Bruce Lotier

Managing Partner/Founder

For Bruce Lotier—having spent nearly 30 years in various positions at Merck & Co., the last as Executive Director of Strategy and Planning—it was time to take his expertise and move beyond the confines of one (albeit global) organization. In 2009, Bruce founded TransAccel Group.

Top areas of expertise

  • Innovation
  • Business & IT Strategy
  • Planning
  • Portfolio Management
  • Program Management
  • Service Management
  • Enterprise Architecture
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Bruce is intensely interested in the interplay between people, process, and technology, and what makes organizations work—or not work. His extensive résumé is a testament to this, encompassing an expertise in organizational modeling, the integration of shared service organizations, and the structuring and management of IT investment and project portfolios.

Among many, but not all career initiatives and responsibilities, Bruce has

  • Developed and put in place operational governance processes for master data management, records management, portfolio investment management, and sourcing.
  • Led frequent “change initiatives” across several internal organizations including HR, Finance, IS and Legal.
  • While stationed in Brussels as Senior Director/CTO of Technical Services, implemented the first Pan-European Clinical Development Network in the pharmaceutical industry, comprising 14 European locations as well as Australia, Hong Kong and New Zealand. Following this, he built the first real IT shared services across Europe and, later, business shared services.
  • Led a team that built the first laptop-based sales force automation and head office system in Pharma, and developed and implemented the first end-to-end clinical and regulatory capture-to-submission system in Pharma.
  • Piloted the creation of an Information Management Services application that captured data concerning everything from policies, ownership, retention schedules and MDM though archiving.
  • Led the Commercial Innovation team that built the first iPhone Healthcare Application offered on the iTunes App Store for personal care management.
  • Worked with a coalition of companies, healthcare advocates, and insurers to build Microsoft Healthvault, a web-based platform that is still in use today.

Since 2009, Bruce and his TransAccel Group team of professionals have successfully helped clients to redefine how they work to work better and meet
their business objectives.