Marilyne Labasque

• Launched “Data Stewardship as a Service”, building a maturity matrix assessment, stewardship roles and metrics, and embedding FAIR and data quality practices to ensure trusted, AI-ready R&D data
• Implemented a semantic management solution by delivering an internal ontology related to data activities (Protégé, CENtree) and documenting data quality rules and change control process
• Engaged in Pistoia Alliance working groups on operational change model & FAIR business values
• Partnered with commercial and delivery teams to build RFP responses and bid defenses, shaping proposals and demonstrating the value of governed R&D data alongside eLN/LIMS deployments for early research and CMC
• Mentored a distributed team of 10+ junior stewards and 4 delivery partners across India, Europe and the US

Selected Client Engagements at Zifo

• Top 10 Pharma: defined and delivered business rules and data quality checks for a bio-specimen repository data product hosted on Benchling eLN
• Top 10 Pharma: defined and delivered business rules and governance standards for the MVP of an assay repository data product (Benchling eLN), partnered with digital for its configuration, extended to vaccines R&D, defined biomaterial and target naming conventions, defined ontologies, modelling and ensured quality of CENtree ontology synchronisation, migrated 100+ legacy assays in < 2 months, ensured FAIR-compliant datasets
• Top 5 Pharma: designed and initiated a FAIR data literacy program for 300+ biomedical scientists
• Global Biopharma: defined the data quality standards, rules and checks for LIMS data, co-implemented in Informatica

• Defined requirements for a new R&D Master Data Management (MDM) system (Informatica) and an end-to-end portfolio analytics platform (Power BI) for a Top Ten Pharma Company
• Authored 500+ user stories and UAT scripts (Jira, Confluence) to shape data product backlog
• Collaborated across a global multi-cultural team (India, EU, US) to ensure consistent delivery and adoption

• Defined the strategic roadmap and spearheaded innovation in IoT-based energy analytics and digital twin technology
• Engaged with R&D, IT, and industrial partners to deliver data-driven solutions for Smart Buildings and Mobility