Richard Golob is the co-founder and CEO of Quantori, Inc., one of the world’s leading data sciences and AI transformation service companies for the life science and healthcare sectors. Previously, he served as Global Head of Life Sciences at EPAM Systems, a publicly traded firm with more than 60,000 professionals worldwide. Richard joined EPAM through its acquisition of GGA Software Systems, a scientific informatics outsourcing company that Richard co-founded and where he served as CEO.

Earlier in his career, Richard was actively involved in the environmental and energy fields, serving as an adviser to government agencies worldwide and to the United Nations Environment Programme, as well as a publisher of respected environmental newsletters. He also served as an environmental industry adviser to the venture capital firm Charles River Ventures and as chairman of the Harvard Environmental Health Council at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Richard was president of the United Nations Association of Greater Boston from 2006 to 2017. Currently, he serves as a member of the Leadership Board of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and as a board member of the United Nations Association of Greater Boston, the International Institute of New England, and the Anti-Defamation League – New England. In addition, he is a member of the National Finance Committee of the Democratic National Committee, president of the Puchovichi Holocaust Memorial Park Project, and an adviser to Making Peace Visible. He received his A.B. degree in biochemical sciences from Harvard College.