Richard Gastineau is the new chief operating officer and general counsel at Y Prime, Inc., a premier eClinical products and consulting company in Malvern.

Gastineau will lead key business operations including finance, revenue reporting, sales, legal affairs and human resources.

An attorney and accomplished entrepreneur, Gastineau brings to Y Prime more than 20 years of progressive success in business, financial and commercial leadership. His record includes the launch and development of several highly successful healthcare companies.

Y-Prime said the firm will lean on his experience with venture funding and corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning and corporate development, joint ventures and strategic alliances, corporate operations, and legal and financial management.

Gastineau co-founded Beacon Bioscience Inc., a leading clinical research organization in the medical imaging field. He was the company’s president and general counsel until it was acquired by global clinical research giant ICON, Plc. He also co-founded Intelligent Imaging Inc., a multinational pharmaceutical research company which was sold to Quintiles International.

Gastineau is also a founding partner of Valley Road Ventures, LLC, a business incubator and management consulting company.

“There are great things happening at Y-Prime,” said Gastineau. “There is an undeniable energy here that begins with best-in-class people creating best-in-class technologies. Our solutions are on the leading edge of this industry, and they are a reflection of the innovative minds that are building them.”

Gastineau also said he hopes to build the firm’s momentum tenfold by developing new solutions to make it easier for clinical researchers to get the most accurate data possible and get it in house efficiently and quickly.

Links:   www.y-prime.com