Testimonials - The Effective Statistician

I learnt a number of rules for how to present data in more powerful ways from Alexander’s Data Visualisation hands-on course. Great mix of theory and practice.

Octa Consulting Services Ltd, Nelson Kinnersley, Founder and Director

Alex is a master of translating medical scientific questions into statistical frameworks enabling meaningful answers. He is an great teacher with the ability to make complex subjects accessible to other functions especially via his expertise in data visualization.

Elisabeth Riedl, Dermatologist

Being of the approach that science can look interesting, it was refreshing to meet Alexander!
Collaborating with Alexander was very simple, easy and seamless, true partnership and co-creation. With high attention to detail, medical accuracy and scientific correctness.
I can’t recommend enough working with Alexander, it’s a wonderful experience!

I worked with Alexander on launching a new compound and he was a very reliable partner who I fully trusted in terms of his statistical guidance. He has a deep understanding about launching new products and works effectively in leading statistical teams to maximize the value of data. His excellent communication skills combined with his passion for helping patients make him a brilliant business partner and an asset in working with key opinion leaders.

Lotus Mallbris, Senior Vice President, Clinical/Product Developement and Medical Affairs – Immunology | Cultivation High-Performance Teams | Developing Future Leaders

I had the pleasure to work together with Alexander for almost 14 years on multiple projects in the pharmaceutical industry. Alexander has not only a profound technical experience as statistician. His innovative mindset and his high intellectual capacity paired with a genuine interest in grasping new knowledge have been instrumental to overcome obstacles and to achieve common goals in a very successful way. Alexander was widely recognized for the quality of his work, internally and externally, not only for his scientific rigor, but also for his talent to partner successfully with external experts when using innovative approaches to better visualize clinical data aiming to make them easier to understand and thereby to show the value they can bring. I have always enjoyed working with Alexander and I wish him all the best on his journey.

Eli Lilly, Dr. med. Stefan Wilhelm, Associate Vice President-Medical

Alexander and I worked together at Eli Lilly. He supported our HTA team as statistician in various access critical activities as Network Meta-Analyses, Economic modelling and Real World Evidence development. I always admired his drive, positive presence and can-do attitude. He paired knowledge & scientific rigor with elegant solutions and creativity. Since he had a well versed HTA understanding, his approaches were guided by what customer needed rather than internally focussed process satisfaction. Beyond that he was a good friend and team player. I can full heartedly recommend Alexander as an expert in biostatistics in support of HTA.

Eli Lilly and Company, Michael Happich, Sr Director HTA, Interantional Markets

Yesterday I attended a very informative (and highly enjoyable) workshop on data visualisation lead by Alex Schacht. I learned a lot about how to present data both to inform an audience and ensure that key take aways are appreciated and understood. If you get a chance to attend one of these workshops grab it!

Penelope Ward, Medical advice for drug/device/diagnostic development and licensing

Alexander has an amazing ability to use data to generate important insights that can really impact product development that translate into improved patient outcomes. He is able to engage and communicate with key
thought leaders and to build effective collaborations.
Andrew Hotchkiss

Draupnir Bio, Andrew Hotchkiss, Chief Executive Officer

Alex is an exceptionally talented data scientist who has a gift for finding simple solutions to communicate complex statistical concepts. When I worked with Alex at Eli Lilly, Alex and his team helped me to better understand important nuances of our clinical trial statistical analysis plans and he developed cutting-edge data visualisation solutions to help communicate the value of our clinical data to Health Care Professionals.

AbbVie, Toby Kent, Head of Medical Affairs Oncology

Alexander and his team tremendously helped to understand and communicate data for a new psoriasis treatment. He was always open and receptive to clinicians’ inputs, managed to implement them and excelled in improving the communication of data analysis results to non-statisticians. I highly recommend working with him.

H Santa i Sant Pau. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, Luis Puig, Director, Dermato

Alexander manages to make statistics come alive.
With innovative ideas, he conveys complex relationships easily and comprehensibly to everyone. His way of working left deep impressions and it was an enrichment to work with him.

Stephanie Süss, Senior Advice, Medical Affairs Immunology

Working with Alex was always a pleasure as he is an exception when it comes to translating statistics into actionable insights for the business. He ermerges himself deep enough into the business to understand what is needed and takes non-statisticians along in his answers. He is very creative and non-dogmatic in his methods which was very impactful when working on benefit dossiers together.

Eli Lilly, Lisa Menne, Assoc. Director Business Analytics ASG

It was always a great pleasure to work with Alexander. With his profound experience, creativity, positive thinking and can-do attitude he is helping to translate medical details with scientific accuracy to make them easier to understand. With his excellent communication skills he is appreciated internally and externally, while working with him is true partnership and co-creation.

Dr. Anke Leutz, International PRA, New Product Planning and Business Development

As an MSL in neuroscience, I worked closely and confidently with Alexander on difficult statistical questions, but also on different perspectives on study data and interpretations of results. He also supported the Lilly MSL team with statistical training, as psychiatric questions in publications increasingly involved statistical subtleties and selectivity, but needed to be explained validly in context

Matthias Fürst-Zechendorff, Independent Medical Science Liaison Consultant CNS

Alexander is a senior expert project statistician with a broad view and thus able to incorporate clinical, operational and general program aspects into setting up the best way to plan and perform statistical analyses for clinical trials. He has worked in several indications and study phases and is able to communicate with medical, safety and medical writing team members in a clear and understandable way. He also very interested in new and innovative methodology that can be used to improve the statistical assessment of clinical trials and can therefore help in speeding up and leaning up clinical development processes.

Merck Healthcare KGaA, Thomas Wagner, Director Medical Writing, non-Oncology

When working with Alexander a few years ago at Lilly I was impressed by his deep understanding not only of stats, of course, but of the business in general and also of market access and reimbursement. Furthermore, I have gotten to know Alexander as a very committed business partner, always trying to find innovative ways of thinking, breaking down barriers to get to a solution as efficiently as possible.
I sincerely recommend Alexander as a dedicated, engaged partner with deep expertise in various areas of pharmaceutical business.

Eli Lilly and Company, Petra Streit, Global PRA Consultant Immunology

Alexander and I worked together at Eli Lilly and Company supporting the launch of an immunology drug. I was responsible for publication strategy and planning and he was the lead statistician supporting the work of medical affairs. I have very fond memories of our time working together because Alexander was a brilliant statistician but also an extremely effective communicator, especially for the non-statistician! He was a generous collaborator, always willing to share his knowledge, time and talent, and he was a gracious colleague, never seeking center stage or accolades for his accomplishments. His focus was always on the work and the team, not himself. I can honestly say that I learned to be a better collaborator from working with Alexander and following his example. I also learned to be a better supervisor by watching him effectively and quietly redirect the spotlight to those who most needed it. Finally, Alexander was fun! I always enjoyed seeing him at conferences, sharing a good meal with a nice glass of wine or good beer after a long day. Alexander is exactly the kind of colleague you want — brilliant, innovative, gracious, generous and fun. I highly recommend him for any position lucky enough to have him.

Eli Lilly and Company, Diane Stothard, Sr. Director – Publication Strategy and Launch Capabilities

Alexander has the abilty to translate stats into the language physicians understand (not a given for many statisticians :)) This coupled with data visualization made him a preferred partner in ad Boards and internal project teams – highly appreciated by advisors and colleagues!

Eli Lilly and Company, Monika Kurzawa, MD, Medical Advisor