Al Lowenstein Email & Phone Number

Morristown, New Jersey, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Responsible for driving the development and manufacturing as well as the commercialization of a startup business for storing and dispensing vaccine products at the point of care. (http://vaccinesmartfridge.com) Specifically commercializing the concept derived from the US Patent US 8,756,122 B2, and US 7,775,056 B2. Responsibilities include, but not limited to; development of the commercial model; product roadmap; engineering design; acquisition of funding; development of partner network. Core technologies evolved automation around PLC, Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud Computing.Partnering with large Health Care organizations to incubate internal IP providing opportunity for the commercialization of the IP. Responsible leading an innovative discovery process within our Pharmaceutical partners while driving revenue across each of Weka Solutions’ business units. Participated as a member of the organizations leadership team to drive revenue targets and product direction.Key Accomplishments: ♣ Generated $2 Million in new business revenue during the first year♣ Worked with pharmaceutical customers to introduce Social Media as a digital patient acquisition platform♣ Set product direction across to key product lines♣ Launched Weka Health Solutions from IP that was licensed for commercialization from a top Pharmaceutical manufacture

Responsible for driving an innovative culture within the Information Technology organization as well as divisionally aligned business organizations. Focused on developing IT strategy across disparate business units throughout the organization. Ensured an outwardly facing approach to understand and embrace best practices from external organizations. Developed repeatable frameworks to engage organizations in the understanding of innovation, filtering and curating raw ideas, and refining the ideas into actionable projects to drive value. Built relationships with academic institutions and early stage companies in order to leverage key top talent. Managed a direct staff of 6 employees, while building a virtual innovation network of over 50 colleagues.Key Accomplishments:♣ In support of key customer initiatives, led joint innovation workshops with employees and customers to identify new opportunities to collaborate with a $500 Million to $1 Billion dollar potential♣ Developed business model and plan leveraging a patent held by me to build a new $70 Million dollar business while driving core product sales by up to $800 Million dollars.♣ Working with Boston University develop and execute a Grand Healthcare Challenge bring in 16 of the top business schools globally competing to identify and propose the next Billion dollar business for Merck. ♣ Participate as a member of the Innovation Capital Exchange (ICEX) Organization, a cross industry consortium of IT leaders of fortune 100 companies

Provide IT sales and marketing strategy to Merck’s Human Health Division, identifying novel approaches to relating to digital marketing, adherence, wellness and advanced analytics. Introduced both IT and the Sales and Marketing business, through partnerships and directed research, to concepts and technology beyond the scope of traditional IT.Key Accomplishments♣ Developed a strategic partnership with the Office of the CIO and Office of the Chief Medical Officer ensuring enterprise alignment of IT strategy with innovation, focused on revenue generation and breakthrough activities♣ Responsible for driving innovation aligned with strategy within the commercial organization for Merck in order to drive revenue and build efficiencies within the organization♣ Responsible for leading a global virtual team, enabling a culture of innovation throughout the organization♣ Develop, design and implement a innovation process and service♣ Partner with external innovative organization, companies and universities leveraging external experiences to further innovation within health care♣ Member of the Board of Directors of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Innovation Council

Led a global team responsible for defining the strategy and the delivery of all of Merck’s externally facing web properties; product/promotional sites and interactive portals. Including but not limited to content development, collaboration, negotiations with external marketing agencies, building partnerships with external content providers, and partnering with off-shore development teams. In addition, I was responsible for the systems supporting the web platform. These systems included the Global Digital Asset Management System, the content workflow and approval systems and domain trademark systems. Additional responsibility for designing and developing then next generation web platform. Administrative responsibility for spending in excess of $20M, an employee base of ~30 and an offshore vendor-supplied resources of ~40. Successfully managed key vendor relationships with Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant and HCL. Implemented a new physician portal in Japan and China based on Microsoft’s SharePoint Technology reaching over 400,000 physicians

Lead a regional team, based in Singapore, to deliver IT services enabling the Sales and Marketing Business units the ability to maximize their value to the overall Sales and Marketing goals of the company. Architected and deployed an On Demand CRM Solution in Vietnam and India. The solution became the foundation for CRM deployment in 75% of the company’s subsidiaries. Implemented analytics and business intelligence systems in South East Asian markets enabling the subsidiaries to improve both sales and marketing effectiveness. Account Management for CRM and BI thoughout the region working with both IT resources and local business to evolve locally developed solutions to regional/globally shared solutions.

Rahway, New Jersey, Us

Filled the vacated roll on an interim basis reporting to the market president. I was responsible for implementing a multi-channel approach to extend the subsidiaries reach to the 1.2M physicians in the China market. Assumed all management responsibilities during the acquisition and integration of Schering Plough. Successfully recruited the permanent IT leader.