John Reites
Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer
Corporate intrapreneur turned clinical research entrepreneur with an exit, John Reites is the Co-founder and CEO of THREAD. THREAD is the eClinical technology and scientific consulting company that helped to establish and set the global standard for hybrid decentralized clinical trials (DCT), complex eCOA and digital health technology (DHT) supporting biopharmaceutical sponsors and CROs.
Prior to co-founding THREAD with Jeff Frazier and Sean Vassilaros in 2016*, John spent 14 years at Quintiles (now IQVIA) starting as a clinical assistant after earning his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. During his tenure, he worked in various CRO departments including clinical operations, project management, digital health, consulting, clinical technology and more.
Since 2002, his innovation-focused work is making global clinical trials more digital, inclusive and costs-effective for everyone. His focus today remains the same in supporting biopharma sponsors and CROs with THREAD’s one, fully configurable technology platform and scientific consulting to enable global clinical trials in more than 60 countries and 100 languages.
John also contributes to the clinical research industry as:
- Executive in Residence at Duke University’s Master of Management in Clinical Informatics (MMCi)** supporting the program since 2015
- Inventor with several shared patents in configurable clinical research technology***
- Board of Directors (BoD) member and advisor
- Author of peer-reviewed publications**** and public articles
- Public speaker at 100+ events including SXSW, CES and more
- Leading Inclusion Criteria: a Clinical Research network
Learn more and connect with John:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnreites
Website: https://www.johnreites.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JohnReites
*Story noted in Harvard Business School (HBS) publication in SEP 2023: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=64743
**Duke University (MMCi) website: https://medschool.duke.edu/personnel/john-reites
***Clinical research technology patents:
- System and method for building intuitive clinical trial applications (filed: 17 JUL 2017): USPTO Patient #: 10510438 (issued: 17 DEC 2019)
- System and method for building intuitive clinical trial applications / expanded (filed: 17 JUL 2017): USPTO Patient #: 11791021 (issued: 17 OCT 2023)
- System and method for building intuitive clinical trial applications / expanded (filed: 20 MAR 2020): USPTO Patient #: 12009068 (issued: 11 JUN 2024)
****Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=I3vSNVcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao