I've teamed up with two other senior healthcare leaders to help accelerate transformational change in three key areas. Team Development: We help teams learn to create conditions of success. Innovation: We train teams in the foundations of innovation so they have the tools to solve complex problems.Strategic Communications: We help leaders develop transformational messages that align stakeholders, create ambassadors and motivate end-users.

Launch NY, Inc. is a new venture development organization whose mission is to identify, support and invest in high-growth, high-impact companies and catalyze the entrpreneurial culture throughout Upstate New York. I was thrilled to advise six entreprenuers throughout the year in developing a lean business model worthy of seed funding and follow-on investment.

In addition to my consulting practice, I enjoy teaching mid-career students to improve their professional skills via three elective classes: Creating Customer Value, Corporate Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization Practicum (SU College of Law). I have taught students from six continents and enjoyed seeing the results in advancing their careers, professional collaborations and launching new ventures.

Creators of the CoachCare digital weight loss platform and associated consumer health analytics. The CoachCare technology platform powers weight loss clinics with a custom-branded mobile app, coach dashboard and connected devices combine into one integrated platform to improve patient care and increase clinic revenues. CoachCare is a collaborative software platform designed by physicians, psychiatrists, Registered Dietitians and enjoys a 90% patient success rate.

Healthcare Transformation in Ninety Days:Contracted to co-lead the Innovation Navigation (IN90) curriculum for the American Hospital Assoc. (AHA) 3,500 member healthcare systems. Over a dozen cross-functional teams have been trained to use design thinking tools to solve their greatest challenges in: Population Health, Patient Engagement, Access to Care, Care Coordination, Shifting Payment Models/ Affordability and Reducing Workplace Violence.IN 90 is comprised of a three-day Bootcamp event where teams learn the five secrets of innovation. The Bootcamp is followed with Agile coaching to determine Desirability, Feasibility and Sustainability of prototype solutions and a final Go/No Go decision within ninety days.

OHG is a medical technology innovator with a mission to bring breakthrough health diagnostics, therapeutics, monitoring and advanced analytics to market.Our focus is to have a radical impact on clinical outcomes while providing technologies and solutions that help address major global pressures on making excellent healthcare more affordable and accessible. We are named for our fundamental belief that good health is a function of good medical practice that is often common across species, and that understanding environmental impacts on health are critical.

The Life Reimagined Institute is a subsidiary of AARP focused on improving health and wellness of 50 Million Americans through a continuum of digital and live event experiences. The Institute worked with Thought Leaders from a variety of academic, behavioral and health disciplines to pilot unique solutions and scale new consumer engagement models.• New Market Success: Online community of 5 Million followers and 50,000 attendees at live events within two years.• New Product Development: Created a new population health initiative capitalizing on the latest behavioral health findings (National Academy of Science 2014) to launch clinical studies with risk-assessed patients. Goals for the pilot programs include improving psycho-social metrics, optimizing preventative health screening and reducing the overall cost of care.• Commercial Partnerships: Responsible for piloting new Life Reimagined LifeMap® product with emerging population health partners and documenting short and long-term improvements via face-to-face encounters and a tele-medicine video platform.• Thought Leadership: Launched a first-of-its-kind Fellows program based the principles of Open Innovation. The Fellows Teams included participants from both academic and industry backgrounds, collaborating over a one-year period to solve a challenge question and develop minimum viable product (MVP) solutions presented to AARP’s Executive Team.

A joint venture of Welch Allyn Medical and Syracuse University focused on creating and leveraging intellectual capital through novel detection, early diagnosis and prevention of adverse health conditions.• New Venture Creation: Responsible for start-up and growth of a technology accelerator as a member of the three-person Executive Team with specific duties in market research, regulatory trending, technology adoption assessments and pro-forma valuations of emerging technology.• Opportunity Assessment: Developed a proprietary method for evaluating over 500 outside technologies—selecting the “best of breed” based upon technical feasibility, freedom to operate, and potential market adoption.• Research & Development: Directed primary and secondary research efforts instrumental in developing Welch Allyn’s strategic objective focused on the emergence of telemedicine, remote patient monitoring and wireless sensors.• New Product Portfolio: Developed an aggregated product portfolio consisting of twenty-one disruptive technologies and service addressable markets valued at $4 billion.• Executive-Level Collaboration: A member of Welch Allyn’s IP Committee, Global Management Team and Platform Business Model teams.

Intellectual Property and Commercialization consultant to Welch Allyn, Inc., RoundTable Healthcare Partners, C&S Engineering LLP and Academy IP in their work with the Research Foundation for the State of New York. The bulk of this work led directly to co-founding Blue Highway LLC.

Retained by new ownership (post acquisition) to restore key account relationships after a two year sales decline. Worked with the manufacturing team to resolve a six-week backlog and launched a new product development effort to meet customer needs in emerging markets. Accomplished over 30 on-site visits with global customers resulting in new Annual Supply Agreements.

InterV Medical Group integrated the operations of four companies previously operated independently by the Marmon Group-- three US and one manufacturing plant in Stenlose, Denmark.The company grew 15% top line and 25% EBITDA between 2003 and 2006 by acquiring the rights to proprietary medical devices in soft and hard tissue biopsy, interventional radiology and interventional vascular fields.I supervised the work of engineering development, product management and marketing communications as part of a cross-functional management team.

Integral member of the management team that accelerated the growth of a family-owned and operated, B2B medical device manufacturer. Responsible for diversifying revenue mix with Top 20 global customers by negotiating annual supply agreements and technology licensing. Developed expertise in letters of credit and securing US State Department (OFAC) approval of trade with embargoed nations. Accomplished 50 foreign country visits in five years.

Led the agency's new product team that launched the first video endoscope for Welch Allyn Medical. Designed a targeted campaign to reach Primary Care and Specialty Physicians to incentivize training and adoption of a new cancer diagnostic device. AAFP adoption exceeded targets and the product was successfully out-licensed to Olympus Medical Imaging. The same technology was also spun out as a new venture in an alternate field of use, later acquired by General Electric Visual Inspection Technology.