Paula Brown Stafford
CEO
An industry veteran, Ms. Brown Stafford brings to Allucent more than 35 years of industry experience. At Quintiles (now IQVIA), she played a key role in growing its CRO services. As president of their largest business unit delivering Phase I-IV clinical research services, she served in many administrative and operational capacities leading 22,000 employees across 60 countries. In addition, Ms. Stafford was president, CEO and chairman of Novan, Inc., a biotechnology company with commercial assets and a clinical platform. She is also an adjunct professor in Public Health Leadership for the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Among many awards and accolades, Brown Stafford received the 2022 Triangle Business Journal’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Women in Business and was named one of the 10 top women in biotech by FierceBiotech in 2012. In 2016, she was presented with the Distinguished Alumna award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received her Bachelor of Science and Master of Public Health in Biostatistics.