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John Piccone

Partner

John Piccone

Mr. Piccone has been working in drug discovery, translational medicine and healthcare research for over 30 years.  He pioneered applications of data science and AI in scientific research and clinical medicine through roles at IBM Watson Health and founding the Biomedical Research Practice at ZS Associates.  His clients include many of the largest global biopharma companies and most innovative biotechs.

Gil Rivas

Partner

Gil Rivas

Mr. Rivas has led business units and business development teams for large multinational organizations in the Pharma and Medtech industry for over 30 years.  He has led the development and commercialization of novel therapies, leading organizations as large as 300. He has also led business development efforts for Fortune 50 companies and private equity investors.  He has prior experience at Johnson and Johnson, Baxter Healthcare, Cardinal Health and Dexcom. 

Andrew Brown, Ph.D.

Associate Partner

Andrew Brown, Ph.D.

Dr. Brown comes from both an academic and industry background, with over 10 years as a scientific consultant. He brings a strong computational and biological background to building and architecting scientific data platforms at scale. His clients include many fast-moving biotechnology startups and enterprise global pharmaceutical companies.  

Bogdan Bošković

Associate Consultant

Bogdan Bošković

Mr. Bošković is a software engineer with 7 years of experience in data science and software development. His professional and academic experience consists of leading software development teams, building and maintaining scalable infrastructure, wrangling large datasets, and solving natural language processing and computer vision problems.

Summer 2024 Florida Atlantic University Interns

Numana Luqman

Intern

Numana Luqman

Cellular Neuroscience, 2024. 

Diego Perez

Intern

Diego Perez

Mathematics, 2024.