Until his retirement in May 2025, Thomas Pike served as the Chairman and CEO of Fortrea (Nasdaq: FTRE) since its launch as an independent company in July 2023. Tom joined the organization as President and CEO in January 2023 during Fortrea’s spinoff from its parent company, Labcorp (NYSE: LH).
Tom served as CEO and a member of the Board of Directors of Quintiles Transnational Holdings, Inc., a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical services company offering clinical, commercial and consulting solutions worldwide, from April 2012 until its merger with IMS Health in 2016 to create IQVIA (NYSE: IQV). He also led Quintiles through a successful public offering and helped it grow into a Fortune 500 company. Under Tom’s leadership, Quintiles was named one of the world’s Most Ethical Companies in 2016. He retired in 2016 after Quintiles’ merger with IMS Health.
Prior to Quintiles, Tom spent 22 years at Accenture (NYSE: ACN), a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations, until 2009. At Accenture, Tom’s roles included serving as Chief Risk Officer and Managing Director of the North America Health and Products business areas. Prior to that, he was the global Chief Operating Officer for Accenture’s Resources operating group and had also served as Accenture’s Chief Strategy Officer.
After leaving Accenture in 2009 and until joining Quintiles in 2012, Tom was involved with a number of start-ups in the technology and healthcare sectors. Early in his career, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Company.
Tom earned his Bachelor of Science in accounting from the University of Delaware.
