Christopher Merrill Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

• Provide executive coaching and leadership training workshops to technical geniuses who struggle working with people. Transition your top technical talent to trusted team leaders who:
• Show up with confidence and credibility
• Communicate with impact
• Find and step into their leadership style & strengths
• Start strong in a new leadership role
• Collaborate with colleagues to generate great resultsDrawing from 20 years of industry experience, decades of leadership training, and a devotion to helping others be successful and happy at work.

Boston, MA, US

Served as a leadership coach and group facilitator for professionals enrolled in Executive Education programs at Harvard Business School. Facilitated group discussions on team dynamics and case presentations, and provided executive coaching for individuals and cohorts of executives on-site and remotely to support their leadership development. Participants.

San Diego, California, US

The Honor Foundation is a non-profit transition institute which provides executive education, professional development, career coaching, and transition management for the US Navy and Special Operations Forces (SOF) community. The Honor Foundation collaborates closely with the SOF community, top business schools and America’s finest companies in order to.

Boston, MA, US

As a Consultant at Camden Consulting Group, provide executive coaching and leadership development services to professionals at all levels, with a focus on individuals working in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. Camden focuses on the following consulting areas: 1) Leadership development; 2) Senior executive effectiveness; and 3) Talent.

Cambridge, MA, US

• This time period marked my transition from research to the business side of drug development during which my role and responsibilities increased incrementally from Manager to Senior Manager, Assistant Director.
• Generating capital from venture capital firms and public markets (prepared slide presentations, orchestrated due diligence process, drafted business section of S-1 registration statement)
• Executing collaboration and license agreements with large pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, universities, government agencies, and for non-profit organizations (completed $760M collaboration with a large.
• Interacted with senior executive team (finance, research, clinical development, regulatory, marketing, manufacturing) to assess value/feasibility of in-licensing opportunities and internal development products..
• Strengthening intellectual property portfolio through patent in-licensing
• PR/IR - drafted and issued press releases, designed/maintained website, presented at industry conferences

Cambridge, MA, US

While working in the business development function (above), facilitated collaboration, team building, and execution of business goals for all existing drug development partnerships, including a collaboration with a large pharmaceutical company, a large biotechnology company, a for non-profit organization, and our technology licensors. From this role.

Cambridge, MA, US

This role began my third adventure in a start-up organization (assembled desk on first day) and was especially exciting due to the novel science (immunological tolerance) the company was focused on. As a founding scientist (4th employee) was responsible for establishing preclinical proof of concept and completing GLP compliant studies to support the.

Fulfilled a long-time goal to live in San Francisco and tried something new by jumping inside the internet start-up bubble. In this role I learned how to conduct market research, design online surveys (HTML coding) and most importantly, learned how to provide excellent customer service. Conducted market research for corporate clients utilizing online.

As part of this role I had the fortunate opportunity to co-author the CMC section of the Biological License Application (BLA) for CAMPATH® (Alemtuzumab) that was approved for the treatment of chronic lymphopcytic leukemia. It is currently also approved for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (Lemtrada). Being a (albeit small) part of the team that helped.

As the research candidates transitioned into the development phase, I transitioned with them. As part of this role I designed, validated, and performed a clinical assay used to monitor pharmacokinetic activity of a humanized monoclonal antibody (LDP-01) therapy in a first-in-man study. Also completed the first non-clinical studies of Entyvio®.

Instead of pursuing medical school, I chose to stay in research and join a new start-up company as their 12th employee. This turned out to be a fortunate choice as LeukoSite was an exceptional organization that produced several therapies that are now approved as well as many future industry leaders. From this experience I learned the immeasurable value of.

Boston, MA, US

In this role I learned the basics of research and the scientific method in practice. This was perhaps the ideal first job for a researcher as Harvard is by nature a learning institution and this position provided exceptional learning and training opportunities. As a Research Assistant I played a significant role in several studies assessing the pathology.

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Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Psychology

Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies

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