Martin Leach's Email & Phone Number

💼 Past Experience

Martin Leach’s work experiences:Executive MBA candidate at MIT. Vice President IT for R&D, Global Quality, and Human Experience at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Martin Leach is currently a Independent Consultant at Leach Consulting from January 1993 to December 1997 (5 years).Independently held consulting company. Life sciences, information technology and research informatics consulting. MRL IT Executive Director, for Discovery & Pre-clinical Sciences IT (DPSIT) at Merck from November 2009 to April 2011 (1 year 6 months). I led research IT for discovery and pre-clinical sciences (DPS) that includes research IT support from target identifiation, validation, pre-clinical development and support of clinical supply development and delivery to trials. I led a team of over 130 IT professionals.One of many accomplishments we achieved as a team includes implementation of the World's largest electronic lab notebooks with over 4000 scientists using a single global platform. I very much enjoyed my time at Merck and worked with a terrific team and the world's leading scientists. Executive Director Basic Research & Biomarker IT at Merck from July 2007 to December 2009 (2 years 6 months). Lead information technology across basic research and biomarker projects at Merck. Volunteer/Project Leader at William J. Clinton Foundation from June 2007 to January 2008 (8 months). Volunteer and project leader of a project for the Urban Enrichment Initiative run by the Bill Clinton Foundation based in Harlem NY. Vice President of Informatics at CuraGen Corporation from July 1997 to October 2005 (8 years 4 months). Development of strategy, implementation, and management of operations of CuraGen's Informatics for Genomics, Proteomics, Pre-clinical, Clinical, and Regulatory processes. Consultant at CuraGen Corporation from July 1996 to July 1997 (1 year 1 month). consultant for designing structure and build out of informatics at CuraGen.CIO Advisory Council Member at Canaan Partners from March 2014 to February 2019 (5 years) in Palo Alto, CA. I am a member of the Canaan Partners CIO Advisory council that provides advice, guidance and a sounding board to Canaan Partners. Vice President, Head of Global Data Office at Biogen Idec from January 2015 to June 2015 (6 months) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ● Lead the information and data strategy for Biogen.● Lead the development and management of IT innovation across Biogen through innovation projects and relationships with Google and MIT Media Lab.● Lead the ‘Big Data’ strategy that is focused on extracting value from Biogen’s data assets.● Lead the Business Intelligence Strategy for Biogen to organize our operational reporting and provide predictive reporting capabilities.● Provide enterprise information search capabilities that enable access and reuse of over 800 million documents across the company.● Work closely with the Head of Digital Health Technologies to provide data solutions and analytics to support the company Digital Strategy for Health. Vice President R&D IT at Biogen Idec from January 2013 to January 2015 (2 years 1 month) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ● Lead the information technology strategy development

🎓 Education

Martin Leach has a B.Sc(Hons) from Cellular and Molecular Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University. He then proceeded to study at Kemnal Manor from 1982-1989 and then at CCL from 1992-1997. From 1997-2019, Martin Leach studied at Charles Darwin at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned his PhD in Molecular Pharmacology.

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

Martin Leach has a degree in Liberal Arts from MIT. He has been working in the technology industry for over 5 years and has a background in information technology and research informatics consulting. He has held a variety of executive managerial positions at technology companies, most recently being the executive director of an information technology consulting company. He also has experience as a project leader and administrator in research at technology companies. Martin Leach has worked with business executives, various government officials, and scientists in a number of different capacities. He has been a member of a number of advisory councils related to technology, and has also been a member of the board of directors of a number of companies.