Meet our Leadership

Our leadership guides our purpose to use the power of SaaS technology to help improve Life Sciences organizations and the experiences they provide for healthcare professionals and patients in their journey toward sustainable health outcomes.

Derek Evans, CEO Exeevo

Derek J. Evans

Chief Executive Officer

Derek J. Evans is the Chief Executive Officer of Exeevo. Derek joined Exeevo as Senior Vice President and Chief Growth Officer in October 2021. Prior to Exeevo, Derek was Senior Vice President, Commercial Organization of the Americas at Aris Global.

Before joining Aris Global, Derek was Senior Vice President Professional Services at Symphony Health, leading the company’s consulting and services practices. During his tenure at Symphony Health, he held several other pivotal leadership positions, including Vice President and Practice Lead, Health Data Services, which provided cloud-enabled data integration and management services to Life Sciences organizations.

Derek was also the co-founder of Software Associates International, Inc. (SAI), a company that offered innovative technology solutions focused on the Commercial Operations functions of Life Science corporations. SAI grew to over $22M in revenue and was subsequently acquired by Dendrite. Prior to launching SAI, Derek held several increasingly senior positions at Dendrite (Cegedim) in global markets, including Australia, the UK, Japan, and the US.

Derek holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree from Macquarie University.

Jack Lyons, Vice President

Jack Lyons

Senior Vice President, Head of Commercial

Jack Lyons is Senior Vice President, Head of Commercial for Exeevo. He is responsible for the global business development of enterprise accounts efforts. Jack has spent much of his career in the Life Sciences industry and has a profound depth of technology solution expertise and knowledge. Prior to Exeevo, Jack served as Vice President at Gartner, where he provided strategic information technology guidance to a vast range of CIOs, CTOs, and CFOs at Global Fortune 100 companies. Jack has held leadership positions at Alliance, IMS Health, Dendrite, EMC, and Cloudera. 

Jack holds an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a BS in Biology from Montclair State University.

Leon Kang

General Manager, China

Leon Kang is the General Manager of Exeevo Greater China. Leon has over 15 years of Life Science’s experience.

Before joining Exeevo, Leon worked for Accenture China where he helped double their Life Science’s commercial accounts. Prior to Accenture, he worked at Veeva China and was responsible for the sales team.  During that time, his team achieved the number one global ranking in sales growth.  Leon began his career at IBM China.

Leon holds an MBA from Tongji University and a Bachelor of Telecommunication Engineering from Shanghai University.

Thierry Durand AVP Exeevo

Thierry Durand

Senior Vice President, Customer Success

Thierry Durand is Senior Vice President, Customer Success for Exeevo. Thierry is known for his proactive corporate leadership that enables organizations to position themselves as preeminent thought leaders, surpass competitive offerings, and overcome market challenges before they occur. His ability to clearly present value to Tier I stakeholders, penetrate untapped global/regional markets, and transform internal operations into a performance-centered culture has established a career history of record accomplishments.

Prior to Exeevo, he was CEO and President of Pilgrim Quality Solutions where he was recruited to company by PE firm post-acquisition in 2011 to plan and implement major re-engineering of organization, including replacing and hiring key personnel, establishing overall and departmental budgets, processes / procedures / KPIs, improving company culture / employee satisfaction / company reputation, reorganizing / rebranding product offering.

Before Pilgrim he was Senior Vice President Global Sales and Business Development for Systech International where he was mandated to aggressively grow market share both directly and through channel partners in North America, EU, Middle East, and APAC which resulted in signing company’s first global contract with top 3 Pharmaceutical Company for ~$10M over 5 years.

Thierry holds an MBA, Marketing from the University of San Francisco, an MBA Management from the ISG Institut Supérieur de Gestion and a DESS, Informatics from the Université Lumière Lyon 2.

Ronnie Wankadia

Vice President – Engineering & Technology

Ronnie Wankadia heads our Engineering and Technology division. Ronnie is recognized for excellence in product development and delivery of CRM solutions for global life sciences companies. He has over 25 years of experience in leading national and global implementations. He has spearheaded healthcare digital transformation programs in developing countries by integrating payers and providers on high-tech, government-regulated digital platforms.

In his career at Dendrite International NJ (USA), Ronnie led the technology and professional services functions to implement CRM solutions for international pharma companies such as Sanofi, Aventis, J&J, and Bristol Myers Squibb. In the subsequent years at Cegedim Bangalore (now IQVIA), he led the pharma CRM, Master Data Management, and Compliance solutions delivery for Life Sciences organizations in North America, LATAM, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

At IQVIA, Ronnie directed business development for Pharma CRM across South Asia, including the business practice for healthcare digital transformation in the Middle East region for the IQVIA Payer-Provider and Government (PPG) business. As the head of the PPG technology business, Ronnie’s responsibilities spanned across project management and governance, product management and development, quality assurance, product and operations support, and client services.

Ronnie holds a Master of Science (MS) degree in Management from NJIT (USA) and Executive education from the Yale School of Management

 

Chris Wade, AVP Strategic Solutions Exeevo
Chris Wade
Associate Vice President, Strategic Solutions

Chris Wade is Associate Vice President, Strategic Solutions for Exeevo. Chris is responsible for shaping Exeevo’s long-term go-to-market commercial strategy. He is recognized in the life sciences industry as a forward-thinking leader in the customer experience and digital space.  Since joining Dendrite in 1997, Chris has worked with leading organizations like Veeva, IMS Health, PwC Consulting, and Doctors.net.uk in a range of business development, product management, and strategic roles.

Chris holds a B. Comm from Deakin University and a B. Arch from the University of Melbourne.

Brian McHale, AVP Strategy
Brian McHale
Associate Vice President, Strategy and Operations

Brian McHale is the Associate Vice President Strategy & Operations at Exeevo.  Brian has over 25 years of industry experience.  During his tenure he has led the Training Team, the Customer Success Organization, and Alliances and Partnerships.

Prior to joining Exeevo, Brian spent 14 years at Sanofi where he held Sales, Sales Leadership, and Sales Operations positions.  In addition, he worked at Pfizer for six years in North American and Global Multi Channel Marketing roles.

Brian holds a BS in Marketing from the University of Maryland, College Park, an MBA from the University of Baltimore, and an MS in Digital Marketing from New York University.

Ludovic Petit
Associate Vice President, Product Success

Ludovic Petit is the Associate Vice President, Product Success. He is responsible for driving our enterprise solution SaaS innovations.

Prior to Exeevo, Ludovic held senior positions at Symphony Health, where he worked across Product Management, Business Consulting, Innovation, and Enterprise Architecture. During his tenure at Symphony Health, Ludovic was instrumental in designing Commercial and Clinical platforms and solutions for the pharmaceutical industry.

Before Symphony Health, Ludovic spent over 15 years at CegedimDendrite (now IQVIA). He supported the company’s global expansion in EMEA and LATAM. He also played a key role in developing CRM and business intelligence activities in the United States, Canada, and Latin America.

Ludovic began his career as a System and Network Engineer at Electronic Data Systems (EDS). Ludovic holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Paris Descartes (University Paris V) and a Master of Computer Science degree from Paris Diderot (University Paris VII).

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