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Rich Svinkin

Commercial Innovation AI Lead at Astellas Pharma

Otis, Massachusetts

Overview

Work Experience

  • Commercial Innovation AI Lead

    2024 - Current

    Leading AI Innovation in the Commercial Organization of Global Opthalmics & Rare Disease

  • Partner Baker Hall Capital

    2021

  • Executive Director - AI Product Mgt.

    2023 - 2024

  • Executive Director - Head of Product Horizon AI

    2022 - 2023

    Productized Horizon AI for Promotional Material Review Automation - LLM developed by NVS AI Lab for automated Claims and References Mgt. - Leveraged Foundational Models from Microsoft & Open AI - Developed UI Product for NVS editors to accelerate review of inbound draft materials for MAP process readiness - Reduced review time by 5x

  • Director Digital Health Solutions

    2019 - 2022

    - Led Horizon AI POC development and testing with NVS Global and US editorial staff - Managed team of data scientists, UI developers and designers, IT infrastructure and Azure Architects and Support Engineers - Horizon was the only commercial use case within the first wave of solutions developed in partnership with Microsoft AI Lab

  • Sr. Technical Product Mgr.

    2018 - 2019

    Led Project to develop a Payer behavior prediction algorithm and UI for Retina Practices in the buy and bill space. Algorithm exceeded 95% accuracy on 20k patient claim responses from Payers including MA and Commercial

  • CEO, Cofounder & Head of Product

    2016 - 2019

    Walk, get $, jaywalk.me Graduate Boomtown Boulder 5/17

  • Cofounder & Head of Product

    2015 - 2016

    Using Blockchain to disrupt currency exchange and international money transfer

  • Technical Product Manager - IT Innovation

    2013 - 2015

    Product Lead for development of a clinical decision support system for Anti Microbial Stewardship in a hospital setting

  • Product Manager and UX team lead

    2011 - 2013

    Key leader on the EPP program a company wide, global program delivering a validated portal for global collaboration with Merck’s external partners. EngageZone.Merck.com portal nominated for BIO IT World 2013. Program recognition from Merck CEO, CIO, MRL IT VP.

  • UX Lead & Product Strategist

    2008 - 2011

    Lead Product Strategy & UX Design for version 7 of the Design2Launch system for Consumer Products Packaging & Marketing Materials Management

  • UX Lead

    2009 - 2010

    UX Lead for Merck Intranet - Sync Portal Redesign

  • UX Designer & Researcher

    2007 - 2008

    UX Strategy and Architecture Lead Consultant for Promotional Materials Management Workflow

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