Marie-Luise Smith is Founder, Director of Operations, and Creative Director of Smith & Smith Global. She holds a German Bachelor of Science equivalent in Radiological Technology Sciences from LLAFMTA in Berlin, a federally regulated program, and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Walden University. Before founding SSG, she worked in tertiary-care hospitals, private practice, and in clinical research at Perceptive Informatics/Parexel (PI/P). At PI/P, she took over a role on a Bayer clinical trial after Bayer rejected an earlier placement and told PI/P to send its most qualified person for the job.