Speakers

Jason Blessing

Chief Executive Officer, Model N

Jason previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Plex Systems from January 2013 to December 2017 and was a member of the company’s Board of Directors. Jason joined Plex from Oracle, where he was Senior Vice President of Talent Management Cloud Applications. He joined Oracle in 2012 through the acquisition of Taleo, a pioneer in cloud software where he held several executive positions between 2007 and 2012. Between 2010 and 2012, Jason served as Taleo’s Executive Vice President of Products and Technology, where he led the company’s product strategy, product management, engineering and cloud services. Prior to this, Jason founded Taleo’s small and medium-sized business (SMB) unit, where he had global responsibility for sales, marketing, product development and services. During his tenure, Taleo’s SMB products were a major contributor to the company’s growth, as the company became the undisputed market leader with more than 4,500 customers worldwide.

Previously, Jason held a variety of executive positions at PeopleSoft, Oracle and Price Waterhouse. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and is on the university’s Advisory Board for the School of Information.

Suresh Kannan

Chief Product Officer, Model N

Suresh joins Model N with over 25 years of combined experience in product development, product management and general management. He is an accomplished executive with deep engineering expertise but is also well rounded with experience managing professional services, customer support and sales. Suresh brings a unique depth of knowledge in the life sciences software space and is adept at managing product portfolios at varying levels of technical maturity.

Suresh began his career at IBM before his time at Oracle in progressive software development leadership roles. He then led Engineering and Product Management at DecisionView prior to its acquisition by IMS Health. As VP of Product Development at IMS Health, Suresh was responsible for a growing technology product set and built solutions around drug trial protocol, cost forecasting, pricing and optimization of the entire clinical development process while scaling his team to hundreds of employees globally. During this time, Suresh has led multiple acquisitions and played a key role in the merger of IMS and Quintiles. In 2017, Suresh moved into a GM role at the rebranded entity, IQVIA, where he created and led the Content Management Solutions business across product management, engineering, product marketing, professional services, sales and support.

Laura Selig

Chief People Officer, Model N

Laura is Chief People Officer and joined Model N in November 2018. Laura is responsible for all aspects of human resources, including talent attraction and retention, employee learning and development and culture initiatives to grow and enhance Model N’s reputation as a great place to work. She has 20+ years of HR experience across a variety of industries, including high tech and financial services. Prior to Model N, Laura led the people functions for high tech startups, including SnapLogic and Couchbase. She also spent a number of years in global HR leadership roles at Visa, Inc. Laura is passionate about building best-in-class company cultures and creating high-performing organizations where employees are empowered and motivated to do the best work of their careers. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Mark Anderson

Chief Services Officer, Model N

Mark Anderson is responsible for all global services, training and support functions ensuring customer success at Model N. He brings over 20 years of experience in services-related, leadership roles at enterprise software leaders, such as Vendavo, Sterling Commerce, Comergent and SAP. Most recently, Mr. Anderson ran the services function at Vendavo as its SVP, Global Solutions Delivery. Prior to that, he held key leadership positions in services and application solutions delivery at Sterling Commerce, Comergent and SAP America, where he focused, specifically, on the enterprise business needs for firms in discrete manufacturing industries.

Mr. Anderson received his MBA in Operations Management from University of Rochester and BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Nebraska.

Chris Lyon

Chief Revenue Officer, Model N

Chris joins Model N with over 25+ years of sales leadership and experience and has built his career within highly regarded enterprise software organizations. Chris has deep experience in developing best-in-class, innovative sales processes and programs and has a proven ability to drive significant change and revenue growth through his commitment to customers and passion for building high caliber sales teams. Most recently, Chris was Chief Revenue Officer at Total Expert, a high-growth, SaaS-based marketing platform focused on the financial services industry. Prior to Total Expert, he spent nine years at Workday in progressive positions of leadership and responsibility. While at Workday, Chris was notably selected to build and lead the company’s new healthcare vertical as Vice President, Healthcare for North America. Earlier in his career, Chris held a variety of positions at PolyServe, acquired by Hewlett Packard in 2007, and Peoplesoft, acquired by Oracle in 2004. Chris received his BA from the University of Minnesota.

Rehmann Rayani

Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Model N

Rehmann Rayani is Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer and joined Model N in 2018. Rehmann is responsible for leading Model N’s Corporate Strategy function as well as all aspects of the Marketing function across corporate & growth marketing, product marketing, and communications. Rehmann brings 18 years of experience in enterprise software and technology as a strategy and go-to-market leader. Prior to joining Model N, he spent over 4 years at Plex Systems in a variety of senior management roles including VP/GM of the Supply Chain Business Unit and VP of Corporate Strategy. Earlier in his career, Rehmann was a management consultant at Oliver Wyman and an investment associate at ValueAct Capital.

Rehmann holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a degree in finance and physics from McGill University.

Jeff Albright

Director Product Management, Model N

Associate Director, Center of Excellence

Omar Ali

Head of Payers, Verpora

Kristan Almquist

Principal Education Consultant, Model N

Kristan joined Model N in early 2016 and is a Principal Education Consultant and Trainer at Model N. Prior to her current role, she was Sr. Business Consultant. Kristan has vast experience in Pharma, Life Sciences and Medical Device industries and has worked directly with customers and strategic partners through all phases of the implementation lifecycle while providing a dependable link between business users, key stakeholders, strategic partners, and project management regarding software functionality throughout the development cycle. As a trainer in Ed Svcs, Kristan is the primary lead for Powered by FLEX training engagements for clients in both live settings and blended approaches for learning. In addition to being a hands-on trainer, she also creates and develops training curriculums and learning paths for customers who utilize our Learning Library.

Shawna Biggs

Educational Consultant, Model N

Shawna joined Model N in 2021 as an Associate Education Consultant among the Education Services team. She enjoys working on customer engagements through trainings and eLearning projects.

Kyle Forcier

Sr. Director Services Sales, Model N

Kyle Forcier is a Senior Director of Product Marketing for the Life Sciences vertical at Model N. For over 19 years (11+ years at Model N),Kyle has focused on delivering innovation, automation, and operational excellence to Life Sciences manufacturers. In his current role at Model N, he is responsible for driving Model N’s go to market strategy, product messaging, and bringing the voice of the customer to every strategic conversation. His areas of industry expertise include end-to-end contract execution, strategic pricing and incentives, gross-to-net reporting, distribution and channel management, and managing compliance. With 7+ years implementing Model N solutions at over 30 Life Sciences companies, he brings a unique perspective that combines a deep understanding of the Model N applications with customer-facing project work, and industry expertise. Kyle holds a BS in Finance from Bentley University and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts.

Brian Bohnenkamp

Partner, King & Spalding

Brian Bohnenkamp specializes in regulatory and compliance matters relating to drug, biotechnology and medical device companies. A partner in King & Spalding’s FDA and life sciences practice, Brian has extensive experience counseling manufacturers on fraud and abuse laws, industry codes of conduct, federal and state transparency laws and regulations, state and local gift bans, compliance program laws and sales representative licensing requirements, as well as government ethics restrictions. Brian provides counsel to companies on a variety of laws and regulations administered and enforced by FDA, OIG, DOJ, and CMS, as well as by state attorneys general, boards of pharmacy, departments of health, and similar administrative and enforcement authorities. He regularly assists manufacturers in designing and implementing comprehensive compliance programs, and conducts risk assessments, audits and other reviews of compliance programs and business activities/operations. Brian is recognized as a Next Generation Partner by Legal 500, an Up and Coming partner for Pharmaceutical/Medical Products Regulatory by Chambers USA and a Rising Star by Super Lawyers Washington.

Odalys Caprisecca

VP Managed Markets Finance, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation

Odalys is an innovative and results-oriented Strategic Executive with 30+ years of developing and implementing efficient, cost-effective and innovative business strategies strengthening company operations. She has a proven track record of designing and executing intuitive solutions that promote strategy development and process improvement across commercial, regulatory and financial business segments. Action-oriented Leader with the ability to implement change-management strategies necessary to optimizing available financial resources while maintaining comprehensive compliance and security across domestic and international regulatory bodies. Odalys is actively engaged with Federal and State policy reform. She is a noted leader in the industry promoting inclusion & diversity, development of corporate strategies for strengthening financial methodologies and business integration while achieving unilateral compliance.

Jenn Channel

Director Education & Ngage, Model N

Jenn Channel is a Director of Education focused on the new In-app guidance tool, Ngage. She has been with Model N for 23 years, where she has been part of many teams such as Professional Services, Product Management & Sales.

Brett DiNatale

VP Life Science Product Strategy & Management, Model N

Brett DiNatale is the Vice President of Life Science Product Strategy and Management at Model N. Through his 20+ years in life science analytics, Brett’s work has focused on leading teams in forecasting, analytic consulting, data science, and analytic product development. Brett brings this expertise to Model N with responsibility for building the long-term product strategy and roadmap as well as guiding the development of new, analytical offerings. With a deep background in market access, commercialization, and both pre- and post-launch analytic needs, Brett strives to help clients optimize not just their Revenue Management business, but how data enables their strategic decision making overall. Prior to Model N, Brett was SVP, Head of Commercial Analytic Solutions at Precision Medicine Group.

Jackie Dondero

Education Consultant, Model N

With a decade of experience in education and curriculum development, Jackie Dondero transitioned into the corporate world by joining Model N’s Education Services as an Education Consultant. Upon joining the Education Services team, Jackie immersed themselves in all things Validata, delivering stellar training to customers and becoming a subject matter expert in the span of a few months. Jackie played a pivotal role in updating existing materials, and creating new training and activities for Validata’s Fall ‘23 release along with the various submodules. In developing the Validata certification, Jackie utilized their extensive experience of creating various forms of assessments across a broad range of subjects to ensure a well rounded and robust learning experience for all participants.

Matt Adlai-Gail

VP Education Services, Model N

Matt is responsible for strategy and execution of all aspects of education for the Model N customer and partner communities, including in-app experience with Ngage. We deliver the learning solutions that enable our customers to achieve their goals across their entire journey with us. ​

Tony George

Assoc. Director Product Management, Model N

Tony has been with Model N since 2008 and is now the Associate Director, Product Management managing the Flex GP/DRM application. Prior to his current role, he was a member of the Model N’s Regulatory practice within the Center of Excellence (COE) and has led multiple implementations of Model N for some of the biggest pharma and MedTech manufacturers.

Chanan Greenberg

SVP Corporate Strategy, Model N

Chanan has been with Model N since 2005 serving in a variety of roles including sales, industry marketing, corporate marketing and corporate development. Chanan served for 7 years as the GM of the High Tech business and currently serves as Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy. During his time at Model N, Chanan has engaged with over 100 companies’ pricing and channel initiatives.  Prior to Model N Chanan was the CEO of Privia Inc. which helped leading Government Contractors such as Lockheed and Boeing manage their bid / and propose sales cycles and prior to that he was the CEO of Click Online which developed consumer multi-media and online products for HP, IBM and The Learning Company. Aside from his 30 year career in Enterprise Software, Chanan is an avid amateur astronomer, served for 6 years as VP and Board Member of the San Mateo Country astronomical society and is an award winning Astro-photographer.

Michael Grosberg

VP Product Management, Model N

Michael Grosberg is the Vice President of Product Management at Model N, responsible for life sciences products across Model N’s portfolio. Michael joined Model N as part of the acquisition of Deloitte’s Pricing and Contracting Solutions business in 2021 and continues to lead a team focused on regulatory compliance, revenue management and analytics for pharmaceutical and Medtech manufacturers. A data scientist and a policy wonk, Michael views the highly complex spaces of pharmaceutical revenue management, market access, and government pricing through the underlying data, pursuing accessibility and quality that drive commercial insights. His 20-year career spans roles in public policy, analytics, systems implementation and change management. He has broad expertise in financial performance management and led development and implementation of pharmaceutical gross-to-net applications for multiple top-tier manufacturers. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and a Master of Public Management degree with highest distinction from the Heinz School, both at Carnegie Mellon University.

Ankur Gupta

Sr. Director, Product Management, Model N

Ankur Gupta is Senior Director of product management for Model N High Tech products. Ankur is a seasoned product management leader, with total 19 years of experience in driving growth of enterprise SaaS bases Revenue Management products at Model N (9 years) and Cloud Management product suite at Oracle (6 years). In his current role at Model N, he focusses on strategy, planning and execution of Revenue Cloud and Intelligence Cloud product suite.

Bernard Gutierrez

VP Solutions, Model N

Casey Hibbs

Sr. Director, Data Strategy, Model N

Gary Jessee

Sr. Vice President, Sellers Dorsey & Associates

Amit Jha

Director, Product Management, Model N

I have been with Model N as a product manager for last 9 years in the High Tech space. I have an overall experience of 16+ years in the Technology space comprising product manager, product consulting and product engineering roles. I have a keen interest in AI/ML and it has become one of my key focus areas at Model N. I’m looking forward to sharing ideas for solving pressing business problems using AI/ML as an enabler.

Neeraj Jha

Director, Center of Excellence, Model N

Neeraj is a Director in Model N’s Center of Excellence (COE) and the Commercial Practice Lead for the Powered by N application with expertise in Provider and Payer Management. Approaching 20 years working in the commercial life sciences space, with 10+ years implementing Model N solutions at over 30 Life Sciences companies, Neeraj brings a unique perspective that combines a deep understanding of the industry along with extensive knowledge of Model N applications through customer-facing project work. He utilizes his experience and project learning to drive best practices and works closely with product management for future application roadmap considerations. Neeraj also leads an excellent team of talented functional resources supporting commercial Powered by N projects.

Romit Kamdar

Partner/Co-Founder, Akara Group LLC

Romit has worked with life science manufacturers for 20 years, advising on and developing solutions for market access analysis and compliance. Romit and Akara Group are experts in Government Pricing, payer and provider contracting, reimbursement, and patient support programs. Akara’s cloud based Gross-to-Net platform, SIMPLY, has been adopted by emerging and mid-size manufacturers to enable precise modeling and decision making with respect to commercialization strategies.

Jasneet Kaur

VP Strategy & Business Development Channel, TE Connectivity

Jasneet Kaur is the Vice President Strategy and Business Development for TE Connectivity’s Channel Business unit, where sales represent approximately 20% of TE’s overall revenue. Jasneet is focused on strengthening our strategic capabilities to drive strategy into action that delivers customer and content growth with TE’s global distribution network. Prior to joining TE in January 2023, Jasneet was with nVent Electric for 17+ years and held various commercial roles. She was Vice President, Business Development at nVent Electric. In this role Jasneet built the organization from the ground-up to deliver scalable growth and a robust pipeline through global channel partnerships and organic and inorganic growth initiatives. In prior commercial roles, Jasneet led go-to market strategy, commercial analytics, digital marketing, and Global Sales and Channel Excellence, developing new markets while building and scaling growth platforms. Jasneet is based in Chicagoland, Illinois, she also likes to volunteer in her free time supporting organizations in helping fund education for the underprivileged kids in India. Jasneet earned her master’s in electrical engineering from IIT, Chicago and her undergraduate in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering degree from NMU, India.

Gloria Kee

VP, Product Management, Model N

Vice President of Product Management for Model N’s High Tech vertical. Gloria has 17 years of industry experience in B2B enterprise software working in product and services for the Pharmaceutical, Medical Technology, and High Tech industries. Gloria holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California Davis.

Jim Kelly

Director, Medicaid Contracting & Rebates, Novartis

Jim has 11 years experience in the Managed Markets space and leads the Medicaid Contracting and Rebates team with a focus on process improvements, gross to net insights, and automation updates.

Manish Kumar

Sr. Director, Product Management, Model N

An industry veteran with over twenty years of experience, Manish is currently responsible for Product Management of Revenue Management, Platform and Intelligence Cloud solutions. In addition, Manish is involved in product roadmap, strategy, development, sales enablement, and all go-to market related activities for Model N’s Commercial offerings.

Rod Lauzon

Exec. Director Contract Operations AstraZeneca

Rod leads the Contract Operations Team, as part of the US Market Access team. This large multi-functional team is accountable for contracting across all U.S. Payers, leading strategic and compliance activities related to commercial & federal contracting, sales order to cash operations, government reporting, rebate processing, SOx compliance, insights & analytics, and revenue management. He also serves as chairperson for contracting governing bodies and partners with the Government Affairs & Policy team on industry initiatives, legislation, and business impact. Rod is the U.S. Ambassador on the Global Inclusion & Diversity Committee and is a Board Member on the AstraZeneca Political Action Committee. Rod has more than 22 years of pharmaceutical industry experience and leadership. Having been with AstraZeneca for 19 years, Rod has held numerous roles in both Manufacturing Operations, Global Supply Chain, and U.S. Market Access with increased leadership accountability. Prior to coming to AstraZeneca, Rod worked at Merck & Co in Vaccine Operations. Rod graduated from the University of Delaware with a Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology. Rod is passionate about creating an inclusive environment that drives value for the organization and the patients we serve.

Maria Lesny

Assoc. Director State Price Transparency Mgmt, Model N

Maria serves as an Associate Director within Model N’s Business Services division, where she specializes in offering reporting assistance and proficiency to Pharmaceutical Manufacturers regarding state price transparency. With a rich background spanning over two decades in the pharmaceutical sector, Maria brings a wealth of experience in various areas including customer service, collections, reverse distribution, deduction management, compliance, and state price transparency. Her key responsibilities include providing guidance and supervision to ensure clients adhere to transparency reporting regulations, along with integrating and delivering managed services effectively.

Kevin Lin

Director Solutions Consulting, Model N

Carl Lonsdale

Sr. Solutions Consultant 2, Model N

Carl is an 9 year vet in the Life Sciences space, with a prior background as a developer in the finance space, he focuses on all things around data, analytics, and reporting. He helps customers build, configure, and trouble shoot data and reports, and loves to talk about all the new and exciting ways reporting can improve your business!

Brian McCartney

VP Strategic Innovation & Policy, McKesson

Brian has responsibility to proactively monitor drug pricing reform issues – including legislative, regulatory and administrative actions at the federal and state level – that could impact strategic and business outcomes for McKesson and their customers, partners and other industry stakeholders in the U.S. pharmaceutical value chain. In addition, Brian assesses financial implications for McKesson, and develops strategies and operational solutions to manage risk and drive business value, harnessing the breadth and depth of enterprise assets and capabilities. Brian has been with McKesson for a little over a year and has close to 20 years of pharmaceutical manufacturer experience in government pricing and policy at J&J, Endo Pharmaceuticals and most recently at AstraZeneca. Brian is a subject matter expert in government price reporting that gives him a deep understanding of the U.S. pharmaceutical supply chain, including 340B, buy and bill and diverse payer segments.

Jesse Mendelsohn

Sr. Vice President, Model N

Jesse Mendelsohn is Sr. Vice President of Model N’s center of excellence and is responsible for delivery teams. His primary area of expertise has been government pricing for life sciences.

Jeet Mukherjee

Chief Strategy Officer, Head of Pricing, Holden Advisors

As Chief Strategy Officer, Jeet is responsible for designing and executing the strategic vision for the company. His role includes developing intellectual property, new product offerings, and key partnerships for scalable growth and innovation across the business. He also serves as the firm’s head of pricing, designing initiatives with executives for breakout profitability growth and overseeing project teams to work collaboratively with clients to improve their market position. Jeet is armed with over two decades of global experience in management consulting, strategy, analytics, marketing, and pricing. He is a regular presenter and keynote speaker, and coaches executives from startups to FORTUNE 100 companies. He specializes in hardware and software pricing with a B2B focus and in 2022, he published Pricing with Confidence: 10 Rules for Increasing Profits and Staying Ahead of Inflation with co-author Reed Holden. Jeet is an Edelman Laureate recipient for his work in business analytics and optimization within distribution. He holds an MBA from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and has worked with clients in manufacturing, distribution, pharmaceutical, healthcare, and technology sectors.

John Michael O’Brien, PharmD, MPH

President & CEO National Pharmaceutical Council

John M. O’Brien, PharmD, MPH, is the president and chief executive officer of the National Pharmaceutical Council (NPC), which sponsors and participates in research on the appropriate use of pharmaceuticals and the clinical and economic value of pharmaceutical innovation. Dr. O’Brien’s broad experience spans the private sector, academia and government. Prior to NPC, Dr. O’Brien was senior advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and deputy assistant secretary of planning and evaluation (health policy). He also has held senior policy positions in the life sciences and managed care industries, including at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and served as a health policy fellow in the U.S. Senate. Dr. O’Brien earned his doctorate in pharmacy at Nova Southeastern University and his master’s degree in public health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Caitlyn Ozier

Counsel, King & Spalding

Caitlyn Ozier is an FDA & Life Sciences attorney at King & Spalding who regularly counsels pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies on a range of regulatory and compliance matters that impact their sales, marketing, and pricing activities. She has specific expertise counseling life sciences companies on state drug price transparency, prescription drug affordability board, and price gouging laws.

Jyoti Pande

Director, Product Management, Model N

Jyoti is a Director of Product Management at Model N focused on taking forward the Medtech product portfolio to the next level of growth. Before Model N, he worked at Icertis – a best of breed, CLM software provider as a Sr. Director of Product Management of Platform and Solutions. More than a dozen leading pharmaceutical companies, including five of the top seven in the world (Abbvie, Johnson and Johnson, Merck, Sanofi, Ultragenyx etc.) use the Icertis Contract Management (ICM) platform to address their challenges with complex drug trial processes, highly regulated promotional programs, complex supply chains and poor integration between contracts and other enterprise processes that impedes tracking of rebate/claim settlement in channels. Prior to Icertis, Jyoti has had an outstanding career at Oracle in leadership roles for two decades. He led the creation of the Contracts Suite and worked on multiple CX (Marketing, Sales, Service, CPQ, CLM), HCM, Financials and SCM on-premise/Cloud products. He leverages a combination of Design thinking and lean product Management techniques to create outstanding products. Besides his deep knowledge of Product Management, he leverages his vast experience in Product Development, Consulting and IT to design and build “leading practices” based products.

