Greenphire Appoints Dave Espenshade as Vice President, Contract Research Organization Partnerships

Proven industry executive to lead Greenphire’s Contract Research Organization (CRO) partner strategy  

King of Prussia, PA – January 10, 2017 – Greenphire, the global leader in clinical payment solutions, announced today that it has appointed Dave Espenshade to the role of Vice President, CRO Partnerships. Dave brings more than two decades of experience in the software and life science industries and a demonstrated expertise in establishing successful partnerships between software providers and CRO businesses.

“An increasing number of CROs are recognizing the opportunity to improve their payment processes through the use of Greenphire’s clinical payment automation solutions– enabling them to more effectively serve sponsors, sites and patients,” said Jim Murphy, CEO of Greenphire. “Dave’s experience and proven ability to collaborate with the CRO industry will help us expand our partnerships with global CROs and further support our commitment to eliminating unnecessary administration in the clinical trial payment processes.”

In his role as Greenphire’s Vice President of CRO Partnerships, Dave will lead efforts to broaden the use of Greenphire’s solution suite among global CRO partners. Greenphire is currently working with eight of the top 10 global CROs and continues to see an increased demand for both its investigator payment solution, eClinicalGPS, and patient reimbursement solution, ClinCard, within this sector.

“The opportunity for CROs to partner with Greenphire to automate a very cumbersome, error prone and time consuming process is tremendous,” said Dave Espenshade, VP of CRO Partnerships for Greenphire. “I am excited to join the Greenphire commercial leadership team and look forward to applying my experience  with building empowered CRO collaborations to this role.”

Dave has a proven ability to successfully establish strategic collaborations between industry leading global CROs and software providers. Earlier in his career, Dave held several senior leadership sales positions at IntraLinks, YPrime, and ePharmaSolutions.

About Greenphire 

Greenphire is the leader in global clinical trial payment solutions. Greenphire’s best-in-class solutions optimize clinical trial performance by simplifying and streamlining payment processes from sponsors and CROs to sites and patients. Greenphire’s ClinCard and eClinicalGPS solutions easily handle any type of trial design and complexity, resulting in more accurate and compliant payments globally for both sites and patients. The choice of industry leaders worldwide, Greenphire provides better performance and better data, resulting in better trials. Learn more at www.greenphire.com.