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Retired with over 10 years experience in product marketing and new business creation. Strong advocate of customer intimacy, often consulted to work across product lines to identify opportunities that increase the wallet share of high value customers. Familiar with product management in highly regulated environments that require detailed life cycle documentation and comfortable working with marketing, product development, finance, quality, services and sales teams. Enjoy evaluating information from Key Opinion Leaders, performing competitive intelligence and identifying and building relationships with third-party partners and acquisition candidates.► PRODUCT MARKETING AND MANAGEMENT: Experience working across geographies to uncover high growth customer segments and define solutions that include hardware, software, reagents/consumables and services. Ability to quickly understand highly technical scientific information to define customer requirements and adept at making feature trade-offs when needed to meet aggressive introduction goals.► MARKET RESEARCH: Excels at bringing alive the Voice of Customer to product teams, sales and executives so they can easily understand customer problems and needs. Conducts primary and secondary market research for product definition, segmentation, price elasticity, competitive benchmarking and customer loyalty studies.Key Competencies: - Product lifecycle management in regulatory markets- Portfolio management- Market analysis and needs assessments- Customer requirements definition- Voice of Customer research- Financial analysis and global pricing- Negotiation of licenses, partnerships, and collaborations- Mergers and Acquisitions investigation and analysis

Listed skills include Cross Functional Team Leadership, Product Marketing, Product Management, Market Research, and 15 others.