Shawn Blackburn, YPrime

As CEO of YPrime, Shawn Blackburn provides strategic leadership and direction. Since co-founding YPrime in 2006, Shawn has led the company growth from a two-person consulting firm to a global organization that focuses on evolving technologies to help accelerate development timelines, simplify process complexity, and improve data quality across the clinical development continuum. With a background in systems architecture and information management, Shawn has built a reputation for helping companies discover insights about future opportunities by bringing together siloed information in meaningful context to support strategic decision making. Prior to YPrime, Shawn had a long career as a technology consultant for Cephalon and Parexel. While at Cephalon, he was instrumental in the company’s development of applications to improve clinical trial workflow and provide deeper visibility into clinical trial performance. This week we discuss clinical trial technology, the lack of flexibility of many tech vendors, and decentralized clinical trials.