Maria Palombini

Leader, Healthcare Life Sciences Practice - IEEE Standards Association

As the practice lead, Maria is focused on recruiting a global community of multi-disciplinary stakeholders to openly collaborate and develop solutions to enable trust in and validation of breakthrough technologies/applications that will provide sustainable and universal quality of care, privacy and protection for all individuals.

Before joining the IEEE SA, Maria founded DisruptiveRx™ Media, the first information company to bring awareness in opportunities and challenges in the use of blockchain/DLTs in the pharmaceutical value chain. Maria’s professional highlights include brand and communications leader for one of the world’s largest mining investment platforms in Africa, and bringing innovative communication and information products to global markets and various industries including financial, pharma, natural resources, and telecommunications.

 Maria currently holds an MBA from the Rutgers Graduate School of Business and a BA and BS from Rutgers College at Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey.