PCMG Award Nominees for 2026
We’re proud to introduce the nominees for the PCMG Awards 2026, recognising excellence, innovation, and impact across the clinical development outsourcing community.
This year marks the introduction of three new awards: Innovation in Outsourcing, Collaboration of the Year, and Outsourcing Trailblazer of the Year, alongside our prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award.
These nominees represent the individuals, teams, and partnerships shaping the future of outsourcing today. Winners will be announced at the PCMG Assembly Dinner on 16th June 2026 in Berlin.
Innovation in Outsourcing Award
Celebrating new solutions that move the industry forward.
The Innovation in Outsourcing Award recognises individuals or teams who have developed a new idea, tool, model, or approach that delivers measurable improvement in clinical outsourcing.
This category recognises standout innovations that are delivering measurable improvements in clinical outsourcing — from new tools and technologies to smarter processes and operating models.
Each nominee has introduced something meaningfully new, helping to modernise how outsourcing is approached and delivering real, tangible value.
Nominees
Sarah Gill
Senior Director RBQM Solutions Monitoring, Caidya
Sarah Gill deserves recognition for her exceptional leadership in delivering a transformative innovation in clinical outsourcing through the company-wide implementation of Risk-Based Quality Management (RBQM). She successfully introduced a unified, cross-functional framework that reshaped how outsourced clinical and data management activities are planned, monitored, and executed.
Tom Lazenby
CEO, Mayet
Tom Lazenby is a clinical trials quality assurance professional turned software founder, and an active contributor to the PCMG community. After years managing audit programmes, quality oversight, and regulatory inspections at GSK, UCL CTUs, and Imperial College London, he found that the tooling available to manage vendor oversight simply wasn’t fit for purpose. So he built his own.
Farrell Healion
Founder & Managing Director, OptiTrial
Outsourcing Trailblazer of the Year
Recognising individuals driving meaningful change today.
This award celebrates individuals who are making a visible impact right now, through bold thinking, leadership, and a willingness to challenge the status quo.
Our nominees are driving change in their organisations and across the industry, inspiring others through their actions, mindset, and results.
Nominees
Barbara Lopez Kunz
CEO, Caidya
Under Barbara’s leadership, Caidya has delivered transformative outcomes for sponsors and patients alike. She spearheaded the development of globally agile trial models, leveraging untapped regions – such as high-performing sites in Asia-Pacific – to accelerate enrollment and reduce timelines, even in rare disease studies. Her emphasis on patient-first design and integrated global frameworks has enabled more inclusive trials, improved recruitment efficiency, and enhanced data quality.
Florence Mowlem
Chief Scientific Officer, uMotif
What makes Flo a true trailblazer is that her influence is current and visible through leadership in a rapidly growing eCOA technology organisation, active participation in cross-industry initiatives shaping standards, and ongoing work helping sponsors modernise their digital outcomes strategies.
