Guess the Client
What Japanese pharma company just purchased Shire for over $60 Billion.
Who is Takeda?
This team creates budgets for RFPs and change orders.
What is Commercial Finance?
This was the year PPD was founded by Fred Eshelman.
What is 1985?
What is the name of the Commercial Finance bidding tool?
What is Synergy?
Name PPD’s new CFO.
Who is Chris Scully?
CEO David Simmons joined PPD in 2012 after 15 years with this BioPharma company.
What is Pfizer?
This team leads the creation & negotiation of new rate cards with PPD clients.
What is Strategic Finance?
PPD’s new Change Order process, led by Commercial Finance, takes how many days to complete once specs are agreed with client?
What is 15 business days?
What GP% threshold requires CFO and COO approval?
What is <49.5% ?
PPD entered a Joint venture in 2014 named PPD-SNBL to expand clinical services in which country?
What is Japan?
This former PPD client was sold in 2009 by the former President and founder of PPD.
What is Furiex?
This group accurately tracks and manages the financial implications of business decisions to maximize the cost effectiveness of PPD’s drug development services.
Who is Operations Finance?
This is the minimum standard turnaround time for a new RFP.
What is 10 days?
What Operations Finance tool is used for study forecasting and Resource management?
What is Clarity?
In 2016 PPD purchased this leading provider of evidence-based solutions, that enables our clients to advance the generation and analysis of real-world evidence.
Who is Evidera?
This Korean client requires dual currency contracting where all revenue in NA/APAC/LA is billed in USD and EMEA revenue in EURO
Who is Celltrion?
FSP is the acronym for this term.
What is Functional Service Provider?
In order to work around the clock, this country provides timezone support for Commercial Finance.
What is Bulgaria?
This standard cost increase is currently at 3% annually in North American budgets.
What is inflation?
This PPD Partner company specializes in the identification, recruitment and retention of patients for clinical trials through their network of dedicated research sites.
Who is Synexus?
This BioPharma client has a Biostats FSP book of work, where the detailed budget is client-approved prior to the study being bid by Commercial Finance.
Who is BMS?
This branch of Finance most commonly deals with Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.
What is Government Finance?
What PPD system is used to track deliverable dates and Evidence of Agreement (EOA)?
What is Salesforce?
This preferred metric is used by Corporate Finance to measure annual performance?
What is EBITDA?
PPD owns the exclusive license for the portfolio of patents held by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) related to sequential parallel comparison design (SPCD). This SPCD time and cost reducing methodology has been branded by this name.
What is Trimentum?