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Evan Ballantyne joined Clinical Data as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in August 2006. Prior to that, Mr. Ballantyne was most recently Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ZymeQuest, Inc., a medical technology company based in Beverly, Massachusetts, and previously was the Chief Financial Officer of Knowledge Impact, of Wayland, Massachusetts. Earlier, Mr. Ballantyne was a vice president and chief operating officer for ACNielsen Corporation and held the chief financial officer position as well for 2 years. There, he was responsible for all aspects of operations, strategic planning and finance in more than 45 countries for a corporation with 9,700 employees and annual revenue exceeding $650 million. At ACNielsen, he drove productivity gains and cost savings activities totaling $27.5 million while holding expenses flat with the prior year and helped develop new revenue opportunities while implementing a cross-border sales tracking system. He also helped lead the company's successful ISO certification in three countries. Mr. Ballantyne also held an audit position for Dun & Bradstreet, earned a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario, and took a post-graduate degree in Business Administration with Honors from the University of Windsor. | 