Meet our Leadership Team
Led by a group of visionary life sciences thought leaders, Exeevo’s leadership is dedicated to revolutionizing health experiences for healthcare teams and patients in their journey toward sustainable health outcomes. Our leadership brings experience building and scaling products that improve people’s lives at Symphony Health Technology, IMS Health, Veeva Systems, IQVIA, and other leading technology companies. They take pride in providing the best possible experience for our employees and customers, even if it requires creating new technologies and solving technology paradigms along the way.
Richard Adams
Chief Executive Officer
Richard Adams began his career in the pharmaceutical industry. As a medical representative in the United Kingdom, he was responsible for selling pharmaceutical products in primary and secondary care. After a successful start, Richard moved on to IMS Health, now IQVIA, where he obtained his first taste of applying technology and data to solve Life Sciences business challenges. Following his time at IQVIA, Richard spent over thirteen years at Dendrite, who were pioneering CRM in Life Sciences at the time. Richard’s responsibilities evolved from account management through global product marketing to leading the company’s European operations.
His experience was later complemented when Richard was appointed CEO at Doctors.net, the leading online physician network. Richard’s vision led UK pharma companies to adopt digital communication strategies with physicians as an integral element of their customer engagement approach, and he doubled the size of the business which was then sold to M3 Corp. After running his consulting and advisory business, Richard was appointed to the Executive Board of Wilmington plc to head the HealthCare division. Pursuing a buy-and-build strategy, the division more than tripled in size and extended its portfolio of services to Life Science to encompass novel data analytics and CRM-centered solutions.
In 2019 Richard was appointed CEO at PRISYM ID, the leader in label management software for medical technology manufacturing and clinical trials supplies.
Richard holds a B. Soc. Sc International Studies from the University of Birmingham.
Derek J. Evans
Senior Vice President, Growth
Derek J. Evans is Senior Vice President, Growth for Exeevo. He is recognized as a transformational executive leader with over 25 years’ experience in the life sciences industry.
Before joining Exeevo, Derek was head of the Americas Commercial team at Aris Global. Prior to Aris Global, Derek was the Head of Professional Services at Symphony Health, a division of PRA Health Sciences (now ICON). In his role, Derek led the company’s consulting and services practices.
Previously, as head of Symphony’s Health Technology Services (HTS) practice, Derek built a business providing cloud-enabled data integration and management services. Derek was the co-founder of Software Associates International, Inc. (SAI) which offered technology solutions focused on the Commercial Operations functions of Life Science companies. SAI grew to over $22M in revenue and was subsequently acquired by Dendrite. Prior to starting SAI, Derek worked at Dendrite (Cegedim), in several global markets including Australia, UK, Japan, and the US.
Derek holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree from Macquarie University,
Jack Lyons
Vice President, Enterprise Accounts
Jack Lyons is Vice President, Enterprise Accounts for Exeevo. He is responsible for the global business development of enterprise accounts efforts. Jack has spent much of his career in the Life Sciences industry and has a profound depth of technology solution expertise and knowledge. Prior to Exeevo, Jack served as Vice President at Gartner, where he provided strategic information technology guidance to a vast range of CIOs, CTOs, and CFOs at Global Fortune 100 companies. Jack has held leadership positions at Alliance, IMS Health, Dendrite, EMC, and Cloudera.
Jack holds an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a BS in Biology from Montclair State University.
Chris Wade
Associate Vice President, Strategic Solutions
Chris Wade is Associate Vice President, Strategic Solutions for Exeevo. Chris is responsible for shaping Exeevo’s long-term go-to-market commercial strategy. He is recognized in the life sciences industry as a forward-thinking leader in the customer experience and digital space. Since joining Dendrite in 1997, Chris has worked with leading organizations like Veeva, IMS Health, PwC Consulting, and Doctors.net.uk in a range of business development, product management, and strategic roles.
Chris holds a B. Comm from Deakin University and a B. Arch from the University of Melbourne.
Simon Wicks
Vice President, EMEA
Simon is responsible for the EMEA regions growth and expansion. He is passionate about driving innovation in digital engagement and customer experience. He is an advocate of building strategic partnerships for delivering customer success.
Simon has over 25 years of experience in the life science commercial area of Business Intelligence and CRM solutions. He has held senior positions with Dendrite, IQIVA, and Veeva with a proven track record of executing successful complex information technology solutions.
Simon holds a BA Honors, Business Studies from the University of Brighton.
Thierry Durand
Associate Vice President, Customer Success
Thierry Durand is Associate Vice President, Customer Success for Exeevo. Thierry is known for his proactive corporate leadership that enables organizations to position themselves as preeminent thought leaders, surpass competitive offerings, and overcome market challenges before they occur. His ability to clearly present value to Tier I stakeholders, penetrate untapped global/regional markets, and transform internal operations into a performance-centered culture has established a career history of record accomplishments.
Prior to Exeevo, he was CEO and President of Pilgrim Quality Solutions where he was recruited to company by PE firm post-acquisition in 2011 to plan and implement major re-engineering of organization, including replacing and hiring key personnel, establishing overall and departmental budgets, processes / procedures / KPIs, improving company culture / employee satisfaction / company reputation, reorganizing / rebranding product offering.
Before Pilgrim he was Senior Vice President Global Sales and Business Development for Systech International where he was mandated to aggressively grow market share both directly and through channel partners in North America, EU, Middle East, and APAC which resulted in signing company’s first global contract with top 3 Pharmaceutical Company for ~$10M over 5 years.
Thierry holds an MBA, Marketing from the University of San Francisco, an MBA Management from the ISG Institut Supérieur de Gestion and a DESS, Informatics from the Université Lumière Lyon 2.
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