Sr. Executive Assistant - Fortrea - Durham, NC
(2023-03)
Provides exceptional support to the Chief Commercial Officer, Chief Scientific Officer, General Counsel, and Vice President of Operations. Seamless backup support of CEO.
- Manages complex calendars across multiple time zones, ensuring continuity between personal and professional priorities
- Extensive global travel, including itinerary creation, passport, and visa renewals
- Submits expense reports using both Workday and manual submission
- Acts as gatekeeper and liaison between executives and staff, clients, and vendors
- Manages conference attendance for all Commercial staff ensuring correct attendance while minimizing expenses
- Manages client engagers with BDDs which brought in over $300M in 2025
- Interfaces with Board at Fortrea, Duke University, T1D (Juvenile Diabetes Foundation), and Columbia University
- Coordinates high level meetings, bid defenses, and offsite events
- Maintains key external relationships
- Created and implemented an onboarding program for new hires in the Commercial and Consulting organizations
- Backup social media posting across all platforms
- Manages and maintains a corporate newsletter for both the Commercial and Consulting organizations
- Keeps executives up to date on relevant news and events
- Creates and submits purchase orders
- Approves expense reports and IT requests
- Personal duties as needed
- Manages four junior EAs
- Chosen as one of ten people to train company on use of AI
Executive Assistant - Covance/LabCorp - Durham, NC
(2018-02 - 2023-03)
Provided outstanding support to the Chief Information Officer, SVP of Oncology, VP of Client Solutions, and VP of Contracts & Proposals.
- Handled multiple calendars with complicated scheduling across various time zones
- Performed expense management using PeopleSoft
- Managed heavy international travel, including itinerary creation
- Triaged Costing Directors and Proposal Managers
- Created leadership team agendas for weekly meetings and monthly business reviews
- Acted as a liaison between executives, staff, clinical research associates, and vendors
- Implemented monthly meetings for administrative staff including receptionist, EAs, IT, and facilities
Executive Assistant - Richard Ro, MD - New York, NY
(2012-11 - 2018-02)
Provided administrative and personal support to Dr. Richard Ro and his family.
- Managed calendar
- Created and submitted expense reports
- Managed global travel
- Conducted heavy research, submitted prepared findings
- Managed household staff
- Organized personal events and family functions
- Drafted and sent correspondence to clients, Department of Veteran's Affairs, and internal staff
Executive Assistant - Debrah Lee Charatan Realty - New York, NY
(2007-07 - 2012-11)
Provided comprehensive executive and personal support to Debrah Charatan, Owner/CEO of Debrah Lee Charatan Realty, a billion-dollar commercial real estate agency.
- Managed bi-coastal owner/CEO's calendar
- Handled extensive global travel for CEO, clients, and candidates
- Created monthly handouts and one-pagers for prospective clients
- Managed household staff in NYC, the Hamptons, and Los Angeles
- Interfaced with high profile individuals, always maintained discretion and confidentiality
- Approved expense reports
