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.
Susan Gallop, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, CEBS
Global Head, Human Resources
Susan Gallop, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, CEBS has served as a hands-on leader with a demonstrated competency of prioritizing and executing strategic change in complex environments. She brings a proven track record of workforce alignment with business goals to consistently achieve positive results. She has demonstrated capability in managing effective Human Resources operations, managing, guiding, and developing HR staff; coaching and developing supervisory management; and consulting with and developing leadership and staff.
She has served as a consulting manager for the service, manufacturing / distribution, and energy industries, both domestically and internationally, for over 20 years. She enjoys collaborating on organizational strategies designed to facilitate business growth.
She brings strong experience in managing employee relations, internal investigations and performance improvement programs, full-cycle recruitment, visa/immigration and compliance management, including ERISA, HIPAA, ACA/PPACA programs, FMLA, COBRA, ADA, FLSA and Wage and Hour.
She has a Master's in HR / Organizational Development and 3 professional certifications in her field.
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.
Dr. Chao Chen
Senior Director, Biostatistics
Chao has hands-on experience in statistical methodology as well as in-depth understanding of the underlying theory. His therapeutic experience covers a wide spectrum with significant contribution in neurology, oncology, cardiology and ophthalmology. Serving as an unblinded biostatistician and working closely with clinicians to review interim data under data monitoring committee set-up is another area Chao has dedicated to. In addition to coordinating all the biostatistical activities in clinical trials, he also published research articles in biostatistical and clinical journals.
Caryl Parker
Director, Administrative Services
Caryl joined Symbiance in 2002 as an Office Administrator and quickly moved up the ranks culminating in her current role as Director, Administrative Services.
With a keen eye for detail and a commitment to efficiency, Caryl has implemented processes that have streamlined operations, reduced costs, and improved overall productivity. Caryl is also committed to creating a supportive work environment that values equality and professional development.
Caryl holds a BA in Business Economics. She has a deep sense of commitment to advancing diversity and inclusion and is a diligent professional always willing to take the initiative when the company needs it most.
Tamilselvi
Vice President of Biometrics
Tamilselvi is the Vice President of Biometrics Life Sciences Services at Symbiance, bringing 17 years of Clinical Industry experience. She excels in Data Standardization and Statistical Programming, contributing significantly to the company’s success. Tamilselvi leads a team dedicated to core operations and client relations. Prior to Symbiance, she held important roles at Navitas Life Sciences and Kinship Technologies. Tamilselvi holds a degree in Computer Science Engineering from Kongu Engineering College.
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.