Samir Shah serves as PRA Health Sciences’ Chief Operating Officer of the Strategic Solutions division. Offering years of significant industry experience, he is responsible for this division’s global operations, strategy and business functions. Mr. Shah joined the legacy RPS organization at its inception in 2000 before it was acquired by PRA in 2013. He was one of the key pioneers in the development and maturation of the Embedded sourcing model, creating market differentiation in the biopharmaceutical life science space. Mr. Shah’s expertise includes strategic sourcing, change management and optimizing effective governance and operating structures. Prior to joining our team, Mr. Shah held various positions across clinical operations and business enablement in the biopharmaceutical industry at US Bioscience and Zeneca Pharmaceuticals and in the CRO sector at Theorom Clinical Research (formerly Biopharm/IBAH Clinical Services) and Parexel. In addition, Mr. Shah has served as a research scientist at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in the Department of Psychiatry. He has a BS degree from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

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