Faith Haines Kolb

President and Chief Operating Officer Statistics & Data Corporation (SDC)

Last Reviewed: September 28, 2026

Executive Summary

Faith Haines Kolb is President and Chief Operating Officer of Statistics & Data Corporation (SDC), a Tempe, Arizona contract research organisation that provides biostatistics, clinical data management and related technology to drug, biologic and device developers from pre-IND through NDA approval. She was promoted to the role in May 2025 after more than eight years at the company. Her career has been spent almost entirely in the data side of clinical research: fourteen years at Parexel International, where she rose to Director of Clinical IT, followed by clinical data services leadership and then the Chief Technical Officer role at the publicly reporting CRO Averion International.

Career Highlights

• President and Chief Operating Officer of SDC since May 2025, working alongside Chairman and CEO Richard Abelson.
• Joined SDC more than eight years before her promotion and was credited with driving internal alignment, delivery excellence and scalable infrastructure.
• Chief Technical Officer of Averion International Corp. from August 2006 to November 2007.
• Director and then Senior Director of Clinical Data Services at Averion from 2003 to 2006.
• Held various positions at Parexel International from 1989 to 2003, including Director, Clinical IT.
• Bachelor of Arts, Clark University.

Professional Journey

Kolb began her career in 1989 at Parexel International, the global clinical research organisation, where she worked for fourteen years in a series of roles that included Director of Clinical IT.

In 2003 she joined Averion, a Southborough, Massachusetts CRO, as Director and later Senior Director of Clinical Data Services. In August 2006 she was appointed Chief Technical Officer, one of the executive officers named in Averion’s SEC filings, and held that role until November 2007.

She later joined Statistics & Data Corporation, a biometrics-focused CRO. SDC’s stated aim is to combine statistical and data management expertise with proprietary technology, including its SDC Sidekick AI tools, to shorten study start-up and improve delivery. In May 2025 the company promoted her to President and Chief Operating Officer, with responsibility for strategy, operations and delivery. CEO Richard Abelson described the promotion as “a testament to the strength and growing maturity of the broader SDC management team”, and Kolb said she was honoured to lead an organisation “truly redefining clinical data services through both people and technology”. The priorities set out with the appointment were advancing SDC’s proprietary technology, improving operational efficiency and study start-up timelines, and strengthening client service.

Education

Clark University

Bachelor of Arts