Governance

Mark Bynens serves as the Director and Head of Scientific Computing Operations (SCO) within the Statistics & Decision Sciences (SDS) sector of Global Development at Johnson & Johnson R&D. With a distinguished career spanning over 19 years in the industry, Mark joined Johnson & Johnson as a full-time employee in 2016. In his pivotal role, he leads his team with dedication and expertise, holding responsibility and accountability for a broad range of critical operations. These include change management, project management, and the comprehensive management of software applications designed for statistical evaluation or business processes. Mark’s leadership extends to spearheading in-classroom and e-learning education initiatives, fostering knowledge sharing, overseeing software/application acquisition, and managing high-performance computing for in-depth data evaluation, simulations, and statistical research. His team is notably engaged in several R platforms, encompassing both non-HPC and HPC (high-performance computing) environments, where they deliver innovative solutions that significantly benefit the business. Previously, Mark was the business lead for the custom-built GxP SCE (statistical computing environment) for releases 1 and 2 at Johnson & Johnson. This project involved a custom-built R-ecosystem, containerized to include Shiny publishing capabilities. His contributions to the field are recognized through his role as one of the main authors of the SCE White Paper, underlining his commitment to advancing statistical computing within the pharmaceutical industry. Through his visionary leadership and technical expertise, Mark Bynens continues to drive significant advancements in scientific computing operations at Johnson & Johnson R&D.

Michael Helbraun is a Principal Architect for Data & AI on Microsoft's Digital Transformation Partnership team, where he works with strategic customers across Latin America. He holds a BS in Geological Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and an MBA focused on Economics and Operations from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Joseph, RStudio’s “Ambassador at Large” to the R Community and editor of the R Views blog, has been focused on promoting the R language and supporting the R Community since he joined Revolution Analytics in 2009. In addition to serving on the R Consortium’s Board of Directors, he is a member of the ISC and administers the R User Group Support Program. In the past, Joseph held technical, marketing, and sales positions with several prominent Silicon Valley startups including, Sytek Inc., Alantec, Parallan Computer and Scotts Valley Instruments as well as with larger organizations including CSC, Agilent Technologies and Microsoft. Joseph is a member of the ASA, and a Life Member of the IEEE. He has experience working with standards committees including the IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD Working Group and the IDEMA PRML technical committee. Joseph studied Classics and Mathematics as an undergraduate at Franklin & Marshall College and earned an M.A. in Humanities and an M.S. in Computational Statistics from the California State University. You can follow him on Twitter as @RStudioJoe.

Hadley is Chief Scientist at RStudio, a member of the R Foundation, and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and the University of Auckland. He builds tools (both computational and cognitive) to make data science easier, faster, and more fun. His work includes packages for data science (the tidyverse: including ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr, purrr, and readr) and principled software development (roxygen2, testthat, devtools). He is also a writer, educator, and speaker promoting the use of R for data science. Learn more on his website, http://hadley.nz.