Ms Sullivan has more than 30 years of experience, in health care and in clinical research, helping organizations optimize processes to improve financial and quality outcomes. She is the founder and served as the Executive Director of the Metrics Champion Consortium, a crossindustry collaboration dedicated to developing standardized performance metrics for sponsors, CROs and investigative sites to oversee and manage studies, identify improvement areas and assess process improvement opportunities. A well known speaker at performance metrics, Quality by Design, risk based quality management and clinical trial oversight meetings, Linda has published extensively in leading journals, hosted the Clinical Trial Optimization Podcast Show, and served on industry advisory boards including the NIH-NCATS Methods and Process Domain Task Force. Ms Sullivan received her BS in Biology from Trinity College and her MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth where she was named a Tuck Scholar.