Kennedy Mcdaniel Bae, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Paris, Ile-de-France, FR

Long Island City, NY, US

• Opentrons makes robots for biologists, automating experiments to allow scientists to spend more time answering the 21st century’s toughest questions.
• Hired and led a team of product managers with subject matter expertise to execute product strategy through collaboration and standarized processes.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams (Design, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Science, and Operations) for product and process development and optimization.
• Developed and executed roadmap of 4 existing products and 3 exploratory initiatives to achieve company goals through community and partner enablement.
• Established metrics system to measure and improve user success in alignment with company strategy.

Long Island City, NY, US

We make open source, flexible, user-friendly robots for life scientists. Our mission is to provide the scientific community with a common platform to easily share protocols and reproduce each other's results.

New York, NY, US

• Canid is a comprehensive vaccine management solution for independent pediatric practices. "Let pediatricians focus on the kids. We do the rest."
• Define product vision and roadmap for existing and new products, streamlining clinical and administrative operations for physician clients.
• Drive the full product lifecycle from research, design, specification, metrics definition, development, launch, and performance.
• Lead collaborative efforts across the organization, continuously iterating team processes to maximize contribution, collaboration, and efficiency.
• Lead creation and management of strategy and requirements, including documentation, KPIs, and workflows.

• Public benefit corporation focused on the insulin vertical with products addressing accessibility and affordability, bringing US patients access to up to 70% time and cost savings.
• Founded company to make insulin more affordable and accessible by connecting US patients with Canadian pharmacies for 70-90% savings on insulin.
• Successfully fundraised in unprecedented market (April-May 2020)
• Built a top tier advisory team including the former CTO of GoodRx and a physician/Director atOne Medical.
• Specific areas of oversight: Product Management & Development, Marketing, A/B testing, UserResearch, Partnership Development, Internal Operations, Growth Marketing

San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

San Rafael, California, US

• Koniku leverages biology as a fundamental technology, operating with a blue ocean strategy. The Konikore is an IoT "smelling" device with living biosensors that merges living biology with hardware and software.
• Negotiated $12M in contracts with Fortune 500 companies; lead co-development.
• Scaled team from 7 to 24 employees while decreasing onboarding time to productivity.
• Improved employee alignment by 57% by redefining project initiation and reporting.
• Created a reporting pipeline that decreased employee time by 30% and increased client satisfaction.

San Rafael, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

• Adivo Associates is a boutique, international consulting firm specializing in rare diseases and deep biotech.
• Managed teams across 3 continents delivering on-time or ahead of schedule for client strategy.
• Consulted for healthcare and biotech companies at all stages of commercial deployment in theUS, EU, and Asia.
• Opportunity exploration, market research, modeling, and forecasting to deliver strategic insightsand guidance.

• Designed a clinical research trial for cost-saving treatment of surgical complications to decrease hospitalization time.
• Provided market entry strategies based on ongoing medical device trial.
• Pre-submission review for over 20 publications to top science journals.

• Completed through passage of USMLE Step 1 exam; left Medical School to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities.Research:
• Identified key drivers of burnout in physicians, analyzed the corresponding impact.
• Proposed system-level changes to reduce physician burnout.
• https://www.journalofsurgicalresearch.com/article/S0022-4804(17)30291-3/fulltext

Little Rock, AR, US

• Liaison between the national organization and UAMS.
• Lead workshop on “Effective Identification and Implementation of On-Campus Initiatives”

Little Rock, AR, US

• 12-person working group; designed and implemented curriculum feedback and improvement process.

• Developed method to investigate the role of Musashi isoforms and therapeutics on tumor development in neural organoids.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences

Bachelor’S Degree, Biology, General