Team

Built by people who have done the work.

Altio is built by a team with direct operating experience in pharmacovigilance, clinical systems, and regulatory technology, and the AI architecture experience to put it into production in regulated environments.

Our mission

We help people live longer, healthier lives by enabling better, faster decisions.

Domain expertise

Built from doing the work.

We specialize in Life Sciences R&D: pharmacovigilance, clinical systems, regulatory submissions, and GxP validation. Direct operational experience combined with AI fluency, built from years inside the work.

Leadership

Senior people, hands-on.

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Arvind Bellur

Founder & CEO

A career spanning life sciences R&D and technology transformation. Arvind founded Altio to bring focused, senior expertise to an industry that has been over-served by junior generalists.

Expertise: pharmacovigilance operations, clinical platforms, regulatory technology, and AI-enabled operating-model design at global pharma scale.

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Evren Yucekus-Kissane

Co-founder & CTO

Specializes in machine learning, generative AI, and analytics-platform design, with prior roles at Sanofi and CSL building architectures for scientific use cases.

Expertise: AI/ML system architecture for regulated environments; founded the AI and quantum-computing research program at the University of Maryland.

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Meenal Patwardhan, MD, MHSA

Senior Medical Advisor

Physician leader with over 17 years in the pharmaceutical industry, most recently Vice President in AbbVie's Pharmacovigilance and Patient Safety organization, leading the teams responsible for safety across the full AbbVie portfolio. Previously faculty and Co-Director of the Evidence-based Practice Center at Duke University Medical Center, she brings clinical medicine and evidence-based decision science to drug safety, including one of the industry's early pilots of AI in signal management.

Expertise: clinical trial safety planning and monitoring; signal management and benefit-risk evaluation; global health-authority submissions; evidence-based medicine, with 40+ peer-reviewed publications.

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Daniel Prins

Platform Security Lead

A cybersecurity focus built on an electrical engineering background spanning embedded systems, sensor instrumentation, and applied AI. Daniel builds hardware from the analog front end up and has led electrical integration on autonomous robotics and multi-agent AI systems.

Expertise: Cisco certified in cybersecurity fundamentals, ethical hacking, and cyber threat management, grounded in embedded systems, sensor design, optical instrumentation, and applied machine learning.

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