Biographies

Beth Everett, Ph.D.

Beth's expertise is improving business outcomes through technologies (scientific and information) and information engineering with high value to cost ratios. Her experience includes a Ph.D. in Chemistry, 19 years in the Biotech and Pharma Industry and 14 years delivering business transformation through application of information, technologies and processes. Enabling women and children to help themselves through various non-profit organizations (Habitat for Humanity, Birthcare, Medical Missions for Children) and personal charity is her life's passion. Beth is active in industry organizations, serving on the Boards of Life Sciences IT Global Institute and Healthcare Businesswomen's Association and as a member of the Society for Information Management.

Beth's career is focused on facilitating innovation and advancement in the healthcare industry through the application of information and automation technologies. Beth is dedicated to creating pathways for people to realize personal potentials and to creating new business possibilities. Her approach is to balance strategic transformation with operational excellence by merging proven project and portfolio management methodology, process improvement techniques and systems engineering methodology with an innovative culture.

Beth is currently AVP with SAIC in Business Consulting and Technology Services. She joined SAIC from ImpactRx where she served at Sr. VP & CIO responsible for technology strategy, product development, infrastructure, software development, QA/QC and client deliverable production. ImpactRx's products provide the Pharmaceutical industry with real time, longitudinal promotion-response insights.

During her career Beth served as CIO for Organon USA and prior to that as Head of New Jersey Research IT and Global Head of Information Integration for Novartis. At Novartis, Beth also directed the web portal strategy for Commercial Marketing and Sales. Previously she spent 10 years at SmithKline Beecham R&D where she created and realized new business opportunities based on advanced information technologies (including intelligent agents, multi-tier distributed architectures, web services, personalized access control, privacy and security). Beth also led e-Business technologies strategy and implementation for SmithKline Beecham R&D.

Beth's career started at Amgen developing the one of the first computer programs for the new (in 1985) automated protein sequencing instruments. Her experience includes protein structure-function analysis of the EcoR1 DNA Methylase at UC Santa Barbara (Ph.D. Thesis) using emerging analytical technologies (e.g. Mass Spectrometry, Fluorimetry, Molecular Modeling, Protein analysis and related computing technologies). Subsequently, Beth innovated analytical tools for peptide synthesis at Diagnostic Products Inc.,transferred assay technology into production at Centocor Inc., and led laboratory automation at SmithKline Beecham

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