Biography: Jeanne Taylor Hecht is a global Business Executive and Board Member with deep experience leading successful teams across mature and emerging markets within the product development, pharma services and life sciences space. As CEO of JTH Consulting, LLC., Jeanne commands broad knowledge and deep expertise in the Life Sciences arena. She has dedicated much of her career to guiding international companies through healthy growth – thoughtfully, strategically, and with unyielding integrity.

Jeanne’s Life Sciences consulting practice supports companies with sales, marketing and market growth strategies, strategic plan development as well as advisory and board work. Her experience spans the CRO, medical imaging, research site, emerging biotechnology, eClinical, early-stage AI and technology business landscape and life sciences services market. In this capacity Jeanne serves as a strategic advisor to BOD’s, venture capitalists, PE companies, CEO’s as well as their business leaders. Jeanne serves as a NED for a publicly traded company out of the UK, Vectura Group (VEC), a publicly traded company out of India, Veeda Clinical Research, and for an emerging eClinical company in the US, Ripple Science. Jeanne serves on several academic boards including the Center for the Business of Health and 100 Women at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler’s School of Business. She is an active and founding Advisory Board member for Wake-Forest University’s master’s in clinical research program.

During her career in industry, Jeanne built and empowered successful teams in mature and emerging markets, and across numerous product and service sectors. Recently as CEO of Ora, Inc., Jeanne supported her teams’ excellent delivery of full-service pre-clinical and clinical ophthalmic drug and device development – motivated, as always, by the good work of her teams and the patients they strived to serve. Jeanne first joined Ora in 2018 as a member of the Board of Directors and was later named to the CEO position. Under Jeanne’s guidance, Ora expanded its international presence into Europe and China, introduced new lines of businesses, and furthered its goals along numerous strategic paths. Prior to that, Jeanne was a member of the Board and Chief Operating Officer of Median Technologies (ALMDT.PA), a publicly listed oncology imaging company where she was responsible for leading, implementing, and driving the company’s global strategy including the expansion into a new therapy area, NASH. Earlier in her career, Jeanne held many senior roles at IQVIA (formerly QuintilesIMS), an international company that provides biopharmaceutical development and commercial outsourcing services. She was a Member of the Quintiles Executive Committee, and President of the Quintiles WIN (Women in Networking) group. Prior to this, she held several leadership positions of increasing responsibility with the company. She was also Vice President of Marketing & Sales for Decision Biomarkers, Inc. and Regulatory Affairs Officer for the UNC Oncology Protocol Office.

Jeanne is also a volunteer of Senior PharmAssist, a nonprofit group that provides medication access and medication therapy management to seniors in North Carolina. She further volunteers with Kids=Play, a nonprofit group building playgrounds for children with disabilities in Southern Virginia, and with Ronald McDonald House. She holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan and a Master of Business Administration from that university’s Ross School of Business. She earned a Certificate of Project Management from the Project Management Institute. Jeanne is an active member of the Carolinas Chapter of Women Corporate Directors (https://www.womencorporatedirectors.org/), the world’s largest membership organization and community of women corporate board directors.

In her free time Jeanne enjoys spending time with her husband, scuba diving (she is a technical diver), playing tennis, reading, cooking, and birdwatching.