Business and People Update June 2008

• Münster, Germany's blue inspection body, an audit service provider, added Dr. Wolfgang Heisig to its team of pharmaceutical inspectors, where he will serve as chief GMP auditor for active pharmaceutical ingredients.

Dr. Wolfgang Heisig

• Pamela Ring will oversee and manage e-meeting, medical education, and communication services for clients of MedPoint Communications (Evanston, IL) as the company's new vice president and senior director of account management. Before accepting a position with MedPoint, Ring served as senior business unit director for Discovery Chicago (Chicago, IL).

• Heather Balcarcel joined Excel Life Sciences (Chicago, IL) as director of marketing, having previously served as marketing manager for CenterWatch (Boston, MA).

Pamela Ring

• Norbert Clemens, MD, is CRS Andernach Group's (Andernach, Germany) new head of clinical development and will be based out of Mannheim, Germany.

• Having been executive chairman at Ricera Biosciences (Concord, OH) since 2006, R. Ian Lennox was recently appointed as the company's chairman of the board and chief executive officer.

• Parexel (Boston, MA) strengthened its team with a few new hires. Larry Ereshefsky and Malek Bajbouj, MD, both joined the company as vice presidents of clinical pharmacology consulting services. Ereshefsky will be based in Los Angeles, CA, while Bajbouj will work out of Berlin, Germany. Additionally, Dr. Imogene Grimes is the company's new vice president of data sciences strategic services, having served as vice president of statistics, data management, and informatics at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (Tarrytown, NY).

Heather Balcarcel

• Stephen Johnson was promoted from OmniComm Systems' (Fort Lauderdale, FL) executive vice president of business development and professional services to his new role as chief operating officer.

• Dr. Dimitri Goundis has accepted the position of project director of clinical development for Anavex Life Sciences, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to Anavex, Dr. Goundis was managing director at Speedel Experimenta (Basel, Switzerland).

• John Rogers will lead Octagon Research Solutions' (Wayne, PA) process consulting team as the director of process solutions, with nearly 30 years of life science and technology experience under his belt.

Dr. Norbert Clemens

• Having already served as one of the leaders of the Siebel Clinical group for Accenture's (New York, NY) Health and Life Sciences division, Parambir Singh recently joined BioPharm Systems (San Mateo, CA) as director of the Siebel Clinical Practice.