Riccardo Spezia – Chairman of the Board, Senior Statistician
Riccardo has worked in the Biostatistics field for over 25 years as a Freelancer as well as inside international pharmaceutical companies. He is the owner and a statistician at Stateam, a statistical consultancy company in Milan. Riccardo has been acting as a course instructor in “statistics for non statisticians” since 1991. He is a member of the Italian Society of Biometricians.
Paolo Morelli – President and CEO
Paolo has worked as a Statistician and Director of Biometrics in the pharmaceutical industry for over 10 years. He currently teaches 2nd degree level Biostatistics at the University of Bologna.
Frank Freischläger – Vice President and Head of Training and Development Unit
Frank has held prestigious roles in Biostatistics including: Vice President of Global Biostatistics & Programming at SIRO Group, Head of Biostatistics Europe for Omega Mediation Clinical Research Services, Senior Contract Biostatistician for Merck Serono International and Director of Biometrics Europe & India for Chiltern International. He is a member of the International Biometric Society.
Thomas Zwingers – Chief Operating Officer
Thomas has previously worked for Estimate, a CRO specializing in statistical services. He has been working in clinical trials since 1980 in statistical analysis and written statistical reports. He is a member of the International Biometrics Society and the International Society of Clinical Biostatisticians.
He recently gave a webinar on Adaptive Trial Design, the first in CROS NT’s series of webinars to be conducted this year.
External Board Members
The external Board members add a wealth of international expertise and are well-established methodologists.
Professor Angela Montanari (Italy) – Head of Faculty, Bologna University of Statistics
Angela has been Dean of the Faculty of Statistics and chaired the study program in Statistics and Social Research at Bologna University. She is currently a professor and Director of second level Master program in Biostatistics and on the teaching staff of the PhD program. Angela is also the Scientific Coordinator for CLADAG – Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society.
Professor Stephen Senn (UK) – Statistical Consultant and Professor of Statistics at University of Glasgow
Stephen has over 15 years of statistical consultancy experience in the pharmaceutical industry in the UK, mainland Europe and the U.S. He spent 8 years as a Statistician and Group Head in the pharmaceutical industry in Switzerland followed by 8 years as a Pharmaceutical and Health Statistics Professor in England. He is a Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistician Society. In 2001, he received the George C Challis award from the University of Florida for his contribution to biostatistics. He is a member of the Royal Statistical Society, Swiss Statistical Association and the American Statistical Association.
