Jennifer L. Northcott

Director, West Point Clinical Supplies Operations

Merck

An agile CPM certified project manager currently working within the clinical supply chain managing a team of project managers eager to optimize and strength the the supply chain and get medicine to patients more efficiently. Prior 13 years of pharmaceutical experience, 5 years' managing clinical trials and 8 years’ experience executing high level scientific engagement meetings for various therapeutic areas, orchestrating cross-functional presence at international and national congresses, and managing clinical and pre-clinical investigator initiated trials.

Mikaella Gorelik

Executive Director, Global Procurement

Bristol Myers Squibb

Mikaella Gorelik has 20+ years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry, spanning across procurement, supply chain, operations, and business development. She is the Executive Director, Strategic Sourcing & Procurement at BMS, a global biopharmaceutical company whose mission is to discover, develop and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases. Mikaella is responsible for strategic procurement of global direct materials for Biologics, Small Molecule and Cell Therapy, as well as Site Procurement Operations. She has extensive experience in developing supplier partnerships for mutual success of organizations. Mikaella lives in Bucks County, PA with her family. When Mikaella isn’t working hard at BMS, you’ll find her enjoying the outdoors with her family and friends.

Alain Bindels

Technology and Innovation Leader

Roche

Alain Bindels is an experienced Design Thinking facilitator, who leads an Innovation task force at Roche, supporting different business units to adopt innovation. He is interested in patient centric design of the healthcare industry, using new available technologies. He is applying the Design Thinking methodology to conduct workshops to test new ways of working and new technologies. Alain Bindels is part of the Precision Medicine Group Basel Area, a local Swiss based network. He is working for more than 7 years at Roche in different roles. As Project Manager he was part of the Roche-Genentech Merger Integration team to harmonize and streamline processes across the company. Thereafter he moved into a project leadership role to build up 2 medical writing groups in China and India. He is responsible for strategic outsourcing activities in the clinical development area, for Safety, Regulatory and the Medical compliance office.

Bridget Ferrari

Director,
Supply Sustainability

Takeda

Bridget has worked for Takeda Pharmaceuticals (and Shire prior to acquisition) since June 2017 in Ethical Sourcing & Supplier Risk Management. Bridget is currently leading the development of Scope 3 Reduction Strategy. She has extensive experience in developing Sustainable Supply Chain programs, with specific experience in Scope 3 and Human Rights. Bridget started her career in Strategic Sourcing, eventually working in a variety of industries, including biotech, renewable energy and high tech. She's managed direct and indirect goods and services. She was asked to start the US Sustainable Supply Chain program as an additional responsibility and found her true calling. Bridget is particularly passionate about pushing the idea that sustainability is a key business strategy and differentiator. It's not just the right thing to do, it's a strategic imperative.

David McCarthy

Senior Director/TL - Supply Assurance and Risk Management

Pfizer

David McCarty is Senior Director, Sourcing Operations & Enablement at Pfizer where he leads overall TPRM (third party risk management) for the enterprise, with particular focus on supply assurance and risk mitigation for direct materials. He joined Pfizer in 1998. David also has extensive experience in sourcing of direct materials, manufacturing supplies and services, logistics, and capital equipment. He has a proven track record of building and leading high performing teams and delivering innovative solutions as well as significant financial results. He has managed teams across four continents and builds strong relationships with senior company leaders, business partners, and suppliers. Prior to joining Pfizer, he worked at Colgate-Palmolive as well as Nabisco (Mondelēz) in technical roles. David holds a B.S. Chemical Engineering, B.A Business and MBA Finance from Rutgers University.