Kay Lowery Phr Email Address

Vice President, Human Resources and Legal

Rho is a full-service, professionally managed contract research organization optimally sized to deliver results from clinical research with agility and adaptability. Maximizing profitability, stability, and planned growth has helped provide us with the experience, capacities, and capabilities of a larger organization--all without losing touch with our entrepreneurial passion. From our headquarters in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, we employ more than 350 creative and critical thinkers. We provide excellent service to some of the nation's leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies as well as a number of federal agencies. Our quality people in strategic locations allow us to help our clients bring new products to the marketplace in a wide range of therapeutic areas.

Kay is a nationally certified Human Resources professional and currently serves as Senior Director, Human Resources at Rho providing strategic and tactical HR guidance to leaders and employees. She is a Human Resources executive with 20+ years of experience in a multitude of industries including professional sports and entertainment, publication, manufacturing, technology, and HR consulting. Kay has extensive experience managing strategic and tactical HR functions for several organizations during the start-up and growth phases as well guiding company leaders and employees through workforce changes, including mergers and acquisitions as well as reductions in force. Kay’s areas of HR management have included developing HR strategies to align with business needs, payroll, recruiting, employee relations, compensation, workers compensation, benefits, intern programs, immigration, reduction-in-force processes, on-boarding, as well as administrative/facility functions for mid-to-large size organizations. Former roles have involved the development and implementation of human resources policies and procedures as well as providing strategic HR guidance to executive management. She has served on several boards of directors, including Community Health Services, Charlotte Area Society for Human Resources Managers, Stratford Richardson YMCA. and was a member of the steering committee for Y Achievers, a Greater Charlotte YMCA/Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools initiative to increase the CMS graduation rates. Currently, she is member of the Triangle Society of Human Resources Managers and North Carolina SHRM leadership teams. Kay is a graduate of Leadership Charlotte, Class 27, Leadership Triangle and a member of the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM), a national organization.