Executive Bios
Chris Skura • CEO
Chris Skura is the CEO of Skura Corporation as well as Skura BI Group. His responsibilities for both companies include company vision, business development and building partnerships with leading companies worldwide. He has established Skura as a global leader in the pharmaceutical technology market and continues to ensure the company builds the solutions necessary to succeed in these times of rapid change. Prior to founding Skura Corporation in 1996, Chris was in sales operations at Bayer Inc.
Jeff Wessinger • President
As President, Jeff’s responsibilities include business development, product conceptualization and direction, and the implementation of alliances with leading companies worldwide. He has helped establish Skura as a thought leader in Pharmaceutical CLM technologies. Prior to joining Skura, Jeff was General Manager of Life Sciences Products at Oracle Corporation and has held senior Management, Product Development and Product Marketing roles in the industry.
Eric Richardson • VP, Alliances
Eric’s background includes a unique combination of senior management, finance and consulting experience. Eric has held a number of senior management positions during his tenure at Skura which has included responsibility for Skura’s Project Management Office as well as responsibility for Skura’s Finance and Administration department. Prior to joining Skura, Eric worked as an Engineering Consultant at Honeywell Limited.
Kent Potts • VP Marketing
Kent is a talented and accomplished Marketing and Business Development leader with proven expertise in marketing strategy, product marketing, sales channel management and new business development in the highly competitive consumer products environment. Kent’s previous work experience includes The Walt Disney Company where his role focused on developing ways to continually bring innovation to the Disney Consumer Products division.
Aaron Norfolk • Vice President Industry Solutions
Aaron is focused on product conceptualization, direction, and innovation with the objective to create both customer satisfaction and market leading software. His primary responsibilities include translating customer, competitive, and market requirements into product vision. Aaron has been instrumental in the innovation and creation of the leading software development platform in the CLM industry. He has played a leading role in application development, global CRM and data warehousing implementations, and the establishment of the product development division.
Gordan Bakalar • CTO
Gordan is the creator of SCP (Skura Connectivity Platform), a Service-Oriented software platform used in Skura for developing all new product lines. As the corporate CTO, his major responsibility is technology R&D for current and future business needs. Gordan is also responsible for system architecture and design across all corporate products. He is the major proponent of Service-Oriented architectures, distributed and loosely coupled systems. Prior to Skura, Gordan worked in senior roles for multiple software companies as software architect or design consultant.
Aleksandra Ilic • Vice President, Customer Advocacy & Strategic Planning
Aleksandra leads the Customer Advocacy team responsible for delivering strategic management of Skura client engagements and developing strong client relationships. In addition, she develops strategic planning processes, performs in-depth market and industry analysis, researches complex issues and works on solutions to help drive company performance.
In her previous role as Director, PMO & QM, Aleksandra ensured continuous improvements in productivity, quality and, ultimately revenue through well managed projects and enhanced processes. Aleksandra has been involved with almost every aspect of our software development, professional services consulting and executive management.
Greg Harbin • Director, Business Development
Greg Harbin is Director of Business Development with Skura and has made content meet customers for 9 years. With technical sales /account management experience, he is responsible for developing customer relationships and managing accounts all over the world. Greg has been implementing CRM and Closed Loop Marketing solutions for most of his career. Greg’s involvement in all of our SFX Suite partnerships provides him with a strong understanding of the Life Sciences industry and proven best practices in areas such as; CLM, targeting and segmentation, CRM, Business Process, Account Management, and Marketing automation.
