Executive Team
Dr. Sasi Suda
Founder & CEO
Leadership Team
Seniz Tuysuz
Global Head of Clinical Development
Oranuch Nampaisan
Global Head of Biometrics and Data Management
Linda Bendall
Principal Medical Writer
Dr. Scott Schell
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Schell has over 30 years of experience in clinical oncology, basic science research, patient care, clinical trials, and health technology.
He is also a serial entrepreneur with 5 startups in health-tech, and four successful exits. He has worked extensively with pharma companies on a variety of oncology therapeutics, involved with all stages of development.
In 2014, he assumed the role of CEO for Kew, Inc, a solid-tumor molecular diagnostics company that required a turn-around. After successfully closing a B-round in 2014, reconfiguring the sequencing and analytic platforms, he created several joint ventures including the one with the company’s eventual acquirer.
Dr. Schell has undergraduate, PhD, and MD degrees from the University of Chicago, and MBA from the University of Michigan. He is licensed to practice medicine in Michigan and Ohio, and is Board Certified in Surgery.
Gráinne Gaffney
Global VP Human Resources
Grainne brings over 20 years of Human Resource experience to Grand Pacific CRO. As Global VP HR Grainne is responsible for driving the HR strategy to support our employees across 8 countries across the globe.
Grainne is focused on helping the Organisation offer the very best experiences for employees, and that Grand Pacific CRO’s culture is anchored in our values. She is also committed to promoting employee well-being and supporting an inclusive and diverse workforce.
Grainne is a seasoned executive who deeply knows and understands the ‘People’ part of growing businesses, bringing a refreshing focus to the workplace culture, employee development, and satisfaction
Prior to joining GP CRO, Grainne has experience building successful HR functions for various start-ups and has also held HR Senior Management roles at Deloitte and other institutions such as Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Westpac.
Dr. Sasi Suda
Founder & CEO
Sasi Suda is a medical doctor by training. The past twenty-five years has seen Dr Suda working across a multitude of highly regarded roles as a senior clinical research specialist covering diverse areas including but not limited to regulatory affairs, protocol development and compliance, site management, clinical operations, drug safety and pharmacovigilance.
Dr Suda has held key executive and clinical management roles at Alcon Laboratories, Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals and Avexa Australia which has contributed to her extensive hands on experience in the management of complex trials and programs through all stages.
Dr Suda is known for her tenacity and passion in this field, she plays a role in every trial and forms positive working relationships with all of our clients. Her dedication to every client and patient is one of the key things that makes working with Grand Pacific CRO different.
Seniz Tuysuz
Global Head of Clinical Development
Seniz has over 22 years of experience in Clinical Operations including Global Project Management, Site Management and Line Management of various functions.
She has extensive experience in all stages of project management including full service clinical operations, leading FSP models, customer bid-defense meetings, customer kick-off meetings, budget and finance management, global monitoring and project management, regulatory and study start-up feasibility and also delivering clinical research training.
She has been working in global clinical project management and has coordinated work over several geographic regions: Eastern and Western Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, North and South America; with full regional responsibilities for the clinical service line.
Thidarat Maneemoon
Global Head of Quality Assurance
Thidarat brings over 15 years of Quality Assurance experience to Grand Pacific CRO. As a Global Quality Assurance Director, Thidarat is responsible for driving the quality assurance programs at a global level. Provide direction in support of customer and functional accounts, audit and inspection programs, and quality management systems. Provide insights, analyses, and support in the promotion and assessment of compliance with regulations, guidelines, and operating procedures within the globally assigned.
Thidarat is a pharmacist by education. She has held leadership positions in quality assurance with multinational pharmaceutical companies for a number of years. She has extensive quality assurance experience in both clinical research and marketed products at a global level and a country level. She has been a qualified lead auditor conducting GCP audits including contracted clinical investigator site audits and other GxP audits such as GMP, GDP, GVP and GLP audits for 10 years and hosting client audits, and facilitating a number of regulatory inspections with a satisfactory level of compliance.
Ming Lim
Global Head of Regulatory Affairs
Ming brings over 25 years of experience in Regulatory Affairs management, including strategy development, labelling review and development, dossier authoring/review, regulatory intelligence, CMC technical, regulatory operations, and submissions. As the Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, Ming is responsible for providing regulatory expertise to all GPCRO divisions, securing successful regulatory approvals for our trials and therapeutic products, and developing a highly capable regulatory team. He also assists our clients in managing their regulatory submissions to health authorities including lifecycle management.
