Elaina N. Haeuber

Elaina brings more than 20 years of clinical research operations and project management experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. Most recently, she was Vice President, Operations at WCG, a global organization supporting various aspects of clinical trials where she was responsible for overseeing data safety monitoring boards and independent event adjudication for numerous clinical studies. Prior to this, she was Executive Director, Operations Management for oncology and hematology trials at Syneos Health. Elaina has overseen the regional and global project and clinical management teams of up to 300 staff and managed a strategic biopharma portfolio at PPD, which included more than 60 studies in multiple therapeutic areas. Her oncology experience includes all phases of studies across multiple indications, cell and gene therapy, and immuno- and targeted therapies. She has supported programs leading to marketing approval in both the US and EMA including PD-L1 inhibitor Tecentriq approved in non-small cell lung cancer, small cell lung cancer, triple-negative breast cancer, and other indications, Zynteglo, the first cell-based gene therapy approved for patients with beta-thalassemia, and Skysona, a gene therapy for patients with early, active cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (CALD). While at PPD, she supported the merger of two independent business units (Acurian and Synexus) into an integrated business unit called Accelerated Enrollment Solutions, as well as played a key role in designing a decentralized clinical trial model to better manage their large clinical trial operations. She has a BA from Boston University and an MS from the University of Illinois.