Mr. Brian Ellerman, Tucson SIS Site Head, Sanofi-Aventis

Brian Ellerman holds a bachelor’s degree with honors from Marist College in Medical Technology (1994) and a master’s degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona (2000). He is currently pursuing a PhD in Organization and Management, with an emphasis on Leadership, at Capella University.

Brian’s professional career began in clinical pathology, working for numerous hospitals, physicians, and reference laboratories in New York, Los Angeles, and Tucson over a period of 6 years. During this time, he started P³ Computers, a computer sales and repair business that gradually grew into a second company, Pacharimay, focused on IT consulting.

In August of 1999, he stepped down as senior medical technologist for clinical chemistry at St. Mary’s Hospital, merged the two companies he owned into a new entity, Siesta Consulting, and completed the prototype of an electronic medical record and patient scheduling system for care-provider offices. That fall, Brian architected the development of the system into a commercial product, and Siesta Software was born. The venture was short-lived, however, due to the impending implementation of HIPAA, so Brian sold the product and company to a larger competitor and returned to consulting full-time.

In February of 2000, he took on the role of Strategic Solutions Architect for Maddenmedia, a Web solutions developer. While there, he led the development of an intranet portal for a Fortune 500 company and architected a new business venture in online banking. The following year, he moved to Sunquest Information Systems, soon to become Misys Healthcare Systems, where he served as Implementation Manager for the company’s clinical laboratory product. During that time, Brian successfully led a division initiative to reduce implementation time by 25% while also managing the largest ever contract for laboratory systems in the U.S.

In the fall of 2002, Brian joined Aventis as a consultant, and was hired as an associate the following year. As program manager with what is now Sanofi-Aventis, the third largest pharmaceutical company in the world, Brian directs the Scientific Computing and Information Program. His responsibilities include championing the strategic use of information, finding innovative approaches to analyzing and interpreting data, ensuring the support of local and global scientific applications, and managing a diverse portfolio of informational projects that greatly impact the company’s pursuit of novel therapeutic compounds.