Dr. Jürgen Harter

Leading the development of the scientific and business sides to ensure sustainability, and fulfilling CCDC's charitable remit of promoting societal benefits through its scientific endeavours. Driving growth and promoting highest standards for chemistry data/software. Meeting digital transformation challenges (AI, machine learning) and delivering operational efficiencies. Executing CCDC strategy and promoting core values and high-quality standards as a world-class research center and global data repository.

Experienced executive with strong commercial acumen and proven track record on delivering big projects for biotechs & pharma. Driving artificial intelligence / machine learning, and creating value from data. Digital transformation champion to evolve business models. Executing on complicated M&A integrations, introducing and adapting superior workflows to automate to a highest level. Generating insights and turning big data into smart data.

Responsible for running the IT department at Horizon Discovery Group plc., and the design and execution of all IT/Informatics/Data strategy. Member of executive leadership team.

Vice President, Information Systems, responsible for all the information systems, both on the commercial and the scientific side. This includes project management and deployment of an ERP solution, electronic lab notebooks, and laboratory information management systems - and all the accompanying data migrations and switching off legacy systems. Establishment of best practices and appropriate processes and workflows for comprehensive information and knowledge management.

Business Development Director selling mobile solutions to effectively and efficiently handle clinical trials and studies, including recruitment and retention of patients, and ePRO (electronic patient reported outcomes) solutions. Mobile apps and solutions for mHealth.

PerkinElmer acquired CambridgeSoft Inc. - my responsibilities within sales and business development are broadly similar to the ones at CambridgeSoft - with now a much increased product portfolio and wider network to work with. Specialising in selling PerkinElmer Informatics life sciences enterprise solutions (electronic lab notebooks, chemical inventory, registry et al.) to major accounts, big pharmaceutical companies, and SMEs (biotechs/medtech etc.).

Director of Sales - I'm responsible for the UK/Nordics/Germany/Israel territory, selling CambridgeSoft life sciences enterprise solutions (electronic lab notebooks, chemical inventory, registry et al.) to major accounts, big pharma, and SMEs (biotechs etc.).

Heading up Abcam's Business Development department and managing a high-performance global multidisciplinary team of 12 people with PhD/PostDoc level scientific (biochemistry, molecular biology) or computational (bioinformatics) degrees. I'm responsible for the scientific strategies and bus/product dev plans of the core focus research areas (chromatin, cancer, neuroscience, nuclear signaling, immunology, stem cells, microbiology, cell biology, signal transduction, developmental biology).

responsible for design, modelling, production and management of chemistry content for life science ontologies/taxonomies/intelligence networks. Expert in visualisation, analysis and integration of biological and chemical information, across complex and heterogeneous IT landscapes.

research and development on the eScience project 'World Wide Molecular Matrix', a peer-to-peer system for life sciences knowledge management, focused on drugs and molecules and their physicochemical properties, usage of grid technologies

Metallorganic chemistry, total synthesis, natural product synthesis, asymmetric synthesis

Inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, economics

Organische Chemie, Anorganik, Physikalische Chemie, Computer in der Chemie