Clinical Operations Consulting
Guiding Biotech's
Most Critical Steps.
I step in as fractional VP/head of Clinical Operations for startup biotechs heading into their first clinical trials. I help you build the operational strategy, choose and manage vendors, CROs, and get the program ready to face regulators and boards with real numbers. After fifteen-plus years on both sides of the table, nine of them in a global CRO, I know where first trials break and how to catch them before they do.
"Most first-in-human trials fail not from the science but from operational missteps that were entirely preventable."
The unspoken reality of a first clinical trial is the immense pressure it puts on founders to manage a complex process they haven't run before. It isn't something you share with your board, and it isn't something you need to explain to me. When we work together, you don't have to project absolute certainty. You can just think out loud. I take the complexity of clinical operations and turn it into a precise sequence: what requires attention today, what can wait, and what to drop entirely.
How I Work With You
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How I Work
There's no standard package here. What we do depends on what your biotech needs. Sometimes that's the whole operational picture: strategy, protocol design, CRO and FSP selection, vendor oversight, team building. Sometimes it's one hard problem, like how to design a first step to the first human study. We define the scope together at the start, and we adjust it when things change.
I work with a limited number of clients at any given time to ensure the depth of attention your biotech deserves.
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Limited SeatsThe Program
A structured program for biotech founders, CEOs, COOs and teams planning to run their first or maybe a second trial who intend to stay in control of their vendors, their timeline, and their budget.
Six weeks. Up to eight seats per cohort. Practical frameworks, real case studies, and direct access to expertise that typically costs ten times the course fee.
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Nine out of ten
clinical trials fail.
Here is where I help:
- Defining a clear, executable clinical operations strategy aligned with company goals
- Stress-testing protocol design for feasibility, patient access, and operational risk
- Building realistic timelines, budgets, and vendor strategies that hold under pressure
- Establishing fit-for-purpose operational frameworks without unnecessary complexity
- Supporting vendor selection, oversight, and performance management
- Identifying risks early and guiding course correction before they become costly
- Providing executive-level clarity through structured updates and recommendations
- Acting as a consistent strategic partner across study startup and execution
"The biotechs that succeed are not always the ones with the best science. They are the ones who built the right operational foundation before they ever enrolled a patient."
The program - The Trial Operating Plan
From Zero to Trial-Ready
in Six Weeks.
In six weeks you build a complete understanding of what you got yourself into when you decided to become a clinical-stage company. I will help you think through and build the first version of the operating plan for your own Phase 1 or 2 trial. One week at a time: assumptions and critical path, protocol feasibility, enrollment and sites, outsourcing, vendor oversight and your own team, then budget, risk, and reporting. You work on your own plan, not a case study I invented to make a point. You will not have all the answers yet. Nobody does at this stage, including the people who tell you they do. So the plan captures every open question as a named assumption that will be addressed when you have the info. You will know what is decided, what is pending, and what to watch for when the real planning starts.
The format: live weekly sessions with a small group of founders at the same stage as you, structured peer review of each other's plans, 1:1 time with me every week, and my WhatsApp for the full six weeks. Every section comes with templates I built over fifteen years of running trials from both sides of the table. You leave understanding the whole journey from protocol to data readout, with a plan that grows as your decisions get made, instead of a blank page and a CRO proposal you cannot judge. Up to eight seats per cohort, maybe ten, we'll see how we all get along. If your first trial is on the horizon, do yourself a solid and learn what it means to plan and run it.
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