Team

Ale Gicqueau  President & CEO

M.S. in Engineering, UC Davis & M.S. in Engineering, Ecole Centrale Paris

Ale Gicqueau founded Clinovo in 2003, with the vision of bringing medical innovations faster to market by running clinical trials more effectively by leveraging proven technologies. Over the last 8 years, Ale grew Clinovo organically from a small SAS consulting firm to a leading biometrics CRO in California. Ale is an entrepreneur at heart and he is a strong supporter of open source, web 2.0 technologies and global standards to accelerate clinical trials. Ale is conducting CDISC Official Trainings to share his expertise and promote CDISC standards in the industry.

Ale started his career at IBM. Prior to founding Clinovo, Ale worked in healthcare informatics in companies such as Axolotl (acquired by Ingenix) to develop advanced Clinical Networking solutions to meet the diverse and changing needs of physicians, hospitals, RHIOs and statewide HIEs to achieve interoperability across entire medical trading areas.

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Marc Desgrousilliers  Chief Technology Officer

B.E.D.S.M. in Electrical Engineering, Centre d'Instruction Navale, St. Mandrier, France

Marc Desgrousilliers joined Clinovo in 2010, bringing with him over 20 years experience in software and engineering, and a passion for developing the right system for each customer. His technical IT expertise includes developing patented technologies in storage and network management.

Marc has worked with both startups and large international companies throughout the Silicon Valley, including VERITAS where Marc ran a large worldwide engineering organization, and Microsoft where he led the development of most of the network management services on Windows. At Clinovo, Marc is responsible for evaluating emerging technologies suitable for the biotech industry, developing the corporate information technology, ensuring industry regulatory compliance and developing clinical systems and infrastructure for sponsors.

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Trisha Heredia  Senior Director of Staffing

B.A. from Sonoma State University

Trisha Heredia joined Clinovo in 2010, bringing more than 20 years experience in business development and recruiting within the Biotechnology, Medical Device and Pharmaceutical industry. 

Prior to Clinovo, Trisha worked for several well-known clinical staffing agencies, where she successfully extended business throughout the Bay Area.Trisha has developed business with several major biotech companies, including Genetech, Gilead, Onyx, BioMarin, Amgen and Abbott Vascular. Trisha won several national awards for her outstanding sales strategy and quality support. At Clinovo,Trisha will be in charge of generating revenues from Clinovo's innovative clinical data solutions & biometrics services. Trisha has a genuine passion for developing win-win partnerships and providing the right staffing resources for sponsors.

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Sophie McCallum  Senior Marketing & HR Manager

MBA from ESCP Europe, Paris

Sophie McCallum joined Clinovo in April 2010 as a Marketing & HR Manager. Prior to Clinovo, Sophie worked both in global marketing and corporate communication at BNP Paribas in market finance. She has experience in various consulting firms and has set up several entrepreneurial projects.

At Clinovo, Sophie's role is to elaborate and implement Clinovo's marketing and communication strategy. To that end, she leverages product marketing, online advertising, event planning and lead generation. She initiated the launch of our webinars series, our BioTalks industry events, has been very active in the community, and managed the development of CDISC Express and our Staffing Branch. Sophie is passionate about finding new, innovative ideas to help the company build a strong brand recognition in the industry.

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Jean Maupas  Director of operations

M.S. in Biomathematics, University of Paris XII

Jean has gathered over 20 years of work experience with the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry as Manager or Director, in the fields of Biometrics, SAS programming, Information Systems, Software Development Life Cycle and System Validation, Project Management and Quality Assurance, for phase I to IV studies of various therapeutic areas, including up to 35,500 subjects and 5,000 sites.

His previous positions include Manager, Biometrics at Biovail CRD, a Contract Research Organization for the pharmaceutical industry, Platform Director and CTO at GEREQ, a Montréal based McGill University affiliated project, and Director of ClinInfo SA, a french company Jean created, and where he developed a web based system for clinical research.

His main achievements include building compliant web based RDC systems, hosting and managing data for some of the first internet studies, automatic SDTM compliant package generation and paper to electronic change management. During his career, Jean built valuable knowledge in various technical areas such as web based technologies, laboratory data transfer, MedDRA / WHODRUG coding, CDISC standards, US 21CFR part 11 compliance, ISO 9001:200 certification, GAMP methodology as well as managerial and entrepreneurial skills.

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Tom Hickerson  Senior EDC Manager

M.S. in Computer Science, Tufts University and M.A, in Law and Diplomacy, the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

Tom Hickerson currently leads the development of ClinCapture as well as study build projects. ClinCapture is Clinovo's world-class open-source Electronic Data Capture (EDC) system. Tom has more than ten years experience on open-source technologies for EDC systems. He was one the first developer of OpenClinica, which is the open-source code base that makes up ClinCapture. He worked on all aspects of the software development life cycle within this project, from project planning to development, and from end-user to enterprise client support.

Prior to Clinovo, Tom also worked in various roles at Harvard University, and was one of 36 students to complete ArsDigita University in 2001, an open-source educational project designed to simulate a Computer Science degree curriculum from MIT.  His bachelor's degree was in Russian from UT-Austin, and included a year abroad at the Herzen Institute in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

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Nader Molavi  Medical Director

MD, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
MSc in Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Nader Molavi practiced Medicine in Iran before moving to Australia to study Biomedical Engineering. He then moved to the US where he worked in the high tech industry before working on research projects at Stanford University on Alzheimer's Disease in 2004.  He also worked with the Ob/Gyn department of Stanford University on a gestational diabetes study.

Nader has been working in different capacities in Medical and Clinical affairs at Abbott Laboratories, ArthroCare, and Clinovo  since 2005 and has a broad experience in all aspects of clinical trials, Investigator initiated-Sponsored Studies, EU Clinical Evaluations, and clinical risk management. He is an active member of IISRA (iisra.org) and is currently serving as the treasurer.

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Erika Melson  Head of Medical Writing

DVM, Tuskegee University School of Veterinary Medicine, Tuskegee Institute, AL
BS Animal Science & Biology Tuskegee University, Tuskegee Institute, AL

Erika started her career as a clinical research Veterinarian in a contract laboratory. She later became a consultant in R&D, consulting for such companies as Intuitive Surgical, Abgenix, Telik and Guidant before working at Abbott Vascular as a Pre-Clinical Scientist.

Erika has over 15 years of experience in the drug, medical device and combination product industry across various therapeutic areas. Her expertise ranges from study design to regulatory submission.

Erika joined Clinovo in 2010, and worked on the regulatory submission report for a drug eluting stent study, the clinical evaluation for the new generation of balloon catheter, the literature background sections of a PMA report and an IDE submission.

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