News | February 19, 2014

Laurence Burke Joins Exco Intouch As Vice President Of Operations

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Position set to ensure provision of robust, streamlined and efficient patient engagement and data capture programs applied across clinical, late phase and mHealth sectors

Exco InTouch, the leading provider of patient engagement and data capture solutions for clinical research and healthcare providers, recently announced the appointment of Laurence Burke as Vice President of Operations. Chief amongst his responsibilities is ensuring that processes are as streamlined and efficient as possible for customers, whilst also ensuring full continuity of robust delivery programs as Exco InTouch continues to grow the volume of its business. Burke willhave responsibility for operations in servicing customers in the clinical, late phase and mHealth fields.

As Vice President of Operations, the full operations team at Exco InTouch, including project management, support and logistics will report to Burke. Based atthe company’s Nottingham office, he joins the senior management team and will report directly to the CEO, Tim Davis.

Burke brings over twenty years experience in clinical research within the pharmaceutical and technology service provider sectors, having previously held positions in Bayer, ClinPhone and PAREXEL.

Burke is a Certified Project Management practitioner and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Specifically, he has strong experience in building operational deliveryand project support teams and achieved fourfold growth for a clinical technologybusiness over just four years. Additionally, he has led customer satisfaction teams to place “customer experience” at the heart of all internal processes and has held responsibility for the planning, implementation, and monitoring of clinical trials on a global scale.

Burke comments: “I am very excited to be joining the Exco InTouch team.This company is at the forefront of the drive to use mobile and digital technology to improve the clinical research and healthcare experience for patients. I amlooking forward to leading the operational team to ensure processes and businessoperations are aligned to deliver programs that exceed customer expectations.”

Tim Davies, CEO and co-founder of Exco InTouch commented: “We are delighted that Laurence has joined Exco InTouch. We offer a range of products across the patient continuum so scale, turnaround and customer satisfaction are paramount. Consequently, utilizing the skill sets that Laurence posseses is a huge asset both to Exco InTouch, and of course our customers.”

About Exco InTouch
Exco InTouch is the leading provider of patient engagement and data capture solutions to support Clinical, Late Phase and mHealth programs for leading healthcare and biopharmaceutical companies. Placing the patient at its heart, our proven technology can be employed on any device, empowering the patient to be more involved in their healthcare and ultimately leading to better health outcomes. Usinga combination of patented software and services our technology can be scaledup to match clients’ global requirements and our trusted, low risk applications mean that data is secure and protected, in line with global regulatory anddataprotection requirements.

Our solutions capitalize upon global mobile device and internet usage, using a device independent approach enabling involvement which integrates into daily life - resulting in motivated and compliant patients across a wealth of therapeutic, demographic and geographic programs in clinical and commercial settings.

Since 2004, Exco InTouch have engaged with over 750,000 subjects across 85 countries, over 8000 hospitals and clinics, in 70 languages and 16 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies have deployed our technology.

Source: Exco InTouch