Biographies

Contact Grant:

Grant.Hodgkins@AlconLabs.com

Grant Hodgkins

Grant Hodgkins is responsible for development of Global Supply Chain strategy, standards and processes for Alcon Laboratories, Inc. He has held global positions in Quality Assurance, Validation, and Global Supply Chain over his 22 year career with Alcon. Grant is also responsible for global Auto-ID solutions for Alcon including pedigree, barcodes, RFID, brand security and anti-counterfeiting.

In addition, he also represents all healthcare divisions of Nestle S.A. companies as a member of the Nestle RFID Core Team. He is co-chair of the EPCglobal Industry Adoption Task Force and the GS1 Healthcare Application Standard Team, and an active participant in the EPCglobal Tri-Chair/Co-Chair Leadership Team, the GS1 Architecture Committee, and the GS1 Healthcare User Group. Grant is also a PMP-certified project manager..

Contact Mark:

Mark.Hoyle@covidien.com

Mark Hoyle
Covidien

Mark has a broad and varied experience across a number of industries, concentrating within pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing for the last 14 years. He is today focused with Covidien as the Manager for Corporate Packaging based in Europe.

Mark’s growth in the industry follows an engineering path especially in the area of new product and process introduction. In his present role he is responsible for global strategy development and implementation for product identification, complemented with a background in automation and controls.

Prior to joining Covidien, formally Tyco Healthcare at the beginning of 2005, Mark has worked as Process Development Group Manager for Ocular Sciences Inc. with key responsibilities for product launch of their daily disposable contact lens range. Prior to his six years with OSI he has worked for Glaxo and GEA staying very involved with developing technologies and their introduction to the healthcare industry.

Contact Joe:

joe_pleasant@PremierInc.com

Joe Pleasant
Premier, Inc.

Joseph M. (Joe) Pleasant is CIO and Senior Vice President of Premier, Inc., the largest healthcare alliance in the United States, with an estimated annual purchasing volume in excess of $25 billion and more than 200 Healthcare systems that own or operate some 850 institutions. Premier also has affiliations with another 900 hospitals.

Prior to being appointed to his current position as CIO and Senior Vice President in charge of Premier’s Information Systems, Mr. Pleasant served as Chief Administrative Officer of SunHealth, Inc., one of Premier’s predecessor organizations. During his 25 years with SunHealth, Mr. Pleasant held numerous positions that included senior management consultant, relationship manager for owners in Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland, senior Human Resources executive and CIO.

In his current position as CIO, Mr. Pleasant oversees Premier’s information systems infrastructure that includes legacy, enterprise, and web enabled offerings.

Mr. Pleasant is past Chairman and a founding member of the Coalition for Healthcare eStandards (CHeS), a fellow member of HIMSS, and a founding member of CHIME. Mr. Pleasant is involved in national efforts to improve the Healthcare supply chain and serves on Board of Directors of both the National Alliance for Healthcare Information Technology (NAHIT) and GS1 and is a member of the Health Industry Distributors Association’s Supply Chain Advisory Council. Mr. Pleasant is past President of the North Carolina Chapter of HIMSS and chaired HIMSS’s 2006 Annual Conference Education Committee. A cum laude graduate of N.C. State University in Engineering, Mr. Pleasant holds a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of North Carolina.

Contact Tom:

twerthwi@corus.jnj.com

Tom Werthwine
J&J

Tom Werthwine has over 25 years experience in the medical device industry. His background includes regulatory affairs, research & development, and marketing.

Tom is currently with the Johnson & Johnson Global Supply Chain Group. In addition to being a member of the GS1 Healthcare Users Group, Tom is an active member of the AIM Global Healthcare Action Group, the EPCglobal Healthcare and Life science Action Group, and the Health Industry Business Communications Council. Tom holds a B.A. from Penn State University.

Contact Leighton:

leighton.hansel@abbott.com

Leighton Hansel
Abbot Laboratories

Leighton Hansel is Director of Regulatory Affairs for the Medical Products Group of Abbott Laboratories. He is responsible for providing regulatory support to Abbott’s device businesses and coordinates consensus standards activities. He is a member of the AAMI Board of Directors, serves as the convener of WG3 (Nomenclature and Symbols) of ISO/TC 210, and is a member of the GMDN (Global Medical Device Nomenclature) Maintenance Agency Policy Group. Leighton received his Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from Miami University (Ohio) and his Masters Degree in Management from Xavier University (Ohio). Leighton joined Abbott in 2000 with responsibility for a program to evaluate the complaint management processes for all Abbott product areas from customer contact to reporting adverse events to regulatory authorities. The program included the development of best practice procedures and business requirements for IT solutions. Prior to joining Abbott, he was with the Food and Drug Administration with the majority of his career spent in FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health.

Contact Dave:

dturner@novationco.com

Dave Turner
Novation

David Turner has 25 years of experience managing large scale product information systems. He is serving as Director, Product Information Management, at Novation LLC. Novation is a health care contracting services company, whose nearly 3,000 VHA and UHC members and more than 9,000 HPPI members used Novation to purchase more than $31.6 billion in supplies in 2006.

In 2000/2001, through a collaboration between the UNSPSC administrator and the Coalition for Healthcare e-Standards, Turner chaired a team of 25 companies that rewrote the Medical/Surgical Segment of the UNSPSC.

Prior to joining the healthcare industry in 1999, Turner enjoyed a successful 18-year career in the commercial aviation industry. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Los Angeles, and a Master degree from Pratt Institute in New York.

Contact Tim:

Tim.Marsh@pfizer.com

Tim Marsh
Pfizer

Tim Marsh is Senior Manager of Global Packaging Technology at Pfizer. He is primarily responsible for the identification, development and deployment of anti-counterfeiting technologies for Pfizer pharmaceutical and animal health products globally. Tim also leads Pfizer’s RFID initiatives and is active in the development of their mass serialization strategies.

Tim received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1992. He also holds associate degrees in engineering and liberal arts and earned a certificate in Auto-ID and RFID from MIT in 2004. Tim also received barcode certification from GS1 in 2007.

Tim joined Pfizer in 2002 after having worked in the medical device area of healthcare for B.Braun, Becton Dickinson and Saint-Gobain.

Contact Frédérique:

frederique.fremont@ch-aulnay.fr

Frédérique Frémont
Robert Ballanger Hospital

Prior to joining Robert Ballanger Hospital as organization engineer, Frédérique worked for more than 10 years in healthcare consulting. She was a senior manager in Ernst & Young Healthcare department responsible for creating and developing the non medical process optimization (pharmacy, radiology, laboratory departments, surgery rooms, out-patient clinics, emergency wards,…), supply chain management and information technology development.

Frédérique graduated from ESSEC in 1990 with a specialization in supply chain management after working for 10 years in Renault manufacturing department. She is a member of Cologh (Hospital group member of the French Logistic Association) and of the French HUG group.

Frédérique joined Robert Ballanger in 2006 after working as project director in L.F.B (plasma-derived medicinal products and "biotech" products).

Contact Janice:

janice.kite@gs1.org

Janice Kite
Work team facilitator

Prior to joining GS1 Global Office as a consultant, Janice was a senior Manager with responsibility for eBusiness for Johnson & Johnson’s UK Medical Device and Diagnostic companies. This role continued a common thread throughout her career of roles at various stages of the extended supply chain from materials planning through Customer Service management to eBusiness, with the downstream trend of moving closer to the external customer.

She was chair of Association of British Healthcare Industries (ABHI) Supply Chain and eBusiness Group (SCEBG) and Vice-chair of Eucomed’s (The European Medical Technology Industry Association) eBusiness Task Force (ETF), and was founding Co-Chair of GS1 UK Healthcare User Group.

In May 2007 she attained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with Henley Management College. Her dissertation (Hypothesis: Medical Device manufacturer applied or embedded RFID has benefits to Patient Safety over existing Auto-ID technologies, e.g. Bar Codes) received critical acclaim.

Janice works from her home in the south east of England where she lives with her partner and their 18 year old daughter.