Quintiles.com

  • Richard Thomas

    Chief Information Officer

    RichardThomasAs Chief Information Officer (CIO), Richard is responsible for leveraging technology to grow Quintiles business around the world. With an extensive portfolio of innovative internal and customer solutions, he is responsible for the company’s global technology strategy, development, operations and all aspects of IT. Richard is based at Quintiles’ global headquarters in Durham, North Carolina, USA. 

    A 25 year veteran of the technology industry, Richard joined Quintiles in 2005, serving as Chief Technology Officer until being named CIO in 2010. He has played a key role transforming Quintiles’ technology group into a growth engine which has gone on to receive numerous industry accolades and patents for innovation and is recognized as one of the best places to work in IT. In 2011, Quintiles was named the #1 technology innovator across the pharmaceutical industry in the prestigious InformationWeek 500 technology innovators rankings, and #4 across all industries. Quintiles was also named to Computerworld magazine’s “100 Best Places to Work in IT” list for a third time. 

    Before joining Quintiles, Richard held increasingly senior leadership positions across a variety of industries including technology, marketing information, financial services and aerospace/defense. Most recently he served as Executive Vice President and CIO for Telephia, Inc. in San Francisco, a startup which went on to become the world leader in marketing information and benchmarking for the mobile consumer and wireless industry. 

    Prior to Telephia, Richard was Vice President, Global Systems at Nielsen; the world’s largest consumer and media marketing information company where he delivered award winning technology and innovative analytics products to retail and consumer package goods companies around the world. 

    Richard holds an honors degree in Computer Science from the University of Glamorgan, UK. He also serves on several boards/committees.