Almost Everyone in This Industry Arrived by Accident. Here’s What Keeps Them

Anders Mortin on Triticon, Knowledge World & 25 Years of Accidental Pharma | Pharma Prescribed

Anders Mortin — co-founder of Triticon and builder of the Knowledge World platform — joins Adam Walker for a conversation about eClinical consulting, knowledge sharing and what it means to build a company that values being useful over being big.

Anders holds a Master's in engineering physics from Lund University and fell into clinical data management by accident — a handball teammate needed extra hands for data entry at a small CRO. A brief escape to laser optics ended when the company collapsed after 26 days. He went back to pharma and never left. Twenty-five years later, he and his partners run Triticon from a hospital in Copenhagen with meeting rooms themed as a hunting cabin, Bali and Nasa.

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📖 WHAT WE COVER
- Handball, data entry and the accidental career in pharma
- 26 days in laser optics before the company collapsed
- Building Triticon: eClinical consulting from Copenhagen
- Knowledge World: a platform for sharing operational knowledge across pharma
- Why most people in biometrics ended up here by accident
- The hunting cabin meeting room and Danish work culture
- CrossFit, garden sheds and doing something tangible with your hands
- Be of value — the golden rule

⏱️ CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction & podcast mission
1:00 Meet Anders Mortin — co-founder of Triticon
2:00 The hunting cabin meeting room in a Copenhagen hospital
3:00 Handball, data entry and slipping into pharma by accident
4:00 26 days in laser optics — and the company that collapsed
6:00 Paper CRFs, handwritten queries and the old days
8:00 Building Tricon in Copenhagen with his partners
10:00 Knowledge World: the platform for operational knowledge sharing
14:00 Why pharma needs better knowledge transfer
18:00 Pioneers, feedback and building in public
22:00 AI, LLMs and what changes for eClinical consulting
28:00 The consultant's dilemma: automation vs billable hours
34:00 Mentors and the balance between nerd and communicator
38:00 Quick-fire: family first, CrossFit, nature and garden sheds
44:00 Golden rule: be of value — and the tangible life
46:00 triticon.com, Knowledge World and closing thanks

👤 ABOUT ANDERS MORTIN
Co-founder of Triticon, a Copenhagen-based eClinical consultancy. Builder of Knowledge World. Master's in engineering physics. 25+ years in clinical data management.
🌐 https://www.tricon.com
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🎙️ ABOUT PHARMA PRESCRIBED
Long-form conversations with leaders in clinical research, digital health and mental wellbeing, hosted by Adam Walker.
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