www.charlesgroup.comCharles Albert is founder and principal designer at CharlesGroup Inc, a consulting firm providing product development and market research services to world leaders in healthcare including Novartis, Roche, Nektar, and Gilead.Charles’ strength is communication. His ability to engage people crosses disciplines, industries, gender and age. It's how he's able to make the connections he’s made over 25 years. It’s how he gains insight into consumer behavior, industry trends, and technologies. Charles' gift is helping his clients understand and influence what happens at the human intersection of their technologies and their customers. Charles has a proven ability to build and manage highly specialized teams which produce world class results for his clients. Throughout his many years based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Charles has developed a wide web of relationships with experts and research institutions in the US, Europe and Asia. While 80% of CharlesGroup business is with repeat clients, he’s just as committed to discovering and growing new business relationships. Charles is named inventor on several US patents, and is a recipient of Business Week’s IDEA Gold Award for product design. He holds degrees in Fine Arts and Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and has completed the BPC and LEIP business programs with the AJI network.He lives in San Francisco.Specialties: • Market research and product development consulting• Human Factors Evaluations. Formative and Validation studies compliant with Agency guidelines• Drug delivery device design• Medical device design• Integrating development and evaluative activities to create a better products faster. www.charlesgroup.com