Our vision is to be the most customer-centric CRO on earth. We are conscious that our customers look for ways to accelerate trial execution. So we deliver on our vision by delivering faster, smarter, scientific and affordable solutions.

We work vigorously to design patient- and PI-centric trials, to reduce the trial delivery timelines and costs and to drive smarter decision-making processes through data insights. Pivotal was born and raised in 2001 surrounded by an environment of high scientific tenure and drive. Our founder, Dr. Ibrahim Farr, launched Pivotal to share and implement scientific strategies and best project practices that make clinical trials more efficient and maximize our client’s drug development programs’ value chain.

As a company with some 200 employees and operating in more than 20 countries we have built focused specialization across all therapeutic areas and founded a strong innovative therapies and early phases hub that enables us to tackle our customers most difficult challenges. After almost 22 years of hands-on experience, we master clinical research.

Pivotal has forged an aspirational vision of a digitally and data-enabled, growth-oriented future. We dive deep into clinical trials by leveraging our near real time advanced insights platform. We discover data-driven insights to anticipate trial risks and predict their impact. This has made us an efficient, agile and resilient company, very focused on our customers. We are a technology-savvy organization.

Our approach to clinical research can be summarized in our Innovative Organizational Model: connected with the clinical research and technology ecosystem, scientifically, medically data-driven, agile and customer-centric.


  • Area of Activity
  • Clinical trials
  • Drug discovery
  • Drug development
  • Drug Delivery
  • Quality control
  • Consultancy
  • Bioinformatics
  • Company type
  • Health Biotechnology
  • Services and consulting for biotech sector
  • Technology Services
Office
Gobelas 19
Madrid, Madrid 28023, ES
P: +34 91 708 1250
F:+34 91 708 1301

Lead the firm is our mission of delivering cost-effective and accelerated development solutions.


Pivotal has assembled a strong leadership team that combines unrivaled operational expertise and management experience with a global background. Pivotal’s leadership team contributes to managing growth and direction of the company and is highly committed to the company’s long-term goal and to foster Pivotal’s entrepreneurial culture.


Dr. Ibrahim Farr
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
MD, PhD, FFPM (UK)


Dr. José Javier García
Deputy General Manager & VP Data Management and Biostatistics
MD


Dr. Lourdes Huarte
VP Clinical Operations
MPharm, PHD, MBA


Ms Lidia Farr
VP Corporate Development & Finance
MSc Engineering


Dr. Ernesto Estefanía
Internal Medicine Medical Director and Head of Pharmacovigilance
MD


Dr. Elisa Galvez, Medical Director, Oncology and Hemato-Oncology Director

  • Project Management
  • Study Start-Up & Regulatory
  • Patient Journey, Recruitment and Retention
  • Clinical Trial Monitoring
  • Medical Services
  • Pharmacovigilance
  • Data Science
  • Biostatistics
  • Quality Assurance & Compliance
  • Decentralized Trials
    • Our multi-specialty medical staff is the backbone of every trial conducted since they bring in-depth therapeutic expertise and strategic advice into the drug development programmes
    • Our senior management is approachable and directly involved in the clinical studies to help achieve more predictable deliverables
    • Our operational team is energetic, client-oriented and deeply knowledgeable in managing and executing clinical trials and studies at the highest quality standards
    • Our target is to deliver cost-effective solutions for our clients and not overburden them with the challenging overhead costs

    Biotechs and Pharma Cos, medical devices, nutrition and others