Malcolm Penn

Founder & CEO, Future Horizons

Malcolm Penn is the founder and CEO of Future Horizons, the premier global Semiconductor industry watcher with over 260 years’ collective experience of the industry. Founded in 1989, Future Horizons prides itself on the integrity of its work and the rigor and discipline employed in everything it does, not least of which is its commitment to accurate and usable information. Mr. Penn has over 55 years of semiconductor and electronics industry experience covering all aspects of the industry, including new business development, management, manufacturing, marketing, and design. Prior to establishing Future Horizons, Mr. Penn was VP and Director of European Operations for Gartner Dataquest, responsible for establishing its European research operations. Previously he was Manager of Component Engineering for ITT Europe and prior to that held various operations and marketing management positions with the worldwide ITT Semiconductor Group. Mr. Penn studied Electronics Engineering at London’s Southbank University in 1962, graduating with an honors degree in 1966 during which time he worked his way through college as a professional rock and R&B musician.

Ankit Prasad

Sr. Product Manager Model N

Ankit works as a Senior Product Manager within the High-Tech division at Model N, on the Revenue Cloud platform and supports the Deal Management, Channel Management and Price Management product lines. He has over 12 years of rich experience in the tech industry, having worked across multiple domains for companies like TCS, Cognizant Business Consulting, Pramati Technologies and Opentext.

John Schiavone

Principal Solutions Consultant, Model N

John Schiavone is a Solution Engineer with 17 years of experience with Model N and over 25 years of experience in the Life Science industry providing technology solutions to business objectives. John has implemented Revenue Management projects for several of the top Pharmaceutical and Med Tech companies and he brings in depth knowledge of contracting, pricing, quoting, rebates, chargebacks, compliance, master data management as well as reporting and analytics. John is currently on the sales team to help customers with their challenges, find solutions to their problems and educate them on the value of Model N Revenue Execution, especially to the Med Tech community.

John D. Shakow

Partner, King & Spalding

John Shakow is a nationally-recognized expert in all aspects of drug pricing, price reporting, and government program liability mitigation. He has counseled pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients on their rights and obligations under the Medicaid, 340B, Medicare, Federal Supply Schedule, and TRICARE programs for twenty five years. John regularly advises manufacturers on the spectrum of regulatory, commercial and litigation matters relating to pricing and government payor programs. He has extensive experience helping clients resolve commercial, strategic, organizational and other legal challenges while maintaining the integrity of their government pricing compliance efforts.

Nishant Shekhar

Associate Director, Product Management, Model N

Product Manager for Government Cloud (or Regulatory) suite of products, with specific focus on GP, DRM and FSS. Over the span of 8 years, I’ve shipped many enhancements to the product (both Powered by N and Flex platforms) to make sure our customers stay compliant with regulations and derive the greatest value from the product.

Chris Shrope

Assoc. Director, Product Marketing Model N

Chris has deep experience defining product market fit and related new product development activities. He has helped re-defined value driven conversations for a wide range of technologies, often in collaboration with subject matter experts and executive level leadership. Chris received his MBA from the University of Colorado Boulder and holds certifications in Strategic Communications, Analyst Relations, Economics, Law, Product Management and Marketing. He is an advisory board member for the Inland Ocean Coalition, a national non-profit, helping with their chapter and business development efforts.

Dina Simon

Director of LS Education, Model N

Dina Simon is a Director of Education Services responsible for all training for Powered by N Life Science products. She has been with Model N for 14 years, working with pharma and medtech customers of all sizes from across the globe. She manages a team of instructors providing self-paced online and live instructor-led training classes. Session types include out of the box vs. customized, train-the-trainer, delta and refresher training, and the audiences range from project team to end user.

John Stage

Director - Business Management Systems, AMD

With a 18-year career at Advanced Micro Devices, John Stage brings over 9 years in Operations & Supply Chain, working in supply plan optimization, demand / supply matching & data reporting across the entire manufacturing chain (wafer to finished goods).  John also has 9 years in Business Intelligence for Business Operations, focus on the data ecosystem for revenue and demand related datasets, visualization & dashboarding in support of demand processes through the value chain and data modeling (Machine Learning & AI) to extrapolate and categorize for business insight.  In addition John is the functional business owner for CRM and Quoting tools.

Peter Zimmermann

Sr. Director Services Sales, Model N