Richie Bavasso

Mr. Bavasso is one of the early pioneers of use of digital media, devices and the web as tools to support pharmaceutical sales and marketing strategies and tactics. Since 1999, he has worked with top 25 Pharma clients globally to introduce the Closed Loop Marketing (CLM) function. He has set procedure and precedent in the areas of sales force effectiveness, business-rule driven content management, multichannel marketing, and mobile technology. A frequent speaker at industry conferences and events, Mr. Bavasso serves as an advocate for the industry in promoting digital conversation as integral to the various enterprise functions within pharma and the medical community. Prior to his seven years as co-founder and President of Exploria SPS, Mr. Bavasso served for sixteen years as CEO of Pharmedica Holdings, LLC, and President of its INFLUENT Division, at the time one of the largest medical education companies in the world. He built Pharmedica holdings from its start as a meetings planning company in 1992, doubling its revenues each year until its sale in 2001. This growth included an ACCME accredited entity (Center for Medical Education, LLC), a digital content division (Influent, LLC), and a call center (ContextMedicus, LLC). He opened offices in California, Connecticut, Illinois, and North Carolina. After his three-year earn out, Bavasso partnered to co-found Exploria SPS, LLC, as the mobile devices division of Exploria, Inc. Within three years, Exploria SPS became the market leader for CLM with offices in Connecticut and France and currently licenses software in 33 countries and 18 languages. Mr. Bavasso’s introduction of CLM and subsequent influence over the growth and expansion of CLM globally led to his recognition in 2007, by PharmaVoice magazine as one of the top 100 most influential people in pharma. Foreseeing the trends in Pharma that have impacted its selling model and the changing influence dynamic of payors on prescribing, Mr. Bavasso incubated a new and disruptive concept meant to serve as the transaction-fed, new marketplace for healthcare. This led to the incorporation of RIMEDIO, Inc. in October 2012 intent on reshaping the dynamic of how healthcare interacts and transacts to achieve mutual stakeholder objectives. RIMEDIO leverages the power of social utilities with eCommerce, content management and communications tools to consummate transactions between healthcare stakeholders. He is currently co-founder and CEO of nQ Medical, Inc., a machine learning computational biomarker company leveraging keyboard data to manage neuromotor diseases. Everyone has a unique typing signature. Research has revealed that the way we interact with computers and mobile devices can reveal with startling accuracy the presence of certain neuro-motor diseases. This Massachusetts Institute of Technology discovered/Michael J. Fox Foundation validated artificial intelligence tool (neuroQWERTY) has opened a broad opportunity to better diagnose diseases, track disease progression, and monitor medication effectiveness and symptoms. Mr. Bavasso is also a licensed hospital administrator having served from 1981 to 1992 leading two health care systems in New England. A graduate of Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration, he received his MBA in health care management and finance from Bryant University, Smithfield, RI.