Epilepsy Society

Board Trustee

LifeArc

Accountable for setting LifeArc’s portfolio strategy in line with charitable objectives and delivering the portfolio through effective project leadership and management. Develop and lead the Translational Challenges as a core element of strategy; these programmes accelerate healthcare innovation by transforming promising life science ideas into life-changing medical breakthroughs for patients. They consider the entire patient pathway – from diagnosis through to treatment and lifestyle support in complex areas of healthcare need. LifeArc provides translational insight, spanning our core offerings of science, funding and advice and connect these collective strengths and resources with the expertise, capabilities and funding of other life sciences partners to catalyse the translation of innovation.

Chief Project and Portfolio Officer

Accountable for LifeArc’s Translational Challenges to accelerate healthcare innovation by transforming promising life science ideas into life-changing medical breakthroughs for patients.

Head of Translational Challenges

Accountable for ensuring effective governance, processes, systems and resource are applied across the entire company including our scientific research programmes, IT improvements, strategic and infrastructure, together with those utilising LifeArc’s offerings of advice and funds.
Developing and implementing strategy, translating LifeArc’s strategic ambitions into well-crafted and achievable operational plans, managing the portfolios, ensuring focus on the highest-level company priorities. Leading major change initiatives to support integration of emerging technologies and adapting operating model design for delivery and agility.

Head of Corporate and Portfolio Project Management

Accountable for building and maintaining productive collaborative relationships with major research partners. Managing the Tech Transfer of antibody technology platforms into LifeArc (transgenic mice, B cell sorting and screening, and in silico bioinformatics for candidate selection) ensuring all facilities, equipment and resources in place to optimise use for therapeutic discovery.

Consultant, Alliance Manager

KQ Labs

Accelerator programme run by the Francis Crick Institute, supporting innovative early-stage data-driven health start-ups to validate their ideas and put their exciting companies on the path to receive further investment.

Governance Board Member

PIPMG

The aim of PIPMG is to support development of the Project Management profession in the global pharmaceutical, biotech and associated industries by:
1. Encouraging recognition of the key role of project management in the industry
2. Enabling learning and sharing of best practices in portfolio, programme and project management
3. Providing Training, Coaching and Continual Professional Development
4. Providing a forum for communication and information exchange between members
5. Introduction, participation in and support of initiatives intended to improve the practice of project management internationally

Executive Committee Member

BTG plc

Global Head of Immuno-Oncology 
Accountable for the strategic direction and commercial success of our Immuno-Oncology platform, managing collaborative partnerships with global pharmaceutical companies, leading research institutions and societies. 
Lead a broad portfolio of pre-clinical and clinical research projects investigating the ability of our interventional oncology therapies (selective internal radiation, ablation solutions, embolics) to drive immune responses, both alone and in combination with immunotherapeutics (check point inhibitors, next generation immunotherapies).

VP Immuno-Oncology

Head of Global Project Management organisation  
Managed R&D governance process, annual portfolio review, and business analytics to track and improve performance, prioritising budget and resource on a risk-balanced pipeline of R&D projects that maximise business value.

VP Project Management

Head of Global Project Management organisation 
Line management of a global team (US, EU, APAC), set project management vision and strategy, ensuring effective project management resource, processes and systems applied across the business, with high standards for delivery.

Group Manager of Project Management

Clinical lead of multiple out-sourced clinical trials with small molecules, peptides, biologics and medical devices (spanning Phase I, II, III and IV).

Clinical Development Executive

Merck

Directed exploratory neuroscience research project teams, selecting multiple candidates for clinical development using pre-clinical models.

Research Manager

Directed learning and memory disorder program, heading GABA α5 inverse agonist pre-clinical research project for the treatment of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease.

Project Director

Headed an exploratory research team of technical personnel running electrophysiological assays for Neuroscience disorders (CHO cell lines, Xenopus oocytes, mouse brain slices) for structure-activity relationship assessment of novel small molecules and drug candidate prioritisation.

Team Leader

Conducted exploratory research, characterising the pharmacology of tachykinin receptors in the brain (nucleus tractus solitarius, dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus, amygdala, entorhinal cortex).

Senior Research Biologist

Karen Skinner is Chief Project & Portfolio Officer at the medical research organisation, LifeArc with accountability for their portfolio of Translational Challenges. These ambitious programmes focus primarily on Rare Disease (including ultra-rare diseases, MND and rare dementias, rare respiratory conditions and childhood cancer), and Global Health. In addition to her role at LifeArc, Karen is a Board Trustee of the Epilepsy Society and member of PIPMG Executive team. 

She has over 30 years of experience within the life sciences industry, having held numerous leadership roles in blue chip big pharma, specialty pharma, biotech and nonprofit organisations. 
She is passionate about biomedical science and technology, applying that knowledge to create innovative products that make a real difference for patients. She believes that collaboration is the key to accelerate the progress of scientific discoveries to create medical breakthroughs that transform the lives of those living with disease. 

Life Sciences | Director | Transformational Leader | Portfolio Management | Keynote Speaker

Karen Skinner

i-coach academy Limited

Executive Leadership Development Coaching 
Mentoring and coaching students undertaking Masters degrees. Teaching and supervising of students. Assessing and giving feedback on on-going basis and also as part of final academic assessments. Working with other faculty to improve programmes and experience for learning and development in coaching

Associate

Qualitas Consortium

Facilitating improvements programmes in NHS

Learning Partner

Johnson Matthey

A senior HR and L&D professional and experienced accredited coach working at the strategic level, influencing and driving forward global company wide change aligned to the Business and People Strategy. Specialising in Coaching, Talent and Leadership development.

Senior Talent, Learning & Development Lead, Global HR Centre of Expertise

Direxions Limited

Consultancy specialising in coaching, Learning and development, team or group facilitation. In particular 1:1 Coaching of Executives, Directors/entrepreneurs of small or medium sized innovative businesses and those aspiring to or required to, lead in a challenging organisational context; Coaching supervision of professionally trained and practicing coaches and students undertaking a professional coaching qualification; Action Learning Set Facilitation; Development of coaching within the wider context of organisational development; Team Development Programmes

Leadership and Development Coach, Facilitator and Consultant

Cranfield University

Learning and Development Consultant designing and delivering management and leadership programmes and coaching for University staff which included technical engineers and scientists.

L&D Consultant

Unilever

Team member of HR Specialist Team with Head of Coaching. Undertook and supported design for evaluation of executive coaches and the development of a coaching culture. Involved in coaching community of practices and vendor selection for developing leaders as coaches.

HR Expertise Team Member (Coaching)

A safety scientist leading a large team undertaking human volunteer and consumer studies and toxicologist evaluating product formulations for consumer safety  Conducted qualitative and quantitative consumer behavioural and sensory sciences research for beverages, frozen foods and ice cream categories.  Led training and development programmes for scientists.  Enjoying the training role, I undertook professional qualifications for people management and embarked on becoming a chartered member of the Institiute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)

Scientist and Research Manager, Training Manager.  L&D Consultant

I believe that quality conversations everyday are key to building great relationships at work and in life and unlocking potential in all of us.  I work to help and inspire individuals, teams and organisations to learn, grow and adapt applying both systems thinking and a coaching approach to what they want to achieve.

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