Stephen Behm Email & Phone Number

United States

Toledo, Ohio Area

Happy to be part of the Innovation Ecosystem at Bon Secours Mercy Health!

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Developed and managed technology management, commercialization, and innovation programs to serve clinicians and employees. • Established and maintained relations with local, regional, and national business entities; promoted opportunities for entrepreneurial activity; and expanded the scope, mission, and vision of the program. • Executed most successful license in organization’s history. • Secured over $1M in grant support. • Created programs that generated over $1M in philanthropic support. • Drove hospital’s inclusion in The Disney Way and Parent’s Magazine as examples of innovative organizations, enhancing the hospital’s reputation and driving largest social media response in its history.

Founder of a consulting firm providing a broad range of business, intellectual property, strategy, engineering, manufacturing, and regulatory services to firms involved in medical markets. • Provided support to large healthcare organizations and Fortune 50 medical firms to small, early stage life science and medical product companies. List of clients includes Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, and Baxter Healthcare. • Started two other companies: Motion Back, LLC, and Synventus, LLC.

Greater Chicago Area

Led new initiative to maximize the organization's manufacturing utilization.

Business Development and Marketing for multi-disciplinary early stage medical device firm. I successfully identified license opportunities, negotiated and established broad technology agreements with research institutions, and successfully commercialized the company’s main product offering. • Led sales and marketing of key product area, generating net margins of over 75%. • Supported development of critical growth plan for company, leading to national NIH grant position (#1). • Managed all corporate communications.• Directed company’s market research and other supporting activities.

I provided business services to member companies and small start-up ventures in the biomedical and biotechnology fields. These services included marketing, legal, regulatory, and financing consultations, and implementation assistance throughout the state.• Managed early stage investment fund. • Supported technology development across Ohio.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Excelled at development and marketing of all new products. • Established customer interaction programs in sales and problem-solving situations, including domestic and international customer development.• Redesigned new product approval process, reducing approval time and cutting paperwork by 75%.• Led broad business development activities in the establishment of new vendors, distributors, customers, and strategic partners.• Introduced over 150 new products to support diagnostic and molecular biology research product lines, leading to over 33% of company net profits. • Organized and conducted training programs for distributors throughout the world, leading to increased sales and new market opportunities. • Instituted inventory management system, improving delivery and reducing costs by over 25%. • Created a strategic plan for growth, leading to development of new products for new and existing markets.

Ba, Biology, General Science

Mba, Marketing, Information Sciences

Coursework, Computer Science, Pass