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ICON appoints executive vice president

pharmafile | June 17, 2013 | Appointment | Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ICON 

Clinical research organisation ICON has appointed Dr Neil McCullough as executive vice president of Quality and Compliance and Corporate Training.

McCullough joins from PPD and will be providing strategic direction for quality management, assurance and corporate training across the firm, to ensure it delivers solutions to clients that are compliant with the global regulations guiding the biopharma industry.

McCullough brings to ICON over 22 years of experience leading global quality functions for pharma and clinical research organisations. Prior to ICON, he led the global quality and compliance division of PPD, before which he spent nine years at Pfizer as a member of the Pfizer Global Medical Quality Assurance Leadership team.

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Prior to Pfizer, guiding the biopharma industry. McCullough served as a quality consultant to GlaxoSmithKline’s division of manufacturing.

Commenting on the appointment, Ciaran Murray, chief executive of ICON, said: “I would like to welcome Neil to ICON’s executive leadership team. Delivering quality data and services to the standards required by clients and that are fully compliant with the evolving requirements of regulatory authorities underpins everything we do. Neil’s leadership and industry expertise will allow us to further enhance the quality and compliance solutions we offer to clients in support of their global drug development programmes.”

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