Business Development for Startup Banking in Life Sciences and Healthcare in West

The Elect Advisory was founded upon seeing the need from founders and executive teams in navigating (e.g. technical and operational) aspects of the start-up, from business needs to the mental health of the founders and team. -Mentoring and advising SEA and Asian startups like SG youth mental health, KR mental health for intellectually disabled youth, US/EU device for disabled mobility/accessibility-Meeting with funding and VC introductions and pitches, international expansion and identifying vendors, connecting co-founder/advisor candidates, product/feature and research development, and regulatory advisors/consultants reducing overhead by 25% and expediting timelines by +2 yrs.-Introduce Founders to candidate Co-founders, Mentors, and Advisors according to needed skill-set and expertise such as QiHealth with a UI/UX design Advisor and CTO.-Organizing Global Zoom calls with panels specific industry topics (VC funding environment, Climate Tech Mass vs Micro Production) and in-person events in Asia and SEA to connect Awardees post-COVID to address lack of in-person summits and Regional Board (similar to those in the US) -Connecting startups with government agencies

KYAN Therapeutics raised USD $5.0M for its Pre-Series A funding and is developing a powerful digital medicine based platform to individualize drug recommendations for solid and blood cancer patients. KYAN is a winner of the 2021 Hello Tomorrow Asia Pacific Challenge and finalist in Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge.-Developed with the executive team the overall strategy for indication selection, drug library selection, partnerships, and IP positioning and acquisitions.-Developed the regulatory strategy for device risk classification, protocol development, and filing road map. -Enhanced drug combination optimization capabilities of the core technology platform with the technical team.-Development of and optimizing novel combinatorial therapies with IDentifAI, CURATE.AI, QPOP for oncology, infectious diseases, and food production.

Investigate the effects of digital therapeutic devices on mental and physical health, including gathering evidential support for approval when appropriate. Hire, mentor, and manage a team of 15+ clinicians, research fellows, QA team members, and engineers in Singapore and the US on technical and regulatory aspects in developing AI-based digital heath and digital therapeutic platforms. Collaborate with teams to understand the needs of stakeholders inside and outside the company, translate requirements into research questions, write research protocols for studies addressing questions, and oversee study execution. Key Highlights: -$22.6M+ in awarded grants/funding earned through excellent written and verbal communication skills.-Landed the cover article as the lead author for developing the CURATE.AI as a Class B medical device as both clinical decision support system (CDSS) and digital therapeutics for oncology, immunosuppression, and N-of-1 learning trajectory profiles for cognitive decline and personalized learning. -Received the Pathfinder Award from Singapore Computer Society and earned two clinical trials for Taiwan & Singapore for efforts in leading the development of IDentif.AI as a Class A medical device and CDSS for COVID-19 treatment.-15 first-in-kind pilot to phase II clinical trials approved through efforts in leading the technical strategy and clinical trial programs, driven by the development of digital health and digital therapeutic platforms. Competencies: End-to-End Trial Management | Project Management | Budget Management | Problem Solving | Leadership | Time Management | Vendor Management | Vendor Negotiation | Cost Control | QA & QC Processes | Reporting | Grants & Funding | Risk Management | Team Management | Onboarding & Training | