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PARAGON BIOMEDICAL: A PROUD HISTORY

Paragon Biomedical, Inc. was founded in 1989. The company's early successes resulted from a strategy still in effect today: Hire the best, most experienced staff in the industry, regardless of location, and provide a customized approach to the key aspects of clinical trial management, data management, and biostatistics.

Our vision: To make a difference in the world through our passionate pursuit of improved healthcare.

This founding business model has continuously enhanced our corporate mission to provide the safest, most well-run and cost-effective clinical trials in the industry. Over time, we've expanded our scope of services to include Project Management, Study Planning and Feasibility, Site Recruitment and Support, Site Monitoring, Medical Monitoring, Data Capture and Management, Data Analysis, Clinical Study Reports, Regulatory Compliance and Safety Surveillance. We grew from industry player to industry leader in key therapeutic areas that include cardiovascular, central nervous systems, infectious disease, oncology and general medicine.

Our mission: To deliver exceptionalclinical trial management services to our partners in the healthcare industry.

In the past two decades, we also expanded our worldwide reach by establishing offices in Poland, the UK, and India. This enabled us to deliver expertise, services and resources through global clinical and project management teams experienced in local customs, culture, language, and regulations. It also provided high enrolling sites in low-cost environments.

Our values: Integrity, teamwork, diversity, and life balance in a learning, rewarding and fun environment.

Because of such carefully considered and decentralized growth, Paragon is now strategically located and large enough to manage any clinical trial, yet still agile enough to offer leading-edge drug development, statistical analysis and medical research services with a client- centric personal touch.

Paragon today

Our full-service offerings, strategic global presence, and risk mitigation have been the driver behind our success, and the success of our clients, over the past two decades. We've continuously improved our processes and training. We've created an exceptional technology infrastructure and systems that perfectly complement our commitment to project excellence.

We've implemented extensive metrics to track performance, and we share all critical information (including financial) through an internal Open Book Management system. Employees are also rewarded for their success through a unique Results Sharing Program. As a result, the company has evolved into a thriving organization.

Over the years, Paragon has been recognized through numerous awards, such as founder Gena Reed's 2005 Remarkable Business Woman of the Year Award from the Orange County chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). Paragon's founders have continued to support the company's unique culture by creating an open environment in our corporate offices and a results sharing program for all employees.

Moving forward, we continue our commitment to our two main constituencies: our customers and our associates. This means constantly looking for ways to improve our services, attract the best and brightest clinical research professionals, and deliver excellence on every project.

Our ongoing goal: exceptional clinical insight and data accuracy

Choosing not to rest on past successes, we consider peerless quality, on-time delivery, and strict budgets to be the minimum standard. We are careful to back our words with an intensive, company-wide focus on safe, expertly managed trials.

The benefit to you:

  • Project continuity resulting from our low turnover and the best clinical research and project management talent in the business.
  • Unparalleled qualityand consistency, thanks to systems in place that support our corporate goal of project excellence, not to mention our rigorous clinical standards, proactive approach, peerless data operations, and fully scalable data management.
  • Responsiveness: Our talented, decentralized workforce is available to provide exceptional customer service around the clock. Our continuous communication ensures minimal scope changes, providing a cost benefit to our customers.
  • Innovation: Our in-house development team provides a continuous supply of industry-leading tools, such as our proprietary Project Simulator and Project Web Portal. Our company-wide appetite for the best possible operational model helps us deliver on our promise of vital insight and exceptional performance.

Therapeutic expertise

Rather than knowing a little about a lot, Paragon continues to deepen its therapeutic expertise in a number of key areas:

  • Cardiovascular
  • Central Nervous System
  • Infectious Disease
  • Oncology

We'll continue building our knowledge in these specialties, while judiciously eyeing future areas of focus.

Global capabilities, geographic expertise

Paragon's strategic global locations provide our clients with country-specific expertise, access to demographically diverse patient populations, and the efficiency to meet aggressive enrollment timelines.

Paragon's worldwide office locations:
  • Irvine, California, USA
  • Marlow, United Kingdom
  • Kerala, India
  • Warsaw, Poland

A culture focused on diversity

From the beginning, Paragon has been dedicated to maintaining a corporate culture based on equal opportunity, diversity and life balance. Women now constitute the majority of our entire workforce, including half the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) positions. In 2003, Paragon was certified by two organizations'the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) and the Women's Enterprise Business National Council (WEBNC)'as a Woman-Owned Business. This designation has, in turn, continually benefits our sponsor's own diversity initiatives.