I am a business development, communications, marketing, and investor outreach advisor to biopharma, medtech, and tech startups and emerging-growth companies. With 25 years of cross-functional experience in revenue growth, strategic partnerships, corporate and product positioning and communications, omnichannel marketing, branding, investor relations, market research, data science and analytics, market access, social media, diversity and inclusion, advocacy relations, clinical trial strategies, and patient engagement, I thrive when applying my diverse background and deep investor and industry contact base to young companies. I help clients identify and secure investors, grants, partners, influencers, customers and talent for their ventures. I am an AI enthusiast and help clients adopt AI to boost innovation and productivity and gain a competitive edge. I enjoy coaching and mentoring as well.I serve on the advisory boards for several biopharma/tech companies, serving as strategic counsel. , and communications, as well asI am active in the Orange County (OC), CA community and have served as President of the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association (HBA) OC and an HBA Pacific Region Mentor. I currently am on the HBA OC Advisory Board and the HBA Executive Women’s Outreach Committee. I'm also active in Octane. At Syneos Health, I was SVP in Business Development working with clients from biopharma and medtech companies from startups to top-tier. I was promoted to a Global Client Partnerships role providing Integrated Commercial and Clinical solutions to large biopharma/device clients. Before Syneos, I founded a boutique strategic marketing, investor relations and communications consultancy where my clients ranged from biopharma, healthcare and tech to private equity and law firms. My background includes tenure as SVP/Managing Director at various marketing and communications agencies providing counsel to biopharma, medtech, and tech and VP of Investor Relations at a tech company undertaking an IPO. I started my career in investment banking at Salomon Brothers in NYC.Specialties: startups, investor decks, investor outreach, biopharma, medtech, health tech, business development, generative AI, corporate communications, marketing, investor relations, omnichannel marketing, partnership development, client relationship management, public speaking, thought leadership, social media, media relations, digital marketing, patient engagement, advocacy relations, advisory boards, KOL engagement, market research, competitive landscape analysis, commercial roadmaps
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