Veeva R&D Summit

Madrid | 4-5 June, 2025

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R&D and Quality Heroes: Leading Industry Progress

Each Summit, Veeva honors a few industry pioneers as “Veeva Heroes”. Over the past year, they have gone above and beyond to help move the industry forward. These innovators pushed boundaries and navigated change in their companies to improve processes and deliver outcomes.

2016

Launched in Europe

357

Global Veeva Heroes

158

Companies

66

European Commercial Veeva Heroes

Veeva Heroes 2025

Leaders Driving Change

Isabelle De Montazet

Alvotech

Director Regulatory Information Management

Olaf Ehses

Bayer

S&T Senior Project Manager

Lotte Smets

Julius Clinical

Director Data Management

Jeroen van Doorn

MSD

Business System Lead

Deanna Sanders

Novartis

Product/Platform Team Lead

Pia Mikkelsen

Novartis

Technology Product Director

Laura Prada Alonso

Recipharm

Corporate eQMS Program Manager

Efrat Sabag-Buchnik

Teva Pharmaceuticals

Sr Director, Patient Safety, PV and Global Medical Affairs, R&D IT

Rinat-Sara Lifshitz-Shovali

Teva Pharmaceuticals

Head of Systems and Innovation PV

Pernelle Quist

Zealand Pharma

Director of IT Business Projects and Applications

Boehringer Ingelheim

Led a digital transformation to unify data and processes across clinical, quality, and regulatory to accelerate the delivery of new treatments.

Martin Fleming

Boehringer Ingelheim

Head of QM Digitalization

Michael Haushalter

Boehringer Ingelheim

Senior Principal Capability Manager


Martin Heckenberger

Boehringer Ingelheim

Capability Owner – Data Collection

Martin Helling

Boehringer Ingelheim

OMP IT Program Manager

Birgit Huwer

Boehringer Ingelheim

Regulatory Affairs OMP Lead

Heroes Hall of Fame

Veeva has been celebrating R&D and Quality Heroes in Europe since 2016.
(Details correct at time of Hero award)

2024
John Reilly
Senior Director, Enterprise Products
GSK
Pieter Voermans
Head Clinical Data Management
Sobi
Giorgia Donati
Trial Master File Specialist
Alfasigma
Philippe Barrau
Digital QMS Program Leader
Sanofi
Aysegul Ozkose
Senior RA Database Manager
Nordic Pharma
Pilar Carrero
Vice President of R&D Process Optimization Office
BLEO Pharma
2023
Tony Lewis
Trial Operations Product Owner
GSK
Trevor Griffiths
Senior Director, Clinical Data Management
Syneos Health
Emma Forrest
Head of Clinical Operations and Project Management
Recordati
Cherith Wallace
Global Quality Systems Manager
Almac Clinical Services
Letizia Caccialupi
Head of Quality Management System CHC
Sanofi
Dr. Katalin Schmelter
Head of Regulatory Information & Content Management
Bayer
Pauline Pluviaud
Drug Safety Operations Manager
OM Pharma
2022
Alison Hughes
Head of Business Enablement
Simbec-Orion
Hannah Abdulai
Head of Drug Safety
BPL
John Cavanagh
Senior Director, Enterprise Products
GSK
Moritz Kloft
Associate Director, Team Lead and System Owner Veeva RIM
Merck KGaA
Leonie Christianson
Senior Director, Clinical Data Management Automation
GSK
2021
Victoria Stace
Director, Strategic Advice (QA)
AstraZeneca
Tanya Du Plessis
Chief Data Strategist and Solutions Officer
Bioforum
Astrid Beriaux
Director Clinical Documentation
GSK
Michael Buch Hansen
Project Director, Release Train Engineer
Novo Nordisk
Françoise Brunengo
Data Governance Manager, Global Regulatory Affairs
Pierre Fabre
2020
Verena Haupt
Business Lead (NIS System Manager)
Bayer AG
Stephen Nabarro
Head of Clinical Operations and Data Management
Cancer Research UK
Olivier Melis
NextGen eQMS, Technology Transformation Implementation Lead
UCB
Matthias Schablowski-Trautmann
Senior Business Analyst
Merck KGaA Darmstadt
Nuno Galante Valerio
R&D RDQ Quality Strategy Lead Digital Quality, Associate Director
Merck KGaA Darmstadt
Marion Pillwein
R&D Quality Risk Management Lead
Merck KGaA Darmstadt
Segren Bernard
Associate Director, Regulatory Information Systems
Norgine
Andres Nielsen
QA Quality Manager
Alvotech
2019
Marie Sciottz-Christensen
Senior EDMS System Manager
Genmab
Simone Mechler
Associate Director, Clinical & Quality Systems
Idorsia
Sune Mouritzen
QualityDocs Programme Project Director
Novo Nordisk
Timm Pauli
Head of Global Regulatory Informatics and Operations
PharmaLex
Adrian Cottrell
Vice President of Development Tech, R&D
GSK
Mika Välilä
Senior Director Digital Business Platforms
LEO Pharma
2018
Olivier Nuytten
Senior Validation Engineer
Ablynx
Laurence Mayeur
Head of IT Regulatory, QA and Project Portfolio Management
UCB
Maciej Lipowski
eTMF Business Specialist
AstraZeneca
Bernhard Warr
Head of Compliance & Regulated Information, Pharmaceutical Diagnostics R&D
GE Healthcare Life Sciences
Christian Bruun Sanders
Process & Systems Manager
Ferring
2017
Antonio Stassi
Application Manager
Recordati
Daniel Stephansen
Program Manager
LEO Pharma
Michel Van Nyvel
Documentation Systems Manager
UCB
Catherine Philippot
GxP Documentation Expert – Corporate Quality Services
UCB
Markus Kotterer
Business Solutions Manager
Roche
Patrick Van Hooijdonk
Associate Director R&D IT Technology Innovation and PMO
MSD Animal Health
2016
Paul Verhallen
Business Process Lead Quality
Aspen OSS
Orit Magyar
Head of Quality Systems & Processes
Coloplast
Luigi Visani
President and CEO
Exom Group
Michael Rasmussen
IT Director
Symphogen
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Madrid | Wednesday, 4 – Thursday, 5 June, 2025

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