Hugh P. Levaux, PhD

Senior Vice President, Strategy and Market Development

hugh.levaux@unitedbiosource.com Hugh Levaux

Hugh P. Levaux, PhD, articulates the overall strategy and growth areas for UBC and supports the development of product offerings that cut across UBC groups and regions.

Dr. Levaux brings to the position 10 years of dedicated experience in clinical trial design and operations. He has held multiple positions in the life sciences focused on post-marketing activities and web-based technologies, notably as Vice President of Product Strategy at Medidata Solutions; CEO of Ninaza, a web-based EDC provider; Vice President and General Manager of the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology practice at CareScience, a supplier of web-based patient database and analysis software; and Senior Vice President at Quintiles Transnational, where he directed international late-phase sales and clinical operations.

Prior to Quintiles, Dr. Levaux worked as an analyst at the RAND Corporation, where he focused on risk assessment in East Asia. Before RAND, he worked in Japan at Matsushita Electric on strategic planning and sales promotion. Fluent in English, French, Spanish and Japanese, he also has limited fluency in Chinese (Mandarin), Italian and Dutch.

His work has been published in leading academic and clinical journals.

Dr. Levaux holds a PhD in policy analysis from the RAND Graduate School and received his Master's degree in international economics and international relations from SAIS at Johns Hopkins University. He also has a Master’s degree in international politics from Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.