"Site success impacts everyone in research" is the mission that drives Sean and his team as Vice President of Business Partnerships for SCRS. With more than 15 years experience in clinical business development and a background in association management, Sean works to connect sponsors, CROs and solution providers within the SCRS community.

As Greenphire’s Chief Commercial Officer, Wayne is responsible for the global commercial strategy of the rapidly growing organization, including the execution of sales and marketing programs. Wayne is a proven strategic sales executive with more than 25 years of commercial experience in technology and life science industries.

Prior to joining Greenphire in 2016, Wayne served in numerous senior leadership roles at Advanced Health Media (AHM), a leading global provider of SaaS-based solutions designed to manage compliant interactions with healthcare professionals and organizations for the highly-regulated life sciences industry. During his tenure, Wayne helped establish AHM as the market leader, playing an integral role in the organization’s 1500 percent revenue growth during a four-year period, with continued global expansion thereafter. Earlier in his career, Wayne gained sales leadership and industry experience
at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) and Brent International. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University.

Wayne resides in the Philadelphia area with his wife and four children. When not tending to business matters, Wayne is a dedicated coach and active spectator of his children’s sporting events, and also enjoys playing golf and entertaining friends.

Dr. Dirkes was an Anesthesiologist for 15 years before going into hospital administration. He began his career in clinical research as the Chief Operating Officer for Goodwyn IRB. Subsequently, he started a research site in multiple physician offices in Cincinnati. As part of that venture, he developed and implemented DocuTrial, which is a simple to adopt and simple to use system that allows sites to become not just paper-less but paper free.