Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, Former Presidential Envoy to Iraq, Presents Unique Leadership Challenges Keynote at Partnerships with CROs.

NEW YORK -- The 14th Annual Partnerships(TM) with CROs conference team announced that they have secured Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, former Presidential Envoy to Iraq, to deliver the April 6 opening keynote address at this year's event, being held at the Adam's Mark Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas.

Ambassador Bremer's experience as one of the world's foremost experts on leading in a challenging environment during a period of change, gives him an exceptional perspective on leadership challenges. Event Director Pam Sobotka noted, "We feel that Ambassador Bremer's experiences make him uniquely qualified to address pharmaceutical industry leaders about how he approached enormous challenge as part of a team that overcame opposition to bring about change."

Event Co-Chair Christopher Gallen, MD, PhD, President and CEO of Neuromed Technologies Inc., remarked, "It is an honor to have Ambassador Bremer share with us his personal and professional experiences in the face of conflict, physical risk and resistance. We can all draw from the valuable lessons of Ambassador Bremer's ability to confront the facts, articulate a message, rally people of good will and influence people outside your scope of control in order to execute changes key to driving renewal."

About Partnerships with CROs

Partnerships with CROs & Other Outsourcing Providers is organized by the Institute for International Research (IIR), the world's largest conference company. For 13 years running, IIR has provided a knowledge-led networking forum for the CRO industry where senior professionals from outsourcing and clinical groups at pharmaceutical and biotech companies, CROs, niche providers and investigative sites convene to maximize clinical development partnerships.

The event attracts over 1,200 influential professionals from the U.S. and abroad each year and has held strong to an emphasis of presenting best practices in creating, managing and sustaining clinical outsourcing partnerships. The conference focuses on real strategies for turning clinical outsourcing partnerships into strategic alliances within the ever-evolving Pharma/CRO environment. The success of the forum is due to its dynamic structure that includes varied and non-traditional networking and learning opportunities, led by a speaking faculty of over 150 industry experts. Through panel and group discussions, six concurrent tracks, interactive voting, nine pre-event in-depth workshops, lunch-and-learn roundtables and networking breaks and receptions, participants are exposed to different perspectives and have several venues from which to gain value from the event. For registration information, visit www.cropartners.com or call 888-670-8200.