About Aliri
Aliri is committed to solving industry challenges by bringing innovative bioanalytical and spatial solutions to biotech and pharma, as the complexity of the drug development landscape continues to rise.
Our mission is to support our customers with bringing life-saving therapies to market with speed and agility. We are focused on providing pharma and biotech companies with bioanalytical lab, spatial bioanalysis, and spatial biology solutions that will bring unique, comprehensive data to enable strategic decision making for lead optimization and strengthen regulatory submissions.
Learn more about a vast range of bioanalytical lab, spatial bioanalysis, and spatial biology solutions that will help you advance your molecule from discovery through clinical development and NDA approval, while being backed by a network of technical experts and seasoned scientists.
Across our portfolio, we are committed to bringing strong customer service, scientific leadership, and regulatory excellence, which are all bound to our core values:
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Our Leadership
Kent Payne, PhD
Chief Executive Officer
Kent Payne, Ph.D, is distinguished as a business operator and leader in areas of sales, commercial manufacturing and product development. He has extensive executive experience in M&A as well as successfully running, start up, growth and turn around businesses. This includes both Fortune 500 and Private Equity environments. Kent combines strong business leadership, successful P&L track record, and technical background to strategically lead and grow enterprise value across biotechnology and pharmaceutical market segments from discovery through cGMP commercial manufacturing. In addition to the U.S., he has successfully led the geographic expansion of businesses into Asia, South America and Europe. Kent recently served as CEO for BioDuro-Sundia. He held prior roles at Qualicaps, Catalent Pharma Solutions, Cardinal Health and Novartis.
Jim Wilfahrt
Chief Operating Officer
Jim Wilfahrt, Chief Operating Officer, began his career in the Bioanalytical CRO industry in 1994 with the founding of Tandem Labs. Following the successful establishment of Tandem Labs as a Best-in-Class Bioanalytical CRO provider, Tandem Labs was acquired by Laboratory Corporation of America. Jim continued in his role as General Manager for Tandem Labs operations and LabCorp Vice President through 2016, at which time he assumed the role of Global Head, Bioanalytical for Covance. Jim joined Pyxant Labs as President in 2020 and became Chief Operating Officer in 2022.
Sylvain Chabanier
Chief Financial Officer