About Us

Laimonas Sutkus is an IT infrastructure specialist experienced in both programming and IT team coordination. Before joining Biomapas, Laimonas was working as a chief technology officer in a company iDenfy. He has experience in creating and maintaining cloud-based platforms, working with artificial intelligence models and teams, coordinating the IT department, and ensuring high IT infrastructure security standards. Laimonas is working daily with cutting-edge technologies to ensure IT efficiency and security.

Sebastien Duval has over 20 years of experience in the life science industry. Sebastien Duval graduated from the University of Poitiers with a specialization in Pharmacology and HEC Paris International Business school with an MBA degree. Since 2000 he started to work in the life science industry concentrating on business development and management of clinical drug development. As a business development professional, Sebastien Duval has in-depth experience in pre-clinical, bioanalytical, clinical Phase I and Phases II-IV trials within pharma and biotech companies. Before joining Biomapas, Sebastien was acting as VP Sales Account Management at IQVIA, and further back in his career working as VP Business Development at Synteract, Executive Director, Global Head of Clinical Phase II-IV Business Development at QPS and as VP European Business Development at Premier Research.

Jolanta has almost 20 years of HR management and Organizational Development practice in leadership positions of various international, local and public companies. She is experienced in building an organizational culture that supports business, creating effective people management, developing internal communication strategies, connecting all HR practices to a meaningful system, helping to close the distances between various team members and creating a great high performing team. Before joining Biomapas Jolanta Diskaitė was Head of Organizational Development at Vilniaus vandenys, where she was responsible for Organizational culture, HR, Office administration & Labor Safety.

Regina Auskalniene is a Medical Doctor, cardiologist. She has over 13 years experience in Clinical Research gained in the world-largest CRO IQVIA working in different roles like Line Manager for CRAs and CTAs in the Baltic region, Sub-regional Lead for Europe for the Large Scale Functional Resourcing leading Managers in many European countries and having direct interface with the business partners- major global pharma companies, member of IQVIA Global Functional resourcing Leadership team. In the last role as a Global Operational Excellence Lead Regina was responsible for the global operational processes.
Beyond the responsibilities of her professional roles, Regina was a member of IQVIA Women Inspired Network, member of the IQVIA Training Board, Mentor for the junior colleagues in South Africa, Balkans, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Nordics and was a Mentee of several IQVIA executives, has participated in many initiatives within IQVIA and in partnership with pharma companies.
Since Apr 2018 in CRO Biomapas Regina is leading Clinical Operations department, overseeing Clinical Monitoring, Project Management and Start-up activities in the region.

Olga Bernardova has over a decade of regulatory affairs experience, since 2005, she works in the life science industry concentrating on regulatory affairs and management of the life cycle for medicinal products. As a proven leader in regulatory affairs, Olga Bernardova has in-depth experience at regional and international level regulatory activities guidance and implementation. Before joining Biomapas, she was acting as Associate Director for Europe at ProductLife Group, and further back in her career working as Coordinator for Central Europe and the Baltics at Kohne Pharma, Regulatory Affairs and Pharmacovigilance Manager at Lundbeck, Associate Regulatory Affairs Manager at Gilead Sciences, Junior Regulatory Manager at Bayer and as Regulatory Affairs Officer at UMC.

Martijn van de Leur has over a decade of experience in pharmacovigilance and drug safety field. Martijn van de Leur graduated from RadBoud University with a specialization in Pathobiology and Oncology. Since 2005, he started to work in the life science industry concentrating in pharmacovigilance area. As a senior leader in pharmacovigilance and experienced (Deputy) EU QPPV, Martijn has a broad network within the industry and is a known industry speaker with excellent experience in drug safety. Before joining Biomapas, he was acting as Global Head of Drug Safety at Vifor Pharma, and further back in his career working as Pharmacovigilance Lead at Merck.

Ramune Rukiene joined Biomapas as Director Regulatory Affairs to further strengthen continued growth and geographic extension of Biomapas. Ramune graduated from Vilnius University with a speciality in Microbiology. Since 1999, she works in the regulatory affairs area. Ramune Rukienė is a regulatory professional with 20 years of experience in the regulation of biosimilars and biologics. Before joining Biomapas, Ramune was working in Teva as Global Regulatory Lead for biosimilar drug product and Global CMC Regulatory Lead for another biological product. Along with these activities, Ramune was Head of Regulatory Affairs at Sicor Biotech Vilnius manufacturing site for biotech products, where she supported manufacturing operations with regulatory supervision and was developing a strategy for CMC submissions. Moreover, Ramune has 10 years of experience working in R&D in the area of biotechnology, leading biosynthesis of rDNA technology-based protein products. Her professional expertise extends to leading MAAs in EU, Japan, Australia, Canada and the US.

Oleg Kungurtsev joined Biomapas as Manager Clinical Operations in Ukraine office. He has over 17 years of experience in the Clinical Research industry. Oleg has started as a CRA at mid-size CRO and rapidly moved to a Project Manager position. Before joining Biomapas Oleg worked for a Global CRO, ICON, as a Senior Clinical Trial Manager for Clinical Operations Team. Oleg has graduated from St. Petersburg Medical Institute of Hygiene and Sanitation, qualified as a Medical Doctor.