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The C=C Bond Group provides business and corporate development consulting services to various industries including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and biotechnology.We Create Enduring Customer Relationships based on trust and performance. Coaching, mentoring, business development, interim General or Sales Management roles, expert merger and acquisition services We create teams which believe in win/win, acts with integrity, places the customer first, and achieves improved results over the long-term.

Continued Ride Across America with the BamaRama500! USNA Ride Across Alabama - Oct 4-13, 2024. Led team which raised nearly $150,000 for great veteran causes at navy-cycling.com. Rode for Operation Patriots for Children - OPfC - supporting veterans who are adopting and fostering! The total raised by team navy-cycling.com over $800,000 as of December 2024!Riding Bike Across the USA to raise funds for Operation Heal Our Patriots, a ministry of Samaritan’s Purse. OHOP sends veteran couples with marriage challenges to a one week restorative week in Alaska at no charge to heal relationships. Raised more than $130,000 for this amazing ministry - allowing 17 couples to attend OHOP. Mission Accomplished. Team raised over $700,000 for various veteran causes toward the 5 year goal of $1.983mm!Would you like to do something awesome to support our veterans? Please join me!https://fundraise.samaritanspurse.org/fundraiser/3968472

Toronto, On, Ca

Senior Business Advisor to the Founder and CEO of Lumerate. Provide strategic and tactical consulting as Lumerate develops verticals in business intelligence software space. Lumerate’s cornerstone brand is Zymewire, which is recognized as the “go to” business intelligence and sales facilitation tool for those companies serving biotech and pharma.

Boone, Nc, Us

Samaritan’s Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan’s Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God’s love through His Son, Jesus Christ. The organization serves the Church worldwide to promote the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.I serve as needed on DART Team in the roles of Admin Officer or Finance Officer or in any role needed to support mission.

Birmingham, Al, Us

Directed The Center for Sales Leadership at UAB -- Center trains students in b to b sales and helped partner companies SELL.BETTER.FASTER(TM).Developed multiple sponsor/partner clients, increased enrollment in programs over 300%, delivered and developed funded corporate training programs, and introduced innovative sales mentor program.Regular and adjunct courses have include International Marketing, Professional Development, Capstone Strategy Course for MBA Program, Investments, and Professional Sales Management.

Birmingham, Alabama, Us

Provides strategic and tactical business consulting and advisory services to the Chief Business Officer, Southern Research. Southern Research is a full-service Contract Research Organization (CRO) providing services to the pharmaceutical industry from drug discovery through drug development including toxicology testing. Southern Research was founded in 1941, has produced 20 FDA approved drugs and has over 250 experts and staff.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Asha means Hope. Asha’s vision is to bring hope in the lives of patients. We work with our clients through the solid form screening and selection process. We help enhance the bioavailability of poorly soluble new drugs, helping them get to the market faster and reduce drug development costs.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Benuvia Manufacturing is a leading developer and manufacturer of high-purity pharmaceutical active pharmaceutical ingredients and drug products. Benuvia has special expertise in Cannabinoids and has experience manufacturing products from pre-clinical to commercial from its FDA inspected facility in Round Rock, Texas. Led company emerging from bankruptcy by building out all aspects of the company's organization. Transformed company into a full-service API and DP multi-customer CDMO. Company had a successful liquidity event in Q4 2021.

Écublens, Vaud, Ch

Senior Director, Business Development at Patheon, now part of Thermo Fisher. Patheon is one of the world's leaders in the contract manufacturing of pharmaceutical products - including drug substance, formulation, clinical packaging and supplies and drug product manufacturing. Along with a global team of business development executives, responsible for Patheon's API new business development.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

• Directed global sales and marketing for Codexis, a $33+mm supplier of custom made enzymes and chemical products for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors.• Through a combination of increased sales and account intensity in the global sales force, within 9 months of joining the company, sold out the R and D service portion of the business. Negotiated key agreements with key customers in 2 different industries which have the potential to change the historic trajectory of Codexis.• Innovative marketer - Conceived and developed marketing campaign including the “Hit from a Kit™” campaign. Expert at employing non-traditional and guerilla marketing tactics to broaden brand awareness and create energy. • Recognized by industry as a leader, elected as one of the 5 (of 20) board members from a supplier company to the board of Rx-360. Rx-360 is an international pharmaceutical supply chain consortium comprised of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies and their suppliers which was established to ensure safety and security of the pharmaceutical supply chain.

• Directed global sales and marketing for AFC, a $100mm++ supplier of custom made chemicals for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors.• Leadership in sales and marketing directly contributed to a >50% increase in company sales and a threefold increase in company's market valuation during tenure at AFC. • Effective sales and marketing activities led to complete utilization of the early phase development assets of AFC. Led a marketing campaign which resulted in “Most Successful Informex" (Trade Show) in the 50+ year history of the company. • Initiated and directed International Agent Sales activities.

• Led a sales and marketing team of 7 professionals worldwide. • Infused an immediate "can do" and high level of enthusiasm throughout the organization. Within 5 months of hire, had completely changed and realigned Global Sales team. Implemented Salesforce.com CRM where no CRM previously existed.• Put in place a sales visit discipline which in 6 months resulted in over 300 customer visits by sales team, a roughly 3 fold increase over 2008 visit totals. Rebranded each of the key business areas and developed new marketing and trade show materials.• Conceived and executed the "Girindus Leadership in Oligonucleotides Symposium" (Girindusglos.com) bringing 100 high level decisionmakers to Cincinnati to attend a world class symposium.

Verona, Vr, It

• Led a field sales team comprised of 11 professionals located throughout North America. Sales Responsibility: $200MM; 5 different business segments. Realigned Sales Team to focus on California and Boston. Successfully recruited 2 additional sales professionals while invigorating and recharging sales team. • Achieved over 100% of first year target. Quickly established credibility with Sales Team, Operating Unit Heads and Client base.

Heerlen, Limburg, Nl

• Responsible for the company’s business development activities with a focus on emerging pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies located in Massachusetts, the Southeast,and the Midwest US. • Within 17 months of joining DSM signed contracts totaling more than $6mm with three new emerging company clients. • Successfully completed a complex, high level internal and external negotiation at the executive level which in enabled account to grow more than 60% over 2005 volumes.

• Successfully led team which resulted in sale of Southern BioSystems (Drug Deliver) to Durect Corporation for $25MM.• Assumed responsibility for Birmingham Polymers (Director of Commericial Operations) unit (subsidiary of Durect) in July 2001. In May of 2001, the company's largest customer representing 42% of revenue ceased doing business with BPI. Within 4 months, completed restructure of the unit so that BPI was again profitable without the large customer. Completed this task without layoffs through increasing efficiency and dramatically expanding the customer base by 86% - from 146 to 255 customers.• Orchestrated buyout of a significant competitor, Absorbable Polymer Technologies. This complementary merger resulted in the technology and service leader in the biodegradable polymer marketplace, Absorbable Polymers International.• Transformed company from a $1MM polymer manufacturer and supplier to a $2MM++ high value added polymer manufacturer, technology partner, and medical device component developer. Successfully moved Absorbable Polymers International up the value chain by significantly broadening the types of products offered and enhancing the product and service offering of the company. • Within 6 months of merger, developed high level relationships within the Orthopedic Industry which resulted in 2 funded development agreements being signed with 2 leading companies in the Orthopedic space. (Reaction Molding Technology)

Completed acquisitions of Group companies including candidate evaluation, due diligence, negotiations, financing, closing, and transition of the new company into the Group.Responsible for divestiture of Group companies including business information preparation, prospective buyer development, liaison with intermediaries, company visits, negotiations, contract preparation, and closing.• Completed 26 transactions valued at over $65MM. IRR on typical sale >> 30%.• As Interim General Manager, directed turnaround of Hamilton Plastic Products. When the company acquired – annual revenue run rate $3.7MM and loss of major customer imminent. • Implemented action plan with major customer (Bob Tiffin, Tiffin Motor Homes) such that “at risk” Tiffin business retained. • Improved annual sales rate more than 50% by restoring other major customers in jeopardy, invigorating sales effort, improving plant absenteeism from 34% (daily) to less than 4%, and manufacturing a quality product delivered on-time.

• Directed all aspects of company start-up.• Awarded Pegasus Products Worldwide Distributor of the Year for opening more than 43 accounts in markets through-out Florida and South Georgia.

Responsible for sales of custom manufacturing opportunities (fine chemicals), excipients, andphotographic chemicals in the Northeast US.• Developed and executed plan for Eastman Fine Chemicals sales team with resulted in expanded market and greater focus on pharmaceutical excipients. Did ground breaking work with Ciba Geigy to help launch improved acrylic based enteric coating.• Completed an extensive study of the cellulosic enteric coated polymer market which included major and prospective customer, global product usage, and estimated market size.

• Developed and refined leadership skills as an officer assigned to a U.S. Nuclear Submarine (USS GEORGIA SSBN 729G)• Leadership. Earned qualification to be Officer of the Deck and Ships Duty Officer, responsible for all operations of the submarine while at sea or in port.• Engineering. Managed operation and maintenance of nuclear propulsion plant. Supervised 20 nuclear-trained operators and laboratory technicians. Administered a $1 million maintenance budget. Coordinated and supervised critical repairs and alterations to nuclear and propulsion systems.• Selected as Chief Nuclear Plant Engineer by Naval Reactors, Washington, DC, based on demonstrated exemplary abilities to manage personnel in routine and emergency situations and make decisions concerning the safety of a nuclear powered submarine and its nuclear reactor. • Submitted and had accepted beneficial suggestion which continues to save the U.S. Navy over $175,000+ annually in hazardous waste disposal costs.• Integral part of Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) team which oversaw software development and implementation of a worldwide command and control system used to provide a real-time display of military units location and readiness. (Joint Visually Integrated Display System – JVIDS). • Oversaw and personally led the installation and training for a spinoff system used in the U.S. counter-narcotics effort at 13 different military and civilian command centers throughout the world. (Anti-Drug Network).• Authored and put in place the first Department of Defense (DOD) policy statement on the Interoperability of Electronic Mapping Systems.• Served as Alabama's Navy Liaison for Emergency Preparedness. Deployed on 9/11 in support of the World Trade Center Attack.

B.S. Chemistry, Chemistry

Mba, Finance And Marketing

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemistry

The Business Of Biotechnology