Strategists
Our experienced leadership team provides you with insights to help you define your strategy, from a business, financial, regulatory, and operational perspective.
We are a strategy and management firm helping organizations succeed in the clinical research industry. We support clinical research leaders in strategic and financial planning, regulatory compliance, and the optimization of business and research operations.
If we are unsure how to proceed or don’t have the talent on our own team, we are going to call Objective for help in planning, strategy, project management and supplier management.
Operations Director, Major Software Company
The fundamental driver in founding Objective Clinical was to bring together the deep CRO Development and Management experience of Colleen Hoke with the extensive Operations Management, Supplier Management and Consulting experience of Steven Hoke.
We believed that with the ongoing consolidation of hospitals and physician practices, there would be great opportunity to provide services to help clients develop capabilities that leverage their business, through efficient and effective research initiatives.
We employ a “roll up our sleeves” approach where we actively work to help our clients to achieve clinical research capabilities and improve their ongoing research programs.
How can Objective Clinical help you build a custom framework of processes, people, and technology?
We’ve developed a clinical research blueprint: this is our approach to meet your needs and build cost effective, highly productive and compliant research programs. Find out more here.
We combine a seasoned leadership team with a curated pool of talents to lead your projects.
Planners
We help you implement proven business development techniques and business operations processes with minimal disruption or distraction for your team.
Navigators
Our clinical research specialists help you manage your projects on site or remotely. They are an extension of your team providing operational and tactical support.
Steve Hoke
President & COO
Steve has more than 35 years of vendor management, outsourcing, strategy, project management and consulting/staffing experience in the aerospace, software, and customer service industries at companies such as Boeing (outsourced manufacturing), Microsoft(outsourced manufacturing, customer support and fulfillment), Hyper Quality (quality assurance monitoring), The Develin Group (operations consulting) and Vega Consulting (business operations). He has extensive international business experience in Europe and Asia and lived and worked in Sydney Australia for a year while at Microsoft. Over the last 10 years, Steve established a successful consulting company, The Develin Group in 2004. Develin provided outsourcing strategy, vendor management, project and program management services. Develin merged with Vega in July of 2010 where Steve continued as a Principal in the firm through September of 2014. In prior roles, Steve held management positions in domestic and International operations at Boeing and Microsoft. He was the Operations VP for Hyper Quality, a startup that offered call center quality assurance services. He was the founder and CEO of Develin and a Principal at Vega Consulting.
Steve received a B.A in Economics, from The University of Washington.
Colleen Hoke
CEO
Colleeen founded Augeo in 2014 after serving in senior executive and leadership positions for Clinical Research Organizations and healthcare companies over 25 years. She helped build the nation’s largest public, advanced cancer clinical trials network, including oversight of case management, customer service and national contracting functions and one of the largest single site clinical pharmacology research unit in North America (250 beds) as well as a specialized European site (62 beds).
Experience in global business development for a generics formulation Clinical Research Organization with strong ties to India as well as a business officer oversight for a highly specialized, fast growth biomarker lab. She has served as a committee member for International Business Communications on their Speakers Board for healthcare administration topics, as a Biotechnology Advisory Member for Bates Technical College in Tacoma Washington, a Board of Director member for Seattle’s Children’s Home and now as an advisor to CirQuest Labs and Co-Chair of the BGA Parent Association.
Colleen is a graduate of University of Tennessee, College of Business.
Extended Team
Planners & Navigators
We rely on a curated pool of talents to build a custom team around your specific needs. Each of our team member has more than 10 years experience in the following fields:
- Management control
- Budgeting
- Contracting
- Financial compliance
- Clinical research compliance
- Health Data compliance
- Project management
- Outsourcing
- Software development and implementation
- Clinical research systems implementation
- IT support