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Joe Schmidt is the executive vice president of Professional Services at Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company. Schmidt leads a global team that supports over 2,000 clients, delivering services from product configuration, ongoing study support, strategic consulting, digital transformations, study management, analytics and platform management.

Schmidt has over 25 years of experience building and leading teams in the clinical research industry, largely focused on technology enabled solutions that help bring better treatments to patients, faster. Schmidt joined Medidata in 2017 supporting enterprise clients and created the patient cloud services team whose focus is supporting mobile, patient facing and decentralized clinical trial solutions.

Schmidt previously served as the chief operating officer of Clinical Ink. Before Clinical Ink, he spent 10 years with MedAvante (now WCG), as executive vice president and general manager, leading the solution development and global expansion activities. Schmidt started his career at Covance working in clinical operations with roles of increasing responsibility. Schmidt has a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Scranton.