RURO announced today that Stephen Ferrell CISA CRISC, formerly Vice President of Product Strategy at ByteGrid, will join RURO as its Chief Compliance Officer.

Stephen’s background ensures that he will contribute valuable leadership to the company and also benefit RURO’s growing portfolio of products and services. Prior to his most recent position, Ferrell directed governance, risk and compliance at ByteGrid, led Global IT Compliance at Thermo Fisher, IT PMO and Compliance at Premier Research. He held further software quality roles at QIAGEN, Digene, and other east coast US-based life science organizations. Earlier in Stephen’s career, he performed extensive consulting work with cGMP Validation, LLC and has provided his services to the FDA and other legislative bodies on Cloud and other software related compliance.

“Stephen is a great addition to the RURO team. Throughout his career, he has shown the values that are at the heart of RURO’s mission,” said Tom Dolan, RURO’s CEO. “Stephen’s dedication to quality and to the creation of efficiency are both core to the manner in which RURO serves its customers. We are excited to see the many ways that he will help RURO make ‘good software that works’ become the norm in life science and medicine.”

“RURO’s Cloud delivered solutions are transforming labs all over the globe. To be able be a part of that story is a privilege and I look forward to helping the RURO team further the mission,” said Stephen Ferrell. “Combining patient safety and regulatory compliance with lab efficiency and automation has always been my objective and it is refreshing to have found a software company delivering those same enablements to labs every day.”

Stephen’s role at RURO will be invaluable as the company continues to advance and expand into new disciplines.

About RURO, Inc.
Founded in 2006, RURO specializes in Laboratory Information Management and RFID Solutions. Limfinity® is the laboratory software platform used in many of the world’s leading research programs, clinical operations and biobanks. RURO is third party ISO 9001 certified.

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