Mr. Schafer joined Industry Standard Research (ISR) in 2010 as President after spending eight years with Quintiles/IQVIA. As President of ISR, Mr. Schafer is responsible for directing syndicated research products, custom market research efforts, and strategic planning. In 2017 ISR was sold to Life Science Connect. While at Quintiles Mr. Schafer was responsible for primary market research activities, leading strategy, functional service provider, and market development activities for data management and biostatistics, corporate new service introduction, and led the North American Corporate Strategy function. Prior to his work in the pharmaceutical industry, Mr. Schafer spent 10+ years in the telecommunications industry at IBM, Nortel Networks, and Caspian Networks focusing on new product development and introduction. Mr. Schafer received undergraduate degrees in Finance and Economics and a MBA in Marketing and Statistics from Syracuse University.