Director, Operational Strategy

Marlene Brown, CPM, PMP

Marlene Brown, CPM, PMP

Marlene Brown is the Director, Operational Strategy of Fortrea’s Rare Diseases, Advanced Therapies and Pediatrics Team (RAPT) and Co-Chair of Cell, Gene and Advanced Therapies Tiger Team. She has more than 30 years in pharmaceutical drug development spanning large pharma, emerging biotechs and CROs.

Within the Project Management realm, Marlene has more than 20 years of supporting end-to-end drug development, clinical, regulatory solutions with Phase I-IV clinical and regulatory expertise across multiple therapeutic areas as well as working as a product development team leader. Before she joined Fortrea, Marlene held various roles at Merck, including basic research, QA, regulatory, product-level project management. She has worked in basic research at Sandoz, BOC Group and W. Alton Joes Cell Science Center.