of leadership experience in the biopharmaceutical and CRO industries to help guide Flourish Research on its mission and strategy to enhance pharmaceutical development across their clinical trial site network and improve human health. John was President and CEO of Bioclinica, a leading provider of medical imaging, clinical technology and

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John brings more than 35 years of leadership experience in the biopharmaceutical and CRO industries to help guide Flourish Research on its mission and strategy to enhance pharmaceutical development across their clinical trial site network and improve human health.

John was President and CEO of Bioclinica, a leading provider of medical imaging, clinical technology and global clinical site network development services. Under his leadership, the company doubled in size, completed four acquisitions and expanded its customer base to more than 400 companies, including the top 100 bio-pharmaceutical companies and top ten CROs.

Prior to Bioclinica, he was Senior Vice President and Worldwide Head of Development Operations at Pfizer. He was responsible for global drug development of more than 500 clinical trials per year. He was a member of the Portfolio Strategy and Investment Committee, Co-Chairman of the Clinical and Medical Excellence Innovation Board, Co-Chairman of the early Development Committee, Chair of the Enterprise Precision Medicine Steering Committee, and member of the Worldwide Research & Development (R&D) Executive Leadership Team. John also served on the executive taskforce that redesigned Pfizer’s global R&D organization in 2011. Before joining Pfizer, he was Group President of ICON plc’s Global Clinical Research Division and also held executive positions at ICSL-Clinical Studies, Parexel International Corporation and Hoechst Marion Roussel (now Sanofi).

John was a founding member of the Board of Directors of TransCelerate Biopharma, Inc., is an Executive Committee Member Emeritus on the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI). He is a former board member of Agile Therapeutics, Science 37, Life Sciences Pennsylvania, and was former Chairman of the Board of the Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO). As part of his role as a Healthcare Strategic Advisory Board Member to Genstar Capital, John advises the firm on healthcare investments and serves as a board member on their portfolio companies (Flourish Research and Chairman of Signant Health). He is also on the Board of Advarra and Chairman of the Board of the Precision Medicine Group.

John has authored or co-authored 85 published abstracts and peer-reviewed articles in cardiovascular pharmacology, clinical pharmacology, and drug development. He has received numerous industry awards and was recognized by Pharma Voice as one of the 100 Most Inspirational People of 2016.

John received a Bachelor of Science in Experimental Psychology from the University of Santa Clara and a Doctorate in Cardiovascular Psychophysiology from the University of Tennessee. He was a National Institute of Health Postdoctoral Fellow in Cardiovascular and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center. He is a Board-Certified Diplomate in Applied Pharmacology and a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology.

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