Dick Aderman Email & Phone Number

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Boomerang Studio focuses entirely on early-growth startups in the healthcare and life sciences sectors in digital health, diagnostics, and life sciences tools with the potential for true, measurable disruption. We look to make a difference for founders where our team of entrepreneurs, investors, and industry executives have tremendous experience.We work with individual entrepreneurs and founders as well as corporations, universities, and healthcare entities that need a commercialization resource for ideas developed within their organizations.Boomerang is a full-service alternative to accelerators and incubators. We’re hands-on, evaluating, selecting, and de-risking new ideas and technology and providing the strategy, team, and capital to bring a new company to market. We also manage day-to-day business operations so entrepreneurs can focus on more critical tasks. Once a company shows traction, we raise capital through our Boomerang Fund to fully realize the growth opportunity.

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Hunt Big Sales is a sales strategy company that provides CEOs who are unsatisfied with their growth rates a proven process that doubles their sales conversion rate, doubles the size of their average sale, and doubles the rate in which they double the size of their company.Hunt Big Sales is a high-touch sales consultancy that helps mid-market companies land big sales, increase profitability, business value and overall performance. By focusing on fewer – bigger – sales opportunities, companies experience exponential growth, which helps take their businesses to the next level and elevate who they are to the market. Hunt Big Sales also provides Sales Leadership Development for CROs and senior sales executives. This multi-module program focuses on the key elements of sales leadership to maximize their effectiveness in a round-table environment with other like-minded executives.

The iTeam - Was excited by the opportunity to invest in iTeam and refocusing their prep work to scale. A series of Think Tanks for CEOs.

Kalamazoo, Mi, Us

Advisory capacity to the Dean of the Haworth College of business. Mentor/advisor to MBA graduate students preparing to purchase and operate businesses in the west Michigan area

ImmunArray is dedicated to helping physicians manage complex autoimmune and neurologic diseases, including traumatic brain injury, by providing them with information from proprietary multi-analyte biomarker-based tests. To this end, the company conducts research and develops products in collaboration with leading investigators, advisors, clinicians, partners and medical centers in the USA, Europe and Israel.

Carmel, Indiana, Us

Fountains of Hope is not-for-profit, faith-based organization, serving God by providing life-giving, safe drinking water for churches, schools, orphanages, and medical clinics around the world. Fountains of Hope is committed to the installation, integration of safe water solutions and teaching simple hygiene practices to people in need.

M&A advisory, consulting, business development, diligence, business planning, investing and fundraising.

Garden Grove, California, Us

Led successful turnaround of low tech, low growth private equity-owned clinical diagnostics company from purchase through sale of one business, which sold for 3x its original value, with 2nd business set up for 7x its original value sales exit. TURNAROUND & PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT✔ Restructured 33% of employees and 100% of senior management in first 12 months.✔ Revamped Quality Management System in first 9 months, resulting in clean audits by ISO and FDA.✔ Initiated Six Sigma and Agile project management ✔ Reduced assay COGS significantly NEGOTIATION✔ Successfully negotiated global distribution agreement with one of the top 10 global diagnostics companies✔ Negotiated 3-year manufacturing agreement with instrument developer.PRODUCT INNOVATION✔ Filed 10 patent applications with 4 awarded, 4 pending.

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Drove business and technology development for an early-stage clinical diagnostics/veterinary diagnostics/life sciences company platform. PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT & ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT✔ Implemented Agile Project Management to expedite development for veterinary diagnostics, clinical diagnostics and life sciences antibody screening; resulting in successful feasibility and evaluation studies for all 3 markets.✔ Restructured, Sales, Marketing and R&D resulting in focused product development and partnerships.PRODUCT INNOVATION✔ Successfully completed proof of concept for clinical diagnostic market (EBV test) and life sciences market, leading to negotiated 5 year, $50M supply agreement and partnership.PURCHASING & VENTURE CAPITAL NEGOTIATION✔ Negotiated $2.5M Veterinary Market Exit for contract manufacturing and market licensing for veterinary markets.✔ Raised $5M in Series B2, C1 Venture Capital funding to support complete development and initiate commercialization.

Novel pain pump device for outpatient, post-operative pain management. Set up Midwest distribution network, developed key opinion leader relationships, built sales and marketing team, signed reimbursement service provider and raised capital.

Innovative physician office patient management software with embedded disease management, patient billing, drug interaction and prescription management tools. Directed software development of key disease modules. Negotiated proof of concept pilot with leading national insurance company provider, leading international diabetes diagnostics company, State of Indiana employee department and major university for the purpose of tracking impact of physician office software on patient management for diabetes and key co-morbidities.

Switzerland 🇨🇭 , Ch

Lead complete turnaround of US commercial business unit of leading clinical & molecular diagnostics company. I’m proud to have led teams responsible for doubling sales and earned double-digit operating profit in 5 years. ✔ Improved customer satisfaction scores from worst to first.🏆 Recognized as Fortune’s Top 100 places to work. TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION🏆 Earned top industry award, recognized as 1st major diagnostics company to innovate on-line support for customer directed services and on-line ordering.AGGRESSIVE P & L MANAGEMENT✔ Created $40M+ documented savings and cost improvement by teaching & implementing Six Sigma practices to 400+employees.✔ Drove EBITDA from 0% to >20%.✔ Dramatic impact on many KPI’s.

Switzerland 🇨🇭 , Ch

Sr. VP of Corporate Accounts for hospital and point of care clinical diagnostics products.