Gina Risdall

Associate Director Clinical Operations @Arcus Biosciences

Provides strategic operational guidance to ensure trials are properly defined, planned, and executed across all clinical stage programs. • Contributes to the development of clinical asset life cycle and clinical development plans and establishes the operational plan for a new program or study including scenario planning, high level forecasting of timelines, assessment of program level feasibility, estimation of resources and budget based on internal/external benchmarks, and development of high-level operational strategies. Communicates initial budget, timelines, and changes to internal or external governance as appropriate. • Provides proactive innovative and flexible operational solutions and options for the CDP. • Participates in licensing/ partnership assessment as needed, providing strategic input as well as operational elements in terms of costs, resources, and timelines. • Accountable for meeting all operational deliverables in accordance with time, cost, and quality commitments. Maintains internal consistency across studies within a program and in alignment with functional standards across programs. • Contributes to asset management and program management across Disease Area Teams and/or Product Strategy Team as the Clinical Operations lead. • Provides program guidance to matrix teams within Clinical Operations by providing program specific guidance, clinical trial management expertise, operational strategies, and direction to achieve results. • Mentors and guides Clinical Operations staff. Provides timely feedback to functional managers regarding staffing needs and team member performance in the program. • May represent Operations or take a stakeholder role in company/function initiatives and regularly contribute to the optimization of existing as well as the development of new processes and resources. • Responsible for line management and career development of Clinical Operations staff (Clinical Program Managers, Clinical Trial Managers, etc.)