With a passion for people, innovation and simplicity, Samar T. Noor brings over 18 years of experience in leadership, vision and technical knowledge. She currently holds and has held multiple roles in technical leadership, most recently heading Statistical Programming and Technologies at Bristol Myers Squibb, focusing on innovation, automation and building high performing teams.  Prior to this, as Head, Data Management and Clinical Development Standards at Johnson and Johnson. While at Johnson & Johnson, Samar led organizational transformation in Data Management, Statistical Programming and Clinical Development Standards, realizing 80% reusability of standards, increasing consistency and quality while reducing total cost of operational delivery. Samar introduced analytical innovation as a discipline as well as design thinking in process improvement.

Prior to the role at Johnson & Johnson, Samar worked for Novartis Pharmaceuticals, serving as Head of Data Analytics and Process Improvement in the Oncology division. In this role, she was accountable to drive the data warehousing and data analytics solutions for the Oncology division. In addition, she was accountable for business operations, process improvement and quality across BioStatistics, Statistical Programming and Data Management. While at Novartis, she also spearheaded the technology and processes integration workstream in the GSK Oncology acquisition. 

Samar holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Time away from work is spent with her three daughters (11, 10 and 22 months) and her husband.