Leadership Team
Ilango Ramanujam
President & Chief Executive Officer
Ilango, A Passionate Life Sciences Entrepreneur. Has over three decades of experience in Pharmaceutical, Bio-tech and CRO industry. Conceptualized and designed products to manage clinical data from collection to submission. Created and Built - Development and Services Teams - globally which delivered several regulatory critical systems in Clinical Data Sciences, with uncompromised quality to Pharmaceutical companies.
David Piester
Chief Commercial Officer
Dave heads the Sales, Marketing, Account Management, and Partners/Alliances. Dave is a seasoned senior software executive and skilled entrepreneur that specializes in taking new software tech products to market at start up/early stage software tech firms. He has been part of multiple exits/acquisitions at the pre-revenue stage with zero or one customer. Symbiance is his 6th tech focused organization he has worked at spanning almost 20 years. Dave Piester has been a player, coach, and mentor across most all sectors and verticals, specializing in simplifying highly complex ML/AI driven data enterprise solutions for large Fortune 100 companies to drive business outcomes.
Dave is always excited about taking to market new innovative products that Symbiance creates. He understands the start-up landscape well and enjoys mostly working in a flexible and collaborative environment that works together in forming a GTM strategy, that can pivot on a dime, in an ever-changing innovative tech landscape. Dave has an intuitive, proactive approach to creating innovative business development GTM strategies designed to stimulate sales, increase global market presence, and enhance bottom-line/top line results.
Mark Pittman
Head of Marketing & Inside Sales
Mark is one of the most focused and serving-minded sales and marketing professionals. Mark melds creativity, sweeping attentiveness and insight to pull off some incredible projects (& serve some big-time clients like Disney, Walden, Reebok). Described as top-shelf when it comes to face-to-face interaction (presentations, selling, training, coaching) - applying tenacious effort and focus to understand and be in "lock-step" with the purpose he's serving.
Mark's Specialties are in sales, marketing strategy development, training development, all aspects of face-to-face communication, seminar training, tradeshow presentation, tradeshow set-up and marketing, out-of-the-box marketing ideas, event planning, corp. development, branding and identity, PR, team development and strategic growth.
Mark's industry experience cuts across numerous verticals including Big Data Analytics, Data Governance Innovation, Music Industry, and various non-profits. With a past that includes college athletics, he's a little competitive.. but keeps one eye on the score and one on his teammates.
Balamurgan Dhayalan
Director, Statistical Programming
Bala has over 15 years of specialized experience in Life sciences and clinical research, with a strong focus on statistical programming and Management. He has extensive experience on end-to-end data analysis and reporting across multiple therapeutic areas. His role encompasses overseeing statistical programming activities, fostering, and managing client relationships and project portfolios. His responsibility includes leading team performance and contributing to the strategic advancement of statistical programming initiatives. He also manages the budget forecasting and invoicing responsibilities. Before his tenure at Symbiance, Bala held a range of positions at several contract research organizations (CROs). He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering.
Pathamuthu Gajendran
Director - Statistical Programming
Pathamuthu Gajendran has 15 years of extensive experience in Life Sciences and Clinical Research, specializing in Bio-Statistical Programming and Clinical Data Analysis. With a deep understanding of end-to-end analysis across various therapeutic areas, including Neurology, Oncology, and Rare Diseases, he plays a crucial role in delivering high-quality statistical programming solutions. As the Director of Statistical Programming at Symbiance, he is responsible for managing project execution and ensuring seamless deliverables to clients. He works closely with client representatives to understand and fulfill their requirements while collaborating with senior management and cross-functional teams to develop and execute programming strategies that drive business growth and client satisfaction. His leadership provides strategic direction to the Statistical Programming department, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and industry best practices. He gained valuable experience in clinical programming and data analysis at leading life sciences and technology companies. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering and continues to leverage his technical proficiency and industry insights to drive innovation in statistical programming.
Ramkumar Rajendiran
Director - Biostatistics
Ramkumar is a biostatistician with over 16 years of experience in leading cross-functional teams in the design, analysis, and interpretation of clinical trials in all phases by supporting various therapeutic areas including neurology, oncology, cardiology and ophthalmology. Represents biostatistics function in interactions with institutional review boards, ethics committees, and health agencies. As the Director of Biostatistics, oversees the development and implementation of statistical strategies to support clinical research. Prior to joining Symbiance, Ramkumar held a range of positions at several contract research organizations (CROs). He holds a master's degree in statistics and completed certification in data science from IIT Madras.
Nishath Altaf
Director-Clinical Data Management
Nishath Altaf, comes with an experience of 13+ years in Clinical Data Management Industry. A versatile professional leader with proven industry experience, Nishath brings to the team a blend of core domain expertise across therapeutic areas, along with diverse operational adeptness in people management. She is an experienced Clinical Data Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the health care industry with a strong understanding of project dynamics and delivering the customer requirements with the desired quality under any circumstances. Skilled in Electronic Data Capture (EDC), Life Sciences, Data Validation, Medidata, and Oncology and other therapeutic areas like rare diseases. Her role includes primary liaison between data management, 3rd party vendors, CRAs, statistical group, clinical coding group, eCRF developers, Clinical trial team, Project Managers for project issues including initiation, planning and execution and close out of assigned studies. She also plays a pivotal role in managing resource assignments across projects, providing guidance for production of Data Management deliverable and technical advice and solutions with internal and external customers to solve problems and improve efficiency. Academically, she holds MSc in Microbiology from Bangalore University.