IRT Transformation for Greater Supply Efficiency

Henk Dieteren, Clinical Trial Supply Consultant, Suvoda

As Clinical Supply Chain Solutions Consultant, Henk currently assists Suvoda in various areas of clinical trial supply management. Prior to Suvoda, he co-founded the clinical trial supplies department at Grünenthal GmbH and served as its Associate Director for 10 years. While at Grünenthal, he developed operational processes and championed risk management procedures to establish the company as a clear market leader in clinical supply chain. More recently, he served as Senior Investigational Medicinal Product Manager at BioNTech SE, where he streamlined data processing operations in the clinical supply chain for personalized oncology therapies. He is an innovative expert in the field of IRT, temperature excursion management and direct-to-patient logistics.

Amaury Jeandrain, Senior Director Solutions Engineering and Partnerships, N-Side

Within his 8 years in clinical trial supply, Amaury’s objective has been to revolutionize planning to make clinical supply chain more efficient, more ethical, less wasteful and more patient-centric. With an experience on hundreds of clinical trials and indications with multiple biopharmas, Amaury specialized in best practices for forecasting, clinical supply optimization, drug shortage management and IRT configuration. He is now leading the Solutions Engineering and Partnerships organization at N-SIDE.

Kamal Amin, Head of Supply Chain Management, Galderma

Kamal has over 15 years of experience in a mix of operational and technical roles leveraging end-to-end supply chain (clinical and commercial) and quality focus, including manufacturing, operations, procurement, general management and leadership; where he has gained expertise by practicing in corporate roles whilst strengthening cost management and operational efficiencies in the life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and devices industries.

He manages a global team of supply chain specialist; which is the most enjoyable part of his job, training the next generation of Clinical Supplies Experts. He tries and instills a proactive culture and ‘can-do’ attitude for all colleagues and to challenge them to volunteer new ideas resulting in increased operational efficiencies and simplicity. He truly believes a team is much more likely to get to an optimized solution than an individual’.

Kamal earned a BSc in Medicinal Chemistry and a PhD in Organic Chemistry from University of Dundee, UK, and an MBA from the American Management Association.