Stephen Pyke, DIC

Stephen Pyke is the Chief Clinical Data & Digital Officer for Parexel, leading and directing the company’s patient data and AI strategies. Stephen is a statistically trained, quantitative thinker with a deep and highly strategic understanding of patient data, drug development and operational delivery.

Prior to joining Parexel, Stephen was Senior Vice President & Development Head, Digital Data & Analytics at GSK. In this role, he led the company’s efforts to rapidly deliver a tech-enabled modernization and innovation program enabling better use of clinical data as well as productivity and efficiency gains to yield a step change in clinical trial cycle acceleration. Previously, he also held a number of senior leadership roles in R&D with GSK and Pfizer.

From 23 July 2024, Stephen joins the Board of the Clinical Research Data Sharing Alliance (CRDSA), a multi-stakeholder consortium that serves the clinical data-sharing ecosystem. He is also currently Chair of the Association of Clinical Research Organization’s (ACRO) AI/ML Committee. During the past 20 years he has also been honored to hold Board positions with several notable professional societies and not-for-profits, including CDISC (Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium; Chair), RSS (Royal Statistical Society; VP) and PSI (Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry; Chair). 

Stephen holds a Master in Statistics from Imperial College London and a Bachelor in Mathematics from the University of York.