Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Wardle’s current responsibilities include operational leadership for this full service early and late phase CRO.  He has 29 years of progressive and diverse leadership responsibility in pharmaceutical R&D and healthcare, with 23 years in the clinical contract research industry. He has held several senior management positions in rapid-growth entrepreneurial companies, including leadership of business development, operations, project management and financial management. Prior to WCT, Mr. Wardle was senior Vice President of clinical operations for a large CRO. He has worked with Dr. Cutler for 17 of the last 23 years and was the Vice President of clinical operations for WCT in the late 1990s.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Wardle was responsible for operations management of a large multi-specialty clinical trial investigator site with locations in California, U.S. and London, England. While there, he was responsible for supervising more than 300 clinical trials in CNS, endocrinology, cardiovascular and infectious diseases. Mr. Wardle holds degrees in Exercise Physiology (B.S.) from Brigham Young University, Kinesiology (M.S.) from University of California Los Angeles, and Business (M.B.A) from Rutgers University.