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Most recently, Stuart was the Chief Information Officer U.S. Department of State. As Chief Information Officer, he established technology strategic direction and provided oversight for $ 2.4B of technology programs across the Department. During his tenure, the Department was able to provide all staff to cloud-based resources, supporting the move from less than 10% to 90+% telework to handle the COVID crisis. 

Stuart joined the Department of State from Johnson & Johnson where he was responsible for global Information Technology strategy and operations for an organization with 130,000 employees at over 170 overseas and domestic locations. At J&J, Stuart established a global Data Science capability, moved to Agile and Hybrid cloud for all functions and applications, and improved technology costs from 4th to 1st quartile benchmarks. 

With an established reputation for rapidly aligning technology innovation with global business needs, Mr. McGuigan brings over 33 year of industry background including experience as Senior Vice President and CIO of CVS Caremark, Senior Vice President and CIO of Liberty Mutual, and Senior Vice President of Information Services for Medco Health Solutions.

Stuart earned Master of Science and Master of Philosophy degrees in the Cognitive Science program at Yale University, and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Fairfield University. In 2018, Mr. McGuigan was inducted into www.CIO.com’s CIO Hall of Fame, and he is the recipient of the “Lifetime Contribution Award” from NASSCOM—India’s top not-for-profit IT organization, enabling India’s growth of its $154 billion dollar IT-Business Process Management (BPM) industry.

Stuart is currently a Senior Advisor for McKinsey & Co., serves on several boards, and advises healthcare and technology firms on strategy and transformation.

Clark Golestani has over 30+ years of experience in health, life sciences and technology, and is an active investor, advisor and board member with a key focus on healthcare and technology among other sectors. He currently serves as the managing director of C Sensei Group, LLC an advisory services firm.

He retired from Merck as the President, Emerging Businesses and Global CIO, with responsibilities for Merck’s portfolio of digital health services and solutions companies inclusive of the company’s venture and equity funds – each of which extensively leverages opportunities across the digital health ecosystem. Further, he led the company’s global Information Technology organization, strategy, and execution worldwide, spanning all lines of business.

Prior to this he was responsible for establishing and managing strategic client relationships as a principal with Oracle and he has also served on the board for directors for multiple organizations that were later acquired by Honeywell, OpenText, DocuSign and more.  

He has a degree in Management Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, and is a cofounder of Cross Road Technologies, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Antonio (Tony) Alvarez has over 40 years of experience in life science, health technology, and specialty chemicals. He serves as an advisor to several health tech companies. Tony is currently chief commercial officer at Ascensus Specialties, a specialty chemical company serving life science and electronic end markets.
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Previous to his current role, Tony led various regional and global businesses at Merck & Co., Inc.  He served as president of MSD KK, Merck's second largest subsidiary, for 7 years, then became president of the $ 11B global primary care business.  He was also responsible for the global commercial operations organization, charged with providing business insights to drive strategic choices for the pharmaceutical business  He has extensive commercial experience in key developed and emerging markets globally.

Tony has a degree in pharmacy from St. John's College of Pharmacy.

Manesh Naidu has 20+ years of experience in health and life sciences, with much of that experience in strategy, analytics and marketing. He currently serves as the Chief Marketing Officer of Althera Pharmaceuticals.

Previously, Manesh headed up Mallinckrodt's analytics, forecasting, commercial operations, and business intelligence functions. He also held a similar role at Ikaria, acquired by Mallinckrodt. He has previously worked in market analytics and commercial operations positions at Novartis and Pfizer. He has also had various roles in a biotechnology startup, in private equity, and in consulting at McKinsey & Co.

Manesh has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MS in Chemical Engineering from Oklahoma State University, and a BS and MSc in Chemical Engineering and Chemistry from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India, respectively.

Srivatsan has over 30 years of experience in growing businesses in the digital, data, AI, analytics, IT and operations management areas across the Healthcare and Life Sciences sector. Most recently, at IQVIA, he was responsible for driving growth and leading product development and operations of R&DS Technologies. He supported the world’s leading CRO with their digital transformation needs and built a successful clinical trial technology business that helped better patient, site, and sponsor engagement. Before that, he was the Chief Growth Officer at EXL Service. Before that, as a Venture Partner, he grew Cognizant’s foray into Digital & Platforms. He identified, incubated, and grew innovative digitally enabled ventures across the Healthcare & Life Sciences value chain. Srivatsan was recognized as one of the top 100 most inspiring people in the life sciences industry award by PharmaVOICE publication in 2010 and 2021.

Sean Lennon is a visionary leader who drives the transformation of companies from global, multi-billion-dollar organizations to startups and everything in between. As CIO for Medtronic, Sean led the development and execution of global transformation that helped Medtronic fully leverage its scale, improve customer and employee experiences, and harness the power of information and technology to drive global growth and differentiated outcomes. With more than 30 years of experience and a demonstrated capability to lead in a CIO role within healthcare, Sean has held senior leadership positions in several life sciences companies such as Actavis, Watson, Novartis, and Schering-Plough.  As SVP and global CIO at Allergan, he led the company’s technology transformation, enabling it to become one of the fastest-growing, most dynamic pharmaceutical companies in global healthcare. Sean has successfully directed activities for 80+ acquisitions and divestitures since 2010. His know-how enabled the business to rapidly integrate and scale, setting the stage for record growth. With an eye on aligning the company’s technology strategy and business strategy, Sean has spearheaded all aspects of technology vision, product development, and digital delivery of customer-oriented technology services, guiding both organizational startups to some of the largest in the industry. Sean has deep experience and proven capabilities in IT operations, digital transformation, data and security, and enterprise transformation. Sean has been recognized externally on numerous occasions in publications and awards.