Prior to joining Grand Pacific CRO, Ming was the Regulatory Consultant for LEO Pharma and Bayer for Australia and New Zealand markets. He was also the Regional Director for Regulatory CMC Strategy at Pfizer where he led a team of CMC strategists and authors in the Asia Pacific region.
Ming utilises his deep regulatory knowledge and management experience to help advance and make available safe, innovative, and evidence-based medicines to improve people’s quality of life.
Dr. Pranee Krailadsiri
General Manager - Thailand
Dr. Krailadsiri joined Grand Pacific CRO as a General Manager for Thailand. Equipped with diverse roles and experience in the clinical research industry, from medical affairs, medical information, pharmacovigilance, regulatory affairs, compliance, global, regional and local studies phases I-IV.
After spending more than two decades working in clinical research and pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Krailadsiri identifies what truly makes a successful clinical trial and all the medical activities required for the successful launch of a new product.
With her previous experience as Global Medical Adviser, one of Dr. Krailadsiri’s focuses at GPCRP will be solidifying our global clinical trial capacities, by providing internal training and consolidating functions between departments to ensure the expectations of our external clients are exceeded.
Dr. Krailadsiri is equipped with extensive experiences in medical writing and publication, she has authored and co-authored several manuscripts, abstracts and book chapters. She has also engaged and participated in writing and reviewing many clinical and regulatory documents. These documents address the quality, ethics and timeliness of publications that report clinical trial results.
Not only is Dr. Krailadsiri a Medical Doctor, she also holds a PhD in Haematology from the Addenbrooke’s NHS Trust Open University, UK.
Gráinne Gaffney
Global VP Human Resources
Grainne brings over 20 years of Human Resource experience to Grand Pacific CRO. As Global VP HR Grainne is responsible for driving the HR strategy to support our employees across 8 countries across the globe.
Grainne is focused on helping the Organisation offer the very best experiences for employees, and that Grand Pacific CRO’s culture is anchored in our values. She is also committed to promoting employee well-being and supporting an inclusive and diverse workforce.
Grainne is a seasoned executive who deeply knows and understands the ‘People’ part of growing businesses, bringing a refreshing focus to the workplace culture, employee development, and satisfaction
Prior to joining GP CRO, Grainne has experience building successful HR functions for various start-ups and has also held HR Senior Management roles at Deloitte and other institutions such as Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Westpac.
Dr. Tony Yuan
Global Head of Medical Writing
Tony is an experienced pharmaceutical professional with skills in Medicine Information Optimisation, Regulatory Affairs, Sales, and Marketing from global pharmaceutical companies, including Eli Lilly, GSK, Mylan, Phebra, and Pharmaxis. He has wide-ranging experience in writing and developing product Information/SmPC, consumer medicine information/package leaflet, minimum PI, instruction manual, and labelling to ensure a high level of quality, consistency, and compliance with the local and international regulatory requirements. Tony majors in Medical Microbiology & Immunology and Pharmacology and has a Master’s degree in Drug Development/Pharmaceutical Medicine. Due to his passion for medical writing, he has also pursued a PhD in developing and optimising written medicine information for prescription medicines.
Tony is responsible for providing medical writing expertise and oversight to all medical writing documents for GPCRO, such as manuscript, clinical trial protocol, participant information consent form, investigator’s brochure, pharmacy manual, and clinical study report in alignment with the requirements of GCP and ICH guidance. He utilises his experience and skills to positively impact project deliverables, develop scopes, bring innovation, build excellent relationships with internal and external stakeholders, and provide critical thinking to all aspects of planning and executing.
Oranuch Nampaisan
Global Head of Biometrics and Data Management
Oranuch is a Biostatistician with 20 years experience in data management and statistical analysis in the public health and clinical research sectors.
At Grand Pacific CRO she is Head of Biometrics and Data Management. Her responsibilities are to drive and supervise the company’s biometrics activities. This includes supervision of all statistical and programming activities as well as data management and analysis.
Linda Bendall
Principal Medical Writer