Building a Strong Foundation for Your Digital Trials

Venu Mallarapu is a digital innovation leader with over two decades of experience in business and IT advisory, strategic consulting, relationship, and delivery management to global life sciences organizations. As eClinical Solutions’ Vice President of Global Strategy and Operations, Venu is responsible for strategic development to meet global demand for the company’s platform and service offerings. He brings his expertise in collaboration and building teams to drive adoption, market expansion and innovation of the elluminate® Clinical Data Cloud and eClinical Clinical Data Services, ensuring current and future clients recognize value as industry needs evolve. Venu is a subject matter expert in Clinical, Regulatory, Quality and Safety & Pharmacovigilance functions, and has delivered Strategy & Transformation Advisory Consulting to top global Pharma, Biotech, Vaccine, and Medical Devices clients. He has spoken at various Life Sciences and Tech industry events and is a recognized thought leader in R&D with published articles.

In her role at Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Megan spearheads a team of implementation leads, clinical programmers, and medical coders to identify/deliver new value realization opportunities and manage ongoing operations. She is responsible for developing and executing on strategic plans and objectives for Jazz's centralized clinical data platform to enable data driven risk-based quality management, modernized clinical data review, operational oversight, and acquisition/analysis of novel clinical trial data sources. Megan previously worked for Genentech and Accenture, where she gained experience as a Clinical Study Systems and Digital Health Implementation Leader and Life Sciences Consulting Manager, respectively. Megan holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University.

Sean Connolly is the Senior Vice President & General Manager of Life Sciences Solutions at Medable. In this role, Sean leads product management and is responsible for maximizing clinical trial value creation for sponsors through the Medable platform capabilities and delivering streamlined trial operations and high-quality data.

Prior to joining Medable in 2022, Sean spent 7 years at AstraZeneca and most recently was the Global Head of IT – Digital health & Late Stage Drug Development. He has deep expertise in the pharmaceutical industry and across the drug development landscape.

Sean holds a Master of Science degree from George Washington University School of Business and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Information Systems.