Hal Stern

VP & CIO, R&D The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson

Hal Stern is the VP and CIO of Janssen R&D, where his team designs and delivers end to end systems to support discovery, early development, clinical development, regulatory, safety and quality processes. He works closely the R&D senior leadership team to deliver technology strategies that fuel the continued discovery and product development of medicines. Hal was also the acting co-CTO for Accumulus Synergy, an industry consortium redefining regulatory submission systems. Hal has strong interests in data science, non-traditional and applied computing techniques, security, privacy, large-scale networking and intellectual property management and policies. He is a member of the Open Source Working Group and co-sponsor of the ASIA Employee Resource Group. Hal joined Janssen from Merck & Company, where he was AVP, Merck Research Labs Engineering. Before joining Merck, Hal had a 25 year career in the technology industry, with variety of software and services leadership positions at Juniper Networks, Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems. He is co-inventor on 11 United States patents in the areas of networking, security and user experience and co-author of three technical books: “Managing NFS & NIS” (O’Reilly), “Blueprints for High Availability” (Wiley) and “Professional WordPress: Design and Development” (Wrox/Wiley). Hal holds a BSE in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University, and he serves on the graduate board of the Colonial Club of Princeton, on the advisory board of Sympatic, and as a board member of the NJ Devils Youth Hockey club. Hal and his wife Toby have two adult children, and outside of work he plays the bass guitar, coaches Under-8 Mite ice hockey, and enjoys live music, photography, cooking, reading and travel