Mr Trepanier has been serving as interim secretary and CFO since May 2008 and had previously been etrials’s corporate controller and vice president of finance.
Prior to joining etrials in 2008, Mr Trepanier held positions as COO with Durham, North Carolina-based SmartOnline, chief finance officer and COO at DataFlux and director of finance at Hill-Room.
Mr Trepanier holds an MBA from the Southern New Hampshire University, a BS in accounting from West Virginia University and a BS from the University of New Hampshire.
Robert Brill, chairman of board of directors at etrials, said: “Jay has done an outstanding job in seamlessly assuming responsibility for etrials’s financial operations and the board has every confidence in his leadership capabilities.”