Experienced Biotechnology/Pharmaceuticals Scientist and Executive with track record of innovation, and building and leading talented R&D teams teams through all phases of research, development and commercialization. Director of Chemistry at two different Biotechnology/biopharmaceuticals companies, where he was responsible for creating and developing their chemistry and organic chemistry research departments, and serving as Safety Officer for regulatory and safety committee day-to-day activities. His expertise is in biotech, genome, G-protein coupled receptors (GPCR), and drug discovery/development, with additional experience in rapidly advancing biologics from research through clinical and commercial stages. He has extensive experience building R&D labs and operations from scratch, researching medicinal and bio-organic chemistry and creating R&D platform technologies for genome, scientific software and GPCR target identification and validation.
• An entrepreneur who applies his passion for innovation to build high performance teams and first-in-class products under rigorous time lines in environments that span a range of scientific and technical disciplines.
• A hard driving, broad thinker with a talent for seeing the big picture who makes good, timely decisions using limited data.
• A dynamic leader who recruits and leads teams through all phases of research, development and commercialization.
• An effective communicator and attentive listener who is able to help scientists understand market opportunities, investors to understand technology, customers to understand products and product developers to understand customer needs.
• A teacher and mentor who has helped others develop both technical and leadership skills.
• A product development professional, executive and scientist with a depth of experience in drug development and research, experimental and clinical trial design, creation of intellectual property.
Key words: Biotechnology, Nucleic Acids, Medicinal Chemistry, Start-up, Biotechnology startup, Operation, Consultation, Computational Chemistry, chemical genomic, protein chemistry, synthesis.