• Strategy: sourcing and diligence of technologies from academia to feed into company pipeline, alliance and strategic partnering, licensing and contract negotiations, fundraising activities, commercialization and go-to-market strategy, regulatory and IP strategy• Operations: alignment of R&D timelines with corporate goals and company vision, hiring and management of R&D team, implementation of company workflows and processes• Head of R&DHead of R&D• Preclinical Development: technical lead in translation of academic microbiome discoveries into preclinical development programs, de-risking of technologies in-house and with CROs, host-microbe MOA expertise in microbiology and immunology• Clinical development: Work with the clinical team to translate the discovered biomarkers into clinically meaningful results in clinical trial design, identification of biomarkers, patient stratification, etc.

• Innovation & Venture Creation: sourcing technologies and program development • Diligence: scientific and technical risk analysis, hypothesis-driven preclinical/IND-enabling technology de-risking, market analysis, commercial and competitive landscaping, IP analysis• Business Development & Licensing: identification of KOLs and opportunities, cultivation and management of relationships with external parties, negotiation of contracts and deals for in-licensing

• Business Development Operations: formalized business development best practices including standardized quantitative lead scoring funnel for out bound lead discovery and in bound leads. Performed competitive intelligence market research and analysis, business strategy and business model development. Managed operations using scrum methodology for a cross functional team.• Strategic Alliances & Partnerships: built relationships and generated leads for industry /academia research collaborations. Collated, analyzed and presented quantitative and qualitative data to drive decision making. • Healthcare Logistics: built and managed global supply chain distribution for genetic testing kits. Scaled operations by 100 -fold to capacity of 10,000 orders a month. Lead in deal negotiations and management of vendors.• Customer Development and Client Services: Contributed to building a customer service platform, including account management processes. • Regulatory Compliance: contributed to projects on consent, privacy and security of electronic health record data, FDA regulation and compliance, and Health Canada audit.