Out­sourc­ing vet­er­an Jamie Mac­don­ald takes the helm at Parex­el; CSO Rosana Kapeller ex­its Nim­bus

→ Top-10 CRO Parex­el has brought in an ex­pe­ri­enced hand to take the helm. Co-founder Josef von Rick­en­bach — a fa­mil­iar face in the out­sourc­ing world — is step­ping up to con­cen­trate on the chair­man’s spot af­ter guid­ing the com­pa­ny for the past 35 years. And he’s be­ing re­placed in the CEO suite by Jamie Mac­don­ald, who not so long ago head­ed INC Re­search be­fore its merg­er with in­Ven­tiv and re­brand­ing as Sy­neos. “What we have is a tech back­bone, a strong ba­sis in Asia, da­ta and an­a­lyt­ics,” the new CEO told End­points News. Key con­cerns re­main the same: “Are we se­lect­ing the right drug and the most ap­pro­pri­ate pro­to­col, putting them in­to the right hands in sites and in­ves­ti­ga­tors.” Are they buy­ing any­thing any­time soon? “We cer­tain­ly have the ca­pa­bil­i­ty to ac­quire cer­tain as­sets,” said Mac­don­ald, who sound­ed most in­ter­est­ed in adding ca­pa­bil­i­ties rather than buy­ing mar­ket share through M&A.

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