Meet the team
President, Founder
Geoffrey Gordon
Over the past 30+ years, Geoff has built a strong track record for successfully commercializing new technologies as co-founder and R&D leader of multiple successful startups. Throughout that time, he has continued to lead in defining and deploying new technologies, focusing on the areas of clinical research informatics and medical product safety. As part of founding Commonwealth Informatics, Geoff led the Commonwealth consulting business which served to fund product development and also resulted in development of signal detection methods in partnerships with US and UK regulators and pharmaceutical companies. Geoff managed the scaleup of Commonwealth from the three person core team to come the preferred choice for Signal Detection and Management world-wide.
Senior Vice President Cloud Services
James Bellamy
James brings a varied background of experience across systems integration consulting, program leadership, cloud operations and product management. James began his career at Accenture, where he designed and implemented PV solutions for the MHRA and other Life Sciences organizations, before leaving to work in a variety of industries helping to deliver complex technology change programs within large organizations. Returning to the life sciences sphere, James has helped design and launch innovative machine learning based PV products and cloud based solutions and services. At Commonwealth James is accountable for DevOps, AWS Infrastructure, IT and Product Integrations, and is central to the delivery and ongoing improvement of our cloud architecture and SaaS services.
Senior Vice President Product Management
Bill Blackwell
Vice President Healthcare Services
Bob Zambarano
Bob has been with Commonwealth for nearly 10 years, and has over thirty years of professional experience working with data management and data analysis software systems, primarily in life sciences research settings. He has extensive hands-on technical skills, including systems specification, design, development, implementation, configuration and management, as well as extensive project management experience. At Commonwealth Informatics, Bob oversees Public Health informatics projects involving CII proprietary and bespoke software systems as well as a number of open source products include ESPHealth and EpiTrax.
Chief DELIVERY OFFICER
Vasu Digumarthi
Vasu has extensive experience in building quality systems and streamlining operations and processes. In addition, she brings a wealth of experience in development, services, support and consulting in life sciences and healthcare technologies. Prior to Commonwealth Informatics, Vasu held positions at PAREXEL, Phase Forward, and Oracle working in software products and solutions for clinical trials, adverse event reporting, clinical trial data checking, clinical and healthcare data analysis, and pharmacovigilance. At Commonwealth, Vasu provides strategic direction to all quality initiatives and provides strategic input to Commonwealth’s product development and works with teams across our organization to establish optimized plans, processes and tools to align functional areas and achieve desired results. She holds the responsibility for delivery of Services and Solutions to our clients, Quality, Compliance and Information Security.
CUSTOMER SUCCESS OFFICER
Simon Brooks
Simon carries a valuable combination of pharma industry IT and startup software vendor experience. His background includes many years in Pharma IT, including managing teams at GSK and building the IT function at Indivior. He was the early design lead on the Argus Clinical Safety suite of products for Relsys (but now owned by Oracle) and has additionally held positions at My Meds & Me as CTO, Oracle as Product Champion, and at IQVIA. At Commonwealth, Simon holds the responsibility for overall Customer Success. He works closely with Product Management and Product Development ensuring that customer success is central to our planning and operations as well as our service delivery.
