Penny Smee

Director and Senior Product Owner GSK (UK)

Senior Product Owner for GSK in the R&D Tech division with 18 years’ experience in pharmaceutical R&D at Pfizer and GSK. A PhD biochemist by training, I spent 14years in early research high throughput screening/compound profiling before transitioning to IT. In Tech I have supported Cell & Gene Therapy, Biopharmaceutical and New Chemical Entity development, delivering systems for supply chain, high compute analyses and LIMS. Currently I am accountable for a large-scale Development ELN deployment and multiple Lab of the Future initiatives and in 2020 I completed a 5 month secondment as Product Owner to 1 of the UK Lighthouse Lab COVID19 testing centres.