Chris Howard Email & Phone Number

New Hope, PA, US

T1Cure is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization with the mission of curing type one diabetes. We are majority led by type 1 diabetics that are familiar with the challenges of managing the disease and navigating the healthcare system to get the medications and devices we depend on to live. We regularly interface with top researchers in.

Levicure is a start-up in Isreal focused on providing patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) a safe and scalable oral medication that can lower insulin requirements and induce remission. Our patented combination therapy consists of two FDA approved drugs and GABA. A clinical proof-of-concept study in T1D patients and animal models demonstrated that the.

Offering business strategy, management, commercial operations, investor relations, sales and marketing services in the life sciences, in vitro diagnostics, biotechnology, therapeutic and diabetes markets in advisory, consultation and board member roles.

Branchburg, New Jersey, US

• Led sale of company to strategic buyer at 12.7x EBITDA, exiting after transition to new owner. Identifiedas the only Key Designated Employee in the transaction documents and promoted to President under the transition.
• Led and executed through multiple rounds of legal (mediation & arbitration) to exit previous NorthAmerican distribution relationship and contracts with accompanying multimillion dollar legal award
• Executed build of direct commercial organization starting with National Referencelabs followed by all customers (hospital, reference lab, biotech, R&D institutes) in US andCanada.
• Build full commercial structure (sales, marketing, technical support, field applications,commercial operations, customer service) including system of customized integrated CRM, CPQ, and DocuSign, collaborative project.
• Negotiated and executed OEM development and manufacturing agreements for multiple customers inaddition to negotiating and managing agreements with clinical instrumentation companies (Luminex,Dynex, Stratec, Visia), as.
• Worked across organization to design, develop and release new products including the first updated Lyme Disease testing algorithm in 25 years (FDA & CDC collaboration), novel digital scanner and intelligent software.

Branchburg, New Jersey, US

Branchburg, New Jersey, US

Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, US

• Recruited to oversee global marketing responsibility of preanalytical blood collection systems formolecular and cellular biology applications including global production forecasting, global tacticalmarketing collateral.
• Member of joint venture (with Qiagen) leadership team of PreAnalytiX (www.preanalytix.com).

North Chicago, Illinois, US

• Recruited to manage marketing team and functions for capital equipment and in vitro diagnostic multiplex immunoassay portfolio comprising autoimmune and infectious disease testing markets.
• Delivered product launch of numerous autoimmune and infectious disease multiplex immunoassaysutilizing OEM Luminex platform
• Directly set up product portfolio distribution and trained affiliates in Canada, U.K. and Australia
• Established leadership position within the divisional marketing team and selected to inaugural corporateglobal Inspirational Leadership Program

• Oversee and execute all marketing activities across full product portfolio (reagents, consumables, capital equipment) including sales tools, technical bulletins, promotional and advertising and corporate website
• Matrix manager for sales organization on all molecular and cellular biology products, achieving > 30%growth per year minimum
• Developed, implemented and managed internal procedures for storing, shipping and selling molecular and cell biology product portfolio across United States and Canada
• Delivered multiple product launches for both instrumentation and reagents in molecular and cellularbiology

Seraing, Liege, BE

• Recruited in as third U.S. employee for U. S. based subsidiary
• Manage product distribution (real time PCR and oligonucleotides) and support for all North Americandistribution partners and customers, build out and manage direct sales organization and processes forNorth America.
• Executed over 200% growth across 2 years from start up
• Transitioned all functions from startup facility in Philadelphia to La Jolla

Madison, WI, US

• Provide sales and technical support for New Jersey territory for full portfolio of Promega products(primarily molecular biology, cell biology, reporter gene assays, capital equipment). Expanded distributionsales.
• Achieve > 40% growth (2001) and > 25% growth (2002)
• Awarded Salesperson Of The Year (2001)

Radnor, PA, US

• First employee in expansion of corporate Life Science program in to Canada. Drive VWR corporateinitiative to grow life science product sales (primarily molecular and cellular biology reagents andequipment) in the life.
• Executed product technical trainings and product/sales support nationally for inside and outside sales team

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Manage multiple scientific research projects within Department of Cell Biology and Department of Pediatric Cardiology at world class research hospital
• Track all research protocols and budgets
• Train new students and fellows in microscopy (confocal and fluorescent) and various surgical laboratory techniques

Bsc, Biochemistry - Honors

Msc, Biochemistry

Mba, Business Administration