Réne Stephens is a biopharmaceutical research and development industry consultant with over
25 years of business operations and outsourcing experience. He has worked within
pharmaceutical, CRO, SMO, medical imaging, academic CRO, and EDC companies, and private
consultation. Réne understands the critical path of development and has a wealth of experience
in outsourcing/procurement strategies, practices and negotiations, vendor relationship
management, oversight and governance, clinical operations, finance, contracting, process
development and improvement, and technology solutions.

He holds a BA in Corporate &
Organizational Communications (WKU), and an MSHS in Clinical Research Administration (GWU).
While at Astellas Pharma Global Development as Executive Director and global head of Contracts
& Outsourcing, Réne also served as the Global Procurement Lead for TransCelerate Biopharma,
Inc., acting on behalf of and supporting the 20-biopharmaceutical company consortium for
vendor selection, negotiation, and governance.

He is the former moderator for the quarterly
Linking Leaders Outsourcing Roundtable meeting, where current issues are discussed among
development outsourcing heads; and he is a regular speaker at conferences and symposia on
business operations topics as related to drug development, outsourcing, vendor and site
contracting, and oversight/governance. Since 2017, he has been supporting biopharmaceutical
companies in this function as the Managing Member and founder of Renatus Consulting, LLC.