Maria Flynn Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Role: creator of Make Opportunity Happen: the book, website, presentation, and workshop.Growing up on a Kansas wheat farm, you learn to be independent, resourceful, and proactive because you see other people around you who can do practically anything. Luckily, the mindset rubbed off on me, and translated later in my life: Oh, you need to run a biotech? Figure it out and do it. Farm training sets the stage for a great entrepreneur’s toolbox.My parents talked about business around the dinner table and I had jobs in their businesses. From my engineering launchpad, I became an entrepreneur. First, inside a large company, Cerner Corporation, we were developing the next new technology. Later, I was the CEO of Orbis Biosciences, a pharmaceutical manufacturing technology company. Orbis made drugs safer and longer lasting. I journeyed from startup to selling Orbis to a large manufacturer, Adare Pharma, and learned many lessons.Since Orbis, I have worked with over thirty companies, helping entrepreneurs align their stars. I did this as the Managing Director of Techstars Kansas City and through my consulting company, Ambiologix. In all my work, I seek to help entrepreneurs simplify, focus, and form the right questions. These lessons and methods have proven effective across industries from health tech, biotech, and deep tech into other sectors like marketing, financial services, and consumer products.Thinking back over my life makes me wonder if I might have taken the same journey if my parents weren’t entrepreneurs. What about all the business founders exploring this world for the first time? What if this is your first startup, and you haven’t had the opportunity to ride along with thirty other companies? How do you level the playing field?With the methods and templates in Make Opportunity Happen. You don’t need to wait for the stars to align. These strategies can enable you to move your own stars into place. Let’s get started!

Role: identified opportunity, recruited team and advisory board, raised initial funding, and generated support from industry, payer, provider, philanthropy, government, and entrepreneurial support communities. With over 70 companies and 25,000 experienced professionals, Kansas City's digital health companies are solving healthcare’s biggest challenges. Digitizing healthcare requires deep knowledge and experience of the care process, payment models, and data. Digital Health KC supports existing companies, from start-ups to the largest enterprises, while attracting digital health businesses to the KC region. Digital Health KC connects ideas, talent, companies, capital, and customers to advance healthcare innovation.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Role: guiding entrepreneurs in building, scaling, and selling their businessesThe word Ambiologix means around logic and is based on infusing logic into our decisions. Created by Maria Flynn, an entrepreneur herself who has worked with many entrepreneurs, growing businesses, Ambiologix was born out of the hope of bringing many years of lessons and education to future entrepreneurs and business owners.Starting, owning, and operating a business can be lonely and challenging. We wanted to create an opportunity for business owners to get the guidance, tools, education, and personable help they need to succeed at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey. Not only do we help provide networking opportunities, mentors, and strategic assistance, but we also want to see you grow both personally and professionally.Whether in biotech, health tech, or tech, we are there to offer the resources, direction, and helping hand you need to make your business goals a reality.Activities include:☑️ Coaching health tech, biotech, and deep tech founders and teams on 90-day sprints to propel product development, funding, sales, and business development ☑️ Advancing technology at the KUMed Center for Health Innovation and Transformative Care☑️ Presenting keynote speeches at conferences and speaking at university classes and investor portfolio training☑️ Judging pitch competitions and selection into accelerator programs

Cambridge , Ma, Us

Venture capital firm supporting the world's best health-tech founders

Kansas City, Mo, Us

The global leader at the nexus of human and animal healthThe KC region is a global leader at the nexus of human and animal health, inspiring thinkers from diverse disciplines to combine their efforts for a common purpose — healthcare innovation. For over 20 years, BioNexus KC has been advancing the region’s strengths in digital health, cancer research, health equity, informatics, and rare disease.BioNexus KC stimulates collaboration, accelerates emerging technology from concept to reality, and creates opportunities at the nexus of:☑️ Human and Animal Health☑️ Urban and Rural Health☑️ Healthcare and Information Technology☑️ Academia and Industry☑️ Kansas and Missouri

Stilwell, Kansas, Us

Preclinical in-vivo solutions for the biotech, pharma, and animal health

Kansas City, Ks, Us

The Midwest's premier entrepreneurial leadership organization

New York City, New York, Us

New York City, New York, Us

The worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeedAs the world's most active pre-seed investor, Techstars has invested in more than 4,000 early-stage startups and has a portfolio of 9,000+ founders from HealthTech and FinTech, to Web3 and CleanTech; from Miami and Silicon Valley to Lagos and London.Techstars supports many of the world's best entrepreneurs with access to capital, mentoring, finding customers, hiring talent, and choosing the right infrastructure.Role: Managing Director☑️ Invested in 10 technology companies across health tech, fintech, deep tech, and consumer tech ☑️ Ran Techstars KC accelerator program from company selection to demo day with net promoter score of 99 on a 100 scale☑️ Supported Techstars Music program on KPI management to 10x progress over 13 weeks☑️ Developed investor network of 300 local and global investors

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Global technology-driven pharmaceutical CDMO☑️ Executed integration of Orbis Biosciences’ business into Adare’s business☑️ Provided strategic oversight into technology development, including sale to first customers for four technology platforms

Revolutionizing the delivery, efficacy, and safety of pharmaceuticalsRole: President & CEO.Select Accomplishments:Leadership☑️ Orchestrated sale of company to Adare Pharmaceuticals, providing return to shareholders and ensuring continued company growth trajectory☑️ Built team of scientists and business professionals with a culture of purpose, autonomy, and mastery☑️ Exceeded Board’s expectations for executing its vision and quantitative benchmarks☑️ Held responsible for all elements of business and technology development, funding, client relationships, and company growth needs, including internal and external team ☑️ Recruited and retained team, setting clear goals and performance measurement processes☑️ Scaled the technology, proved technology applications, and created intellectual property platform with robust patent portfolio and trade secret program while bootstrapping the business ($18M of development on only $1.8M of equity investment)☑️ Led team in receiving the 2017 Excellence in Formulation Award and 2018 International Small Business of the Year Business Development and Strategy☑️ Built the company from concept, to startup, to sustained enterprise developing 29 projects for 27 corporate partners with a median market cap of $4 billion☑️ Guided vision by surveying the technology’s fit within different industries and honed the business strategy to focus in specific applications within the pharmaceutical industry ☑️ Set company strategy and monitored performance towards goals☑️ Negotiated licensing, proof-of-concept, development, master-services, and material-transfer agreements with partners, including several multi-million-dollar agreements☑️ Managed grant process to identify and execute grant strategy, securing $9.1M in non-dilutive financing through grants with the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense and USDA

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

The leader in digital health solutionsDirector – Cerner GaltResponsible for P&L of a $5M life sciences business unit focused on safety and pharmacovigilance, providing software and services to pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies. ☑️ Turned around an acquisition to transform culture into sustainable business☑️ Led 35 associates in converting a struggling acquisition into growing business unit ☑️ Executed business stabilization that reduced 6-month unplanned attrition rate from 69% to 14% ☑️ Implemented financial rigor, reducing overall expenses by 20% and external consulting fees by 95%☑️ Integrated acquisition into parent companyDirector – State and Regional Grid ServicesResponsible for securing initial sales, building new business unit, and leading the consulting team. Team performed a statewide rollout of the Community Health Record, a web-based health record, providing patient-specific health data and electronic prescribing functionality to Tennessee clinicians. ☑️ Developed $6.5M annual client relationship – Shared Health, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee; managed implementation, operations, and support☑️ Led team of fourteen consultants in statewide adoption to Tennessee Medicaid providers☑️ Supervised the training of 6,000 users at 1,000 sites; exceeded rollout targets by 200%☑️ Developed intellectual capital necessary for rollout☑️ Expanded sales to other state Medicaid agencies in six states☑️ Managed and mentored 20 direct-report associates at one time Business Strategist – Executive Development ProgramResponsible for financial analysis in support of national deals and senior executives’ strategic decisions. ☑️ Developed pricing models and operations plans for United Kingdom national procurement that led to contracts exceeding $800M, providing technology for two-fifths of the country’s clinicians ☑️ Initiated business unit – State and Regional Grid Services – as first member of team

Boston, Ma, Us

Engineering solutions in water, environment, transportation, energy and facilities☑️ Led a twelve-member team in developing an infrastructure assessment computer program that became industry standard and was distributed by the American Water Works Association Research Foundation ☑️ Designed water treatment plant automation that increased system reliability, reduced labor demands, and improved chemical usage, reducing operating costs by 15% ☑️ Developed water plant master plans that addressed regulatory issues, expanded plant capacity 50%, and overcame land and information barriers ☑️ Designed a Nile River intake structure for US Agency for International Development Middle Egypt High Priorities Project with a team of six American and Egyptian engineers☑️ Awarded Outstanding Performance Recognition Award given to 10 of 3,400 associates

Mba, Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, Finance

Ms, Environmental Engineering

Bs, Civil Engineering