Applied Insights Consulting
Experienced consulting and advisory services for the life sciences, specializing in the computational sciences (particularly ML/AI ) and digital infrastructure
I have 25+ years of experience in computational science and digital infrastructure in biotech and pharma. I was the founding Head of Computational Science at Moderna, creating capabilities in computational biology, computational chemistry, preclinical biostatistics, and ML/AI that were critical to the COVID vaccine effort. Subsequently I was Chief Data Officer at both LifeMine Therapeutics and Tessera Therapeutics, again founding ML/AI capabilities at both companies. At Tessera I led both computational science and digital systems, growing that team to over 50 individuals. My LinkedIn profile covers my background in detail .
I’ve seen what it takes to deliver value in this space multiple times over, and can bring that knowledge and experience to help with your challenges and goals.
How can we help?
Does your business have a strategic goal that can only be achieved through computational science, especially ML/AI?
Are you or your team struggling to deliver the desired impact to meet that goal?
After creating computational science functions (including ML/AI teams) at 3 different companies, I know what it takes to deliver impact.
It takes a lot more to deliver impact through computational science, especially ML/AI, than most realize.
Cloud resources, data management, software engineering, dev ops and ML ops … your ML/AI team may be blocked or slowed down dramatically because some or all of these enabling capabilities are not present or are under-resourced.
I can help identify challenges and propose stage appropriate and budget friendly solutions.
If you’re looking to create or grow a computational science team of any flavor, you need to recruit hte best candidates, devise a coherent organization structure, and mentor early and mid-career computational scientists.
If any of that isn’t in place, the consequences can be dire for retention, impact, and scaling.
I’ve built high performing functions from the ground up (at Moderna) and from <10 to >50 people in ~2 years (at Tessera).
My approach
I believe that advice must be practical to be useful. I won’t give you an impressive sounding but jargon-filled and ultimately empty set of proposals or promises.
My focus is on mapping out the existing situation, identifying gaps, and proposing a roadmap to get to the desired end state - in a phase appropriate and cost effective way.
Current and former clients
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