Novotel London West, London UK
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Chris Brand is a senior associate at Captum Capital and PhD researcher in Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London, where his research focuses on the Bayesian modelling of behaviour. He additionally works as an associate lecturer at Birkbeck and holds an MSc in cognitive and decision sciences from University College London, an MA in philosophy from the University of York and a BSc in psychology and philosophy from the University of Keele. |
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| Michael Brand is the founding Director of Captum Capital Limited, an innovative consulting company which provides buisness development services to early stage life science companies. He is a frequent speaker on technology evaluation and valuation, Monte Carlo simulation and real options. Michael holds a PhD from Imperial College London, and an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management; he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry |  |
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Solenne Costard is a senior consultant at EpiX Analytics. As part of her consulting and research work, Solenne has performed risk analysis projects in a variety of industries worldwide. Solenne’s unique combination of analytical skills and field experience makes her a valuable asset to EpiX Analytics’ team. Her sound training allows her to apply risk analysis modeling and other analytical techniques to a broad range of projects. Her experience includes qualitative and quantitative risk assessments, modeling of disease introduction and spread in populations, multi-criteria decision analysis, and various statistical analysis methods. Solenne holds a DVM from Toulouse National Veterinary School and a PhD fro the Royal Veterinary College, London. | |
| Craig Ferri was promoted to Managing Director of Palisade Europe in 2005, having joined as sales and marketing director for the region in 2003. During that time the company has shown year on year growth. In addition to increasing brand awareness in EMEA and ensuring outstanding customer service, Craig’s helm at Palisade EMEA has seen the company continue to expand throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and more recently into India. Craig built up nine years’ experience of sales and marketing roles in niche technology sectors prior to working at Palisade. Key positions included global marketing director at software company Infomax Incorporated, and European marcomms manager at networking company Anixter. Craig holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business and Marketing, and an MBA. |  |
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Doug Oldfield joined Palisade in 2008 and is responsible for sales and business development in the Middle East. In his 6 years at Palisade, Doug has worked extensively with clients in lots of different industries, and has good experience of modelling business risk and opportunity. Prior to joining Palisade, Doug worked 8 years at an IT recruitment company in London, and also managed various retail shops around the UK, including "The Busiest Shop in the World" (according to the Guinness Book of Records). Doug holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics and Philosophy from the University of Warwick in the UK. | |
Sarah Sherry is a software consultant for Palisade Corporation. Sarah was previously a Senior Lecturer at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. She taught spreadsheet modeling techniques and programs in the DecisionTools Suite for over thirteen years, and was nominated for the Kelley School’s highest teaching award four times, and received it once. After graduating, many of her former students and teaching assistants seek her advice and counsel in their places of work (accounting firms, loan departments, manufacturing operations, hospitals, political campaigns, and so on), on difficulties ranging from issues with data integrity to troubles in spreadsheet modeling. |
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