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Campbell, California, US

Durham, North Carolina, US

Durham, North Carolina, US

Durham, North Carolina, US

Acquired by W. L. Gore & Associates

• Established company to provide education and consulting expertise in Innovation, Strategy and Execution.
• Expanded on 6+ years of innovation implementation from founding of Innovation Education International (IEI) and 10+ years of teaching innovation.

Developed, taught, and implemented innovation curriculum in Kenya and South Africato 100+ students. Junior Achievement South Africa (JASA) is currently using IEI curriculum in multiple cities.

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Led team responsible for business development, strategy, competitive intelligence, market analytics & market research.
• Performed formal due diligence on multiple early stage ventures leading to bids/deals with each. Assessments included current and future market opportunity, competitive landscape, strategic fit and valuation.
• Developed strategy for entrance into mapping and navigation for cardiac ablation. Resulted in acquisition of CardioInsight (~$100M).

Minneapolis, MN, US

• TAVI European Marketing Manager, Tolochenaz, Switzerland (2013): Expat role in which I developed, executed and monitored marketing plans for four Corevalve/Engager product launches in 15+ countries.
• Senior Associate in Business Development for AF, Minneapolis, MN (2012): Monitored & evaluated 50+ technologies of strategic importance, while maintaining relationships with entrepreneurs and academic researchers.
• Corporate Innovation Analyst, Minneapolis, MN (2011): Assessed internal open innovationplatform to identify value created, resulting in a collaboration which Duke and Columbia Universities.
• Upstream Marketing Manager, Santa Rosa, CA (2010): Analyzed 2 value-added services for abdominal aortic aneurysm devices. Determined value proposition and barriers to adoption for each through 20+ sales rep interviews.

• Co-invented novel treatment for stress urinary incontinence (SUI).
• Developed and pitched business case to various funders.
• Awarded National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) grant.

Durham, North Carolina, US

Worked with physicians and internal stakeholders to develop patient positioning for bariatric surgery through the use of SPIDER, a novel single port laparoscopic method – this work became part of current STARR (Surgical Tiny Access and Rapid Recovery) treatment campaign.

Stanford, CA, US

• Intensive “Boot Camp” to review current state of the art in cardiology and electrophysiology.
• Clinical Immersion in Stanford Hospital in catheter and electrophysiology labs, watching procedures and finding unmeet clinical needs.
• Analysis and ranking of needs to determine top needs team would further pursue for the duration of the fellowship.
• IP submissions, business plan generation, prototyping of technologies based on unmet needs.
• Taught Stanford graduate students the innovative process.
• Externship at Guidant Cardiac Surgery (Boston Scientific).

• Performed background research on prior art, market, and clinical specifications for novel technology.
• Planned, developed, and implemented a computational strategy to create and test (through CFD) models of the novel technology.
• Planned, developed, and implemented a physical bench testing strategy to test real world prototypes.

• Crosstree is a leading industry-focused boutique Investing Firm (Biotechnology).
• Examined the Medical Device Industry to determine current market segments, trends, etc.
• Generation of a “Spot Light on Medical Devices” manuscript.
• Created taxonomic chart of industries segments, and after analysis of each, place the 1600+ companies identified as significant to Crosstree’s mission, into their respective area.

• Analyze, patent, and market University of South Florida technologies.
• Responsible for assisting technology manager in development of University of South Florida technologies. Prior art search, marketability analysis, technology evaluation, creation of marketing flyers, company searches.

• Responsible for leadership and development of soldiers.
• Commanded an infantry anti-tank Section (two squads).
• Delta Company Soldier of Year in 1998.
• Led section and platoon to “Best Infantry T.O.W. Section” and “Best Infantry T.O.W. Platoon” in the 2/124th Infantry Battalion.
• Earned E.I.B. (Expert Infantryman’s Badge) 1 of 47 out of 1250 soldiers who completed the 2 weeks of rigorous testing.

US

• Responsible for assisting users in Asia with computer issues ranging from PC and network technical support, Microsoft® Office Products, installation and troubleshooting of applications, remote access, printing issues.
• Administrator of Windows NT, 2000, XP, Microsoft Exchange, IBM AS/400.

Mba, Entrepreneurship & Health Sector Management

Phd, Biomedical Engineering

Certificate, Entrepreneurship

M.S.E., Biomedical Engineering