About Us

Bonnie Keithis the Founder of Recherche Transformation Rapide, a small business with focus on sustainable business organization and compliant operational and research protocol transformation.  She is a strategic thought leader and author with 35 years of operations and supply management experience. Her book, Strategic Sourcing in the New Economy Harnassing the Potential of Sourcing Business Models for Modern Procurement, 2015, offers amazing guidance and powerful tools for any organization.  She has provided successful strategic business input to a variety of companies and has designed effective global procurement and supply management organizations.  She is an Executive Coach for leading companies and has trained all levels of resources worldwide.  She has served in Corporate Executive and Officer positions for three Fortune 100 companies and two Fortune 500 Companies covering the restaurant industry, retail, manufactured products, global distribution, consumer products and services, pharmaceutical and defense and aerospace.  In these roles she provided Procurement/Supply Management strategies that made significant financial contribution to shareholder value. She was a member of the White House Year 2000 Advisory Council for the Pharmaceutical Industry and has been recognized in theWall Street Journal, Corporate Finance Magazineand Drug Store News.  She has published thought leadership White Papers and has contributed to business textbooks and key Supply Management publications. Bonnie is a Faculty Member at the University of Tennessee Center for Executive Education. She is an Advisory Board Member to Vested Outsourcing Inc. Bonnie’s business experience includes Operations and Supply Management assignments with General Electric Company, Asea Brown Boveri, Ltd., PepsiCo/Tricon, Amerisource/Bergen and American Standard Companies.  She holds a BSBA and MSA Organizational Design.

 Erika Stevens is a principal located in New York. Prior to joining RTR, Erika led research transformation advisory services for seven years in management consulting firms. In this capacity, she advised life sciences, AMCs, hospitals and health systems process improvement initiatives for productivity, quality and efficiency in operations, cross-functional relationships, administration, manufacturing and compliance. Her regulatory knowledge and quality oversight of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) includes, but is not limited to, GMP, GLP and GCP. Ms. Stevens has over 20 years of research/ R&D experience, including over 12 years in research management serving in roles such as Senior Managing Director, Director Clinical Trials Office, Director of Clinical Research, Interim Executive Director, Clinical Trials Office and Director of Research Operations. Ms. Stevens is the immediate past president of the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) New York Metropolitan Chapter. Ms. Stevens served as chair, for two terms, of the editorial advisory board for “The Clinical Researcher,” the peer reviewed journal publication for Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP). Ms. Stevens is the treasurer of the Associate Board of Trustees. Erika serves on the MAGI advisory board and is a director for Brightpoint Health. She is also a frequent speaker on research operations and compliance practices at national conferences. Additionally, she is a published author whose work appears in a variety of peer journals including the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, The Monitor, Clinical Researcher, Regulatory Focus, Applied Clinical Trials, Clinical and Translation Science and the Journal of Mental Health and Aging. Ms. Stevens holds her B.A. from the University of Vermont, her M.A. from Case Western Reserve University and her M.A. from Temple University. She also holds a Graduate Certificate in Gerontology from Case Western University.