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Praveen joined ArisGlobal in October 2017 as VP, Finance and Legal. In this capacity, Praveen is responsible for controllership, financial planning and analysis, taxation, treasury, procurement and assurance. He is also responsible for Legal and Commercial Operations. Prior to joining ArisGlobal, Praveen was the Director of Finance at Bioclinica. Praveen was also with Wipro Technologies for 15 years in various roles within the finance function, including business finance and controllership. Praveen holds a degree in cost and management accounting and a CPA from American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Prior to ArisGlobal, David was a Director at Synowledge for over 7 years and played an integral role in Synowledge’s growth leading up to their acquisition by Bioclinica in 2015. He held various key positions across Delivery, Client Relations and Operations to ensure all projects were delivered successfully and met Regulatory, Quality and Client requirements. David has managed teams across the US, South America, EU and India and established processes across departments as the company grew from less than 10 employees to over 1,000 employees globally. Following Bioclinica’s acquisition of Synowledge, David became the Director, US Client Services where he managed all US based BPO and IT projects for the Drug Safety and Regulatory Solutions Group based in the US.

Aman heads Global Pharmacovigilance and Global Client Partners organization at ArisGlobal. In his role as Head of Global Pharmacovigilance, Aman is responsible for product strategy planning and execution for ArisGlobal’s Safety Business Unit. He also oversees ArisGlobal’s cognitive automation strategy. In his career, Aman has managed end-end Pharmacovigilance operations and business strategy for various global organizations. Prior to joining ArisGlobal, he managed a large global Pharmacovigilance operations group for case management (~1 million ICSRs/year), aggregate reporting and signaling services. He has also worked at Novartis, thereby bringing both pharmaceutical as well as services perspective into the product strategy.

Aman also manages the Global Client Partner Organization, and is responsible for commercial as well as account management strategy for ArisGlobal’s existing customers globally. His responsibilities, uniquely positions Aman to bring customer/commercial insights to the areas of product management, roadmap planning, and release management.

Sai is responsible for overseeing all engineering and global safety customer support practices for ArisGlobal. In this capacity, he works closely with internal product management and process organization teams to design innovative, highly scalable and high performing Cloud-ready applications. Prior to ArisGlobal, Sai worked for Aptean (formerly Consona Inc.) as VP of Engineering. During his tenure, Sai also managed all of Aptean’s India Operations. Holding Leadership responsibilities for more than 15 years in Software Engineering, Sai completed the Engineering prior to many Certifications with Post Graduation Diploma from Annamalai University, India in 1985.

Vitthal heads ArisGlobal’s clinical business unit. In that capacity, he is responsible for the unit’s strategy, vision, product management and overall success. Vitthal has more than 18 years of experience in the information technology industry, with a primary focus on life sciences. Prior to joining ArisGlobal, Vitthal has worked with leading software companies, where he was responsible for product architecture, product management, development and successful implementation of many large scale projects with hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies. Vitthal holds bachelor degree in computers and mathematics including several certifications.

Katsuhiko is the Regional Director for ArisGlobal’s Japanese office, where he manage clients from Japan, China and Korea. Previous to ArisGlobal, Katsuhiko was Japanese President of WorldOne K.K., a medical market research company. Katsuhiko also worked for Phase Forward Japan K.K. in 2000 as Sales Director, and promoted to Japanese President in 2006. Katsuhiko started his career as MR for Boehringer Ingelheim Japan, Inc., Marketing for GlaxoSmithKline K.K., and was the founder of Luminary Medical K.K. Katsuhiko graduated from the faculty of law at Doshisha Univ. in Kyoto.

Sharad Prakash heads the LifeSphere Safety Analytics & Risk Management business unit at ArisGlobal, managing the company’s Signal Detection and Risk Management offerings. Previously, Sharad was the Founder/CEO at Medsight Solutions (later acquired by ArisGlobal), where he created Medsight Sapphire, a signaling and decision analytics platform for pharmacovigilance risk management. With more than 16 years of experience, Sharad has worked closely with numerous Pharmaceutical organizations and Regulatory agencies in key leadership roles, formulating strategic direction for life sciences solutions. Sharad holds a BE from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and an MBA from Stern School of Business, New York University.

Experienced Senior Director with a demonstrated history of working in the pharmaceuticals industry. Skilled in Data Science, Data Standards, System Management, Regulatory Information Management (RIM), IDMP, EVMPD, Complexity Theory, Life Sciences, Oncology, Project and Portfolio Management (Drug Project delivery and Improvement Project delivery), and strategy development (Drug, business and IT). Strong professional record with a MA focused in Organisational Change from University of Hertfordshire. Strong science focus with 15 years at cutting edge of pharmaceutical discovery.