Shawna Khouri Email & Phone Number

Tulsa, OK, US

Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

Tulsa Metropolitan Area

Shapes TIL’s strategic direction, organization, mission, and oversee all healthcare-related programs and activitiesResearches local, national, and global tech trends as well as best practices in economic development and innovation ecosystem- building through primary and secondary sources, focusing on ways in which to grow Tulsa’s healthcare innovation.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Provided key business development expertise for medical device for percutaneous treatment of chronic tendon pain
• Secured the initial external non-dilutive funds for product refinement
• Provides ongoing operational support

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Norman, Oklahoma, United States

• Created regulatory and reimbursement assessments for each project
• Developed product to market plans and timelines and with supplementary business data
• Coached teams on product positioning, primary market research and pitch development

Greater Atlanta Area

• Led foundation-supported fund that provides extensive diligence, milestone-driven funding, and business expertise to academic-stage biomedical technologies that improve healthcare by addressing currently unmet clinical.
• Demonstrated consistent results from funding oversight resulting in an aggregate of 20 start-ups, 2 industry licenses, 3 products on the market over a 4 year period
• Managed $1.5M in annual funding budget, program management, project management, and diligence. Each dollar invested has been leveraged 6.8x times in follow on funding
• Generated and implemented multi-year strategic plans for the Fund’s continued growth and impact, resulting in a 40% deal flow increase over previous year
• Identified and successfully established partnerships with industry sponsors, serial entrepreneurs, foundations, and follow-on investors for portfolio technologies

• Generated strategies to create program sustainability and growth for the fund
• Managed applicant pipeline and funded project portfolio milestone progress and budgets
• Recruited investors, industry executives, and entrepreneurs to expand breath of Oversight Committee subject matter knowledge and expertise across healthcare verticals
• Coordinated teams of consultants and internal personnel to provide market, regulatory, and reimbursement diligence and strategy
• Implemented continuous improvement of application and diligence processes

Greater Atlanta Area

• Evaluated 50+ projects/year, including business plans, identified risks, initiating partnerships with potential strategic partners, and securing business mentorship.
• Developed commercialization and exit strategies for broad range of technologies and clinical applications across medical devices, health IT, therapeutics, biologics, and diagnostics
• Managed 6-8 diverse technology development projects’ with corresponding inter-disciplinary teams to successfully execute technical, commercial, and business development milestones

Consultant advising NIH SBIR & RO1 funded projects on fundamentals of business case development. Specific responsibilities include: - Regulatory and reimbursement assessment for each project- Developing product to market timeline and plan with supplementary business data- Business case development and coaching of teams- Pitch coaching- Go to market.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Forge Health (now Sling Health) is a 501(c)3 non-profit that provides a series of programs to help connect engineers, clinicians, investors, and entrepreneurs to solve the most challenging problems in healthcare.
• Led strategy, planning, and execution of the first digital health-specific accelerator in Atlanta
• Of the 5 participants in the cohort, 4 are still going concerns, have products on the market, and have raised over $5M in follow on funding

Greater Atlanta Area

• Developed market strategy and verification testing methodologies for a device to reduce risk of hospital acquired infection
• Coordinated trial protocol for initial clinical assessment of ophthalmology diagnostic technology
• Conducted ethnographic research to aid in user need definition for a pediatric laparoscopic grasper
• Evaluated clinical and market strategies for predictive at-home patient monitoring systems for congestive heart failure

Master Of Biomedical Innovation And Development, Bioid

Activities and Societies: Alpha Chi Sigma, ForgeOne year master's program focused on developing commercialization knowledge for medical.

Bachelor Of Science, Biomedical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Alpha Chi Sigma, Teaching Assistant - GT1000Graduated with High Honors Honors Program

Spring 2011 Exchange Program

Activities and Societies: Erasmus Student Network, UCD Women's Basketball