Get to know Diligent

Diligent Pharma is a trusted Quality and Compliance organization in the clinical trial space. We connect Sponsors and Vendors on a secure platform that streamlines Vendor discovery, qualification, and management—delivering faster study start-up, increased efficiency, and higher quality and compliance for everyone involved. 

What Makes Diligent Different 

Simplified by technology, strengthened by expertise

Diligent Pharma is addressing industry-wide challenges in clinical trials with our purpose-built platform, centralized compliance data, and subject matter experts.

Diligent Pharma is addressing industry-wide challenges in clinical trials with our purpose-built platform, centralized compliance data, and subject matter experts.

OUR MiSSION

We're enabling greater quality, compliance, and efficiency in Sponsor-Vendor partnerships so life-saving treatments can reach patients faster.

Our story in numbers

Diligent by the numbers

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WHO WE ARE

Meet our team

Our team brings deep, hands-on experience at the intersection of clinical trial quality, risk management, and digital innovation. With expertise in GCP standards and technology development, we deliver the rigor and pioneering perspective needed to help our clients stay compliant and navigate today’s evolving research landscape. 

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Patty Leuchten

CEO and Founder

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Patty Leuchten

CEO and Founder

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Patty Leuchten

CEO and Founder

Patricia Leuchten is the Founder and CEO of Diligent Pharma. Patricia has over 30 years of experience as a business owner and entrepreneur in the pharmaceutical industry with a focus on change management and innovation in clinical trial execution. At Diligent, she’s leading efforts to drive innovation in quality and compliance practices while transforming and streamlining Vendor risk management. Before founding Diligent Pharma, she established The Avoca Group, a pioneering Life Sciences consulting firm, which has since been acquired by WCG Clinical.

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Anthea Dransfield

Head of Quality

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Anthea Dransfield

Head of Quality

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Anthea Dransfield

Head of Quality

With over 30 years in the pharmaceutical industry, Anthea has held various operational and quality leadership roles, covering cGMP, clinical site operations, technical validation, and GxP quality oversight. Anthea advocates for risk-based, compliance-focused approaches and leverages technology to enhance quality processes.

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Chris Sallemi

Chief Technology Officer & Head of Innovation Lab

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Chris Sallemi

Chief Technology Officer & Head of Innovation Lab

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Chris Sallemi

Chief Technology Officer & Head of Innovation Lab

20+ years of technology leadership experience in the defense, financial services, and pharma industries. Chris has a proven track record in delivering modern cloud-based, secure, beautifully crafted, and responsive software products. Prior to Diligent Pharma, Chris was the CTO at STP Investments Services for over 13 years and previously a Senior Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin.

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Greg Bell, CPA

Head of Finance & Administration

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Greg Bell, CPA

Head of Finance & Administration

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Greg Bell, CPA

Head of Finance & Administration

30+ years as a Senior Financial Executive for healthcare, technology and financial services companies, including 15+ years in leadership roles for SaaS-based software companies. Most recently, he served as Chief Operating Officer at EREflow.

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Dan Lynn, MBA

Head of Product Strategy

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Dan Lynn, MBA

Head of Product Strategy

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Dan Lynn, MBA

Head of Product Strategy

A pharma industry leader and entrepreneur with a focus on driving improvements in clinical trial execution, at scale, through innovative solutions. In 1999, she founded The Avoca Group, whose Avoca Quality Consortium paved the way for Diligent Pharma and the Diligent Qualification Platform.

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Syed Mujitaba

Director of Product Development

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Syed Mujitaba

Director of Product Development

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Syed Mujitaba

Director of Product Development

Syed is an experienced senior leader in technology and software development, with two decades of expertise in overseeing technical operations, driving product innovation, and shaping software architecture.

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Peter Haessig

Head of Client Partnerships

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Peter Haessig

Head of Client Partnerships

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Peter Haessig

Head of Client Partnerships

Peter Haessig heads Diligent Pharma’s commercial organization, uniting strategy and execution to drive scale. He is passionate about early-stage technology, and has steered the company’s growth from Series A revenue to inclusion on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing private companies in the USA.

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Catie Roland

Senior Director, Client Success

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Catie Roland

Senior Director, Client Success

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Catie Roland

Senior Director, Client Success

Leveraging a diverse industry background spanning Clinical Resourcing, CROs, and eClinical Technologies, Catie brings expertise in leading project management teams, optimizing the client experience, and enhancing operational efficiency. She currently leads Diligent’s Client Success and Delivery team.

Meet our board

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Patty Leuchten

Chair of the Board

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Patty Leuchten

Chair of the Board

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Patty Leuchten

Chair of the Board

Patricia Leuchten is the Founder and CEO of Diligent Pharma. Patricia has over 30 years of experience as a business owner and entrepreneur in the pharmaceutical industry with a focus on change management and innovation in clinical trial execution. At Diligent, she’s leading efforts to drive innovation in quality and compliance practices while transforming and streamlining Vendor risk management. Before founding Diligent Pharma, she established The Avoca Group, a pioneering Life Sciences consulting firm, which has since been acquired by WCG Clinical.

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Todd Johnson

Board Member

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Todd Johnson

Board Member

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Todd Johnson

Board Member

Todd Johnson spent over 20 years in various leadership roles with early-stage healthcare companies, including founding and serving as CEO of HealthTech Corp. a cardiovascular services company that merged with MedCath Inc., where Todd served on the leadership team through the company going public and later being sold to KKR and Welsh Carson. Todd later co-founded and served as Managing Partner of KeraNetics, a life sciences company that spun out of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Todd received a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from Wake Forest University.

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Coleen Glessner

Board Member

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Coleen Glessner

Board Member

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Coleen Glessner

Board Member

Coleen Glessner is Executive Vice President and Chief Quality, Compliance & Risk Officer at Emergent BioSolutions, overseeing global quality, ethics and compliance, and enterprise risk management. She brings extensive global experience across the biopharmaceutical industry, with deep expertise in highly regulated clinical and commercial environments; and, is recognized for leading large-scale organizational transformations and complex regulatory remediation initiatives. Previously, Coleen held senior leadership roles at Pfizer and served as Chief Quality Officer at Alexion Pharmaceuticals. She holds a BS from the University of Pittsburgh and an MBA from MIT.

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