E424 Michael Goedde, VP of Global Data Operations at ICON plc

Today's guest is Michael Goedde, VP of Global Data Operations at ICON plc in Maryland, USA. Founded in Dublin, Ireland in 1990, ICON offer a full range of consulting, clinical development and commercialization services from a global network of offices in 46 countries.  It is their mission has been to help their clients to accelerate the development of drugs and devices that save lives and improve quality of life.

ICON are a global provider of consulting, outsourced development and commercialization services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, government and public health organizations. They focus their innovation on the factors that are critical to their clients such as reducing time to market, reducing cost and increasing quality, and their global team of experts has extensive experience in a broad range of therapeutic areas.

In the episode, Michael will discuss:

An insight into the data operations team at ICON,

Projects they work on within clinical data and analytics,

Their approach to solving Data Science problems,

Why culture is number one priority in the company,

What excites him for the future at ICON, 

Growing the team & why work with ICON