Allen Gross Email and Phone Number

Allen is a consultant assisting his clients with commercial technical and engineering leadership needs. Most recently he led a search practice with retained search firm, EFL Associates, as a Vice President/Consultant. Joining EFL in August 2008, Allen was appointed to start and build a search practice in the Life Sciences. Relying on his over 15 years of experience building contacts in drug substance and drug product development, Allen successfully started and grew a thriving nationwide search practice building relationships with venture-backed, private equity-backed, and public companies with whom he successfully completed over 150 officer and executive-level placements during his eight-year tenure.Allen led a product management team with Millipore Sigma as Global Marketing Manager. In this role he had profit and loss responsibility for $35 million worth of proprietary cell culture media and recombinant growth factor product lines used in the cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practice) manufacture of vaccines and biotherapeutics. He also authored, presented, and executed a strategic plan to acquire majority supply positions within pre-clinical and early stage clinical pipelines of established and emerging pharmaceutical companies’ growing pipeline of biologics across the globe. Allen's market segmentation analysis was used as the company’s benchmark to make decisions for resource deployment and selling efforts.Seeing an emerging need to improve the safety of vaccine manufacturing platforms, Allen led a team to form and manage an exclusive research collaboration with a French technology company. This resulted in a first-to-market advantage to supply proprietary products to fifteen Animal Health, emerging biotechnology, and established pharmaceutical companies’ early stage clinical pipelines.