Emmes, a US-based global, full-service Clinical Research Organisation (CRO), announced on Thursday that it has named Kristin Judge as its new chief growth officer.

In the new role, Judge will head business development and all sales support activities, including inside sales and proposal development, and will support both public sector and biopharma groups.

Judge has served as the head of CRO and clinical data management systems sales at Veeva Systems. She has headed a global sales team at Labcorp Drug Development and started her career at PPD, where she gained clinical operations and sales experience.