André Choulika
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Alan Arroyo
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• The newly elected Administrative Council of France Biotech (Paris, France)—the French association for life science entrepreneurs—has appointed André Choulika as the new Chairman, who will succeed the outgoing Chairman Philippe Pouletty who served four terms since 2001 and was not seeking reelection.
• An expansion to Nextrial's (San Ramon, CA) executive team has led to the promotion of Alan Arroyo, who will now serve the company as vice president of global sales and marketing.
Peg Connelly
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Kristie Lively
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• A promotion for Peg Connelly will make her the new vice president of clinical operations at Kforce (Tampa, FL), giving her the new task of providing strategic leadership and operational excellence for client alliances.
• As the recently appointed vice president of ACORN (Memphis, TN), Kristie Lively will oversee all aspects of the CRO's operations and services.
• Now the Senior Physician at Pfizer (New York, NY) since her appointment as Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President, Freda Lewis-Hall, MD, is responsible for enterprise-wide medical, patient safety, regulatory affairs, and quality assurance.
• Expanding its core marketing and business development teams, Health Decisions (Durham, NC) has appointed Ryan Hedspeth as director of marketing, Katie Hendrick as the marketing specialist, and Sean Spollen as e-marketing specialist. Mike Watson will become the director of business development for the East, while David Cerny will hold the same position in the West, Terri Sloan will be the contracts and proposals manager, and Samantha Salvaggio is a new business development associate.
• Omnicare (King of Prussia, PA) has made a series of executive appointments that includes the election of Jeffrey Stamps to senior vice president of pharmacy operations, Beth Kinerk as senior vice president of sales and customer development, and Jonathan Borman as vice president of strategic sourcing.
• Joining RSA (London, UK) as a senior consultant, Roger Anderson, PhD, will be responsible for expanding the executive search component in RSA's Medical Practice and working with the company's
global offices on international executive search assignments.
• The vice chairman and chief executive officer of PPD (Wilmington, NC), Fredric Eshelman, has been promoted by the board of directors to the newly created position of executive chairman of the board of directors.
• Mark Shapiro will bring more than 13 years of experience in all phases of preclinical and clinical research management to his new role
of director of clinical solutions for Clinipace (Morrisville, NC).
• A promotion from senior vice president of clinical operations to executive vice president of clinical development solutions
for inVentiv Clinical (Somerset, NJ) gives Scott Treiber, PhD, the new responsibility of leading the CRO services group and facilitating the interaction between clinical service
groups.
• With the appointment of Hal Ward as executive director of global pharmacovigilance, Premiere Research Group (Philadelphia, PA) will have him lead the global pharmacovigilance team to ensure the delivery of quality medical and safety
services.
• Joining Azopharma (Hollywood, FL) as the new chief financial officer, Daniel Cammarata will report directly to Phil Meeks, the company's chief executive officer, and will be responsible for overseeing all financial operations for the company and
its subsidiaries.
