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FRACTIONAL CIO

Life Sciences
IT Advisory

Smarter IT Solutions for Success and Business Growth. I streamline the chaos, leveraging proven playbooks to enable IT by prioritizing and building your key components with phase-specific expertise for precise, timely, and budget-conscious execution.

Technology, AI, and Digital are the Cornerstones of Modern Business Growth

I am witnessing a world of complexity. Emerging biotech companies face significant challenges in leveraging IT, AI, and digital engagement to build scalable and efficient Medical Affairs and Commercial organizations for successful U.S. launches. I’ve seen this firsthand—and I’ve been there, navigating these waters multiple times.

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The guidance you need to succeed

Focusing on maximizing results and rapid time to market 

Launch & Commercial Excellence

Enable IT and technologies, empowering companies to successfully launch products and establish robust brand success

Program Management

Our program management offering ensures IT projects and technology deployments have positive outcomes through project and portfolio mgmt., risk mgmt, multi-workstream coordination, and change mgmt.

Achieve More with Less

Leveraging decades of life science expertise, our data and analytics services provide rapid, relevant, and trustworthy AI-driven insights for impactful decision-making

Technology Enablement

Implementing technologies and enabling marketing and digital engagement, Field Force operations, patient engagement, market access, medical affairs, and all back-office operations

Digital Transformation

Boost operations via strategic planning, analytics, and tech integration. Promote customer and patient engagement, cloud adoption, and data-driven decision-making for optimal outcomes.

IT Strategy and Advisory

Leveraging decades of life science expertise, our data and analytics services provide rapid, relevant, and trustworthy AI-driven insights for impactful decision-making

Data & Analytics / AI

Leveraging decades of life science expertise, our data and analytics services provide rapid, relevant, and trustworthy AI-driven insights for impactful decision-making

Strategic Coaching

Leveraging decades of life science expertise, our data and analytics services provide rapid, relevant, and trustworthy AI-driven insights for impactful decision-making

Our Services

Fractional CIO

Gain the expertise of a proven CIO at the cost of an affordable IT lead, delivering strategic guidance and technology readiness for business success

​Expertise, Skills, and Experience

ENABLING IT FOR BUSINESS GROWTH

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  • Life Sciences IT (Pre-commercial, Emerging to Large, US, and Global)

  • Expertise in all Life Sciences business processes (Branded, Specialty, Generic, OCT, Medical Aesthetic, Cash, Devices, …)

  • Enabled IT for more than 100 Product Launches Globally 

  • Led 50+ M&As and divestitures, driving harmonized business processes, organizations & solutions

  • Delivered over a hundred life sciences commercial IT engagements

  • Experience with IT Strategy and Execution, Transformation leadership, Driving bottom-line performance and Business Value

  • Expertise in technology go-to-market for commercial platforms (CRM, BI, Analytics, AI, Digital Marketing, omnichannel, …)

  • Expertise in enterprise technologies and services (ERP, QMS, serialization, contract management, compliance, Sox, security, audit, etc.)

  • Knowledge in working with business & technology services, data, and software vendors across the Life Sciences industry

CASE STUDY

Global Oncology Biotech

Challenge

  • US sales expansion of very rare orphan drugs with new product launches to international markets

  • New product launch of breast cancer with NDA priority review and PDUFA in Qtr1 2023

  • New multiple myeloma cancer drug launch starting in Qtr3 2022 and licensed for international markets

  • Company has a very limited IT strategy nor the required portfolio of Commercial solutions to enable and support the launches and global expansion

  • The company requires new and expanded go-to-market organizations in US and International markets

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Solution

  • Assigned resource to perform the Associate VP, Global Commercial Operations & Analytics role to develop organization & business plans to support global commercial organization and multi-year product launches

  • Developed Multi-Year IT Strategy and Roadmap

  • Implemented Program Management Offices (PMO) to support Product Launch and Technology Solutions

  • Executed Data Strategy, data acquisition and implementation of Informatics & Analytics solutions

  • Implementation of Veeva CRM, Vault & Salesforce Marketing Cloud platforms to support global expansion

  • Planning and implementation of Data privacy processes and solutions

Testimonials

"We needed to upgrade substantially our IT infrastructure to support our first product launch but it was a challenge to find a seasoned permanent CIO.
 
As our fractional CIO, Tailwinds Advisory Group, engaged with our business leaders, designed our IT solutions and budget, managed sourcing, and drove IT readiness for a very successful product launch.
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In 9 months, we were fully operational and on budget after deploying a flexible and scalable IT organization and zero footprint cloud-based IT infrastructure solution"

Marco Tagietti
CEO of SCYNEXIS

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