Margot Goodwin

I've been in biotech and pharma technology for 18 years. I always had a passion for sciences and actually started out applying to veterinary school. I took a program course to make some money while I was applying to vet school so I could help pay for it, and I got sidetracked by the technology and never went back. My bachelor's degree is in philosophy, but I took a lot of biology and chemistry classes because I wanted to do veterinary medicine. Most of the mentors I found were actually not in my field, but were the people doing the science - chemists in the labs, biologists in the labs, people who are really passionate about the science. I had to learn through their language so I could find the technology solutions that would help them. It was really the community that the technology was serving, rather than the technology itself. What drives me is really the potential to help people. I used to be a part of PerkinElmer, and I always appreciated their tagline, For the Better. I find sciences in every field, it's for the better - cleaner energy, greener things, better patient care, faster drug development for rare diseases. All of these are things that I connect with. My most notable achievement was scaling a professional services team of about 5 people to an over 65-person services team delivering over 25 products, and transforming that entire team from an on-premise services delivery to a cloud-native delivery in less than 4 years.