James Booker
Vice President, Commercial Operations
James Booker leads Atorus Research’s global commercial organization, partnering with biopharma sponsors to design outsourcing and technology solutions that fit the way their programs actually run. He oversees business development, marketing, and go-to-market strategy.
James joined Atorus in 2020 as its seventh employee and built the company’s commercial function from the ground up. Since then, Atorus has grown into a trusted partner to sponsors of every size, including many of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. He has been central to shaping Atorus’s functional service provider (FSP) and technology-enabled service models, and to building the strategic SaaS and eClinical partnerships that set the company’s offering apart.
James brings more than two decades of clinical research experience spanning FSP and full-service CRO business development, eClinical technology, and clinical operations. Before Atorus, he held business development leadership roles at Covance/Chiltern/Theorem Clinical Research, Clinipace, and Merge Healthcare, with a track record of building and growing major sponsor accounts. He began his career in eClinical and IRT project delivery, giving him a hands-on understanding of how technology supports trial execution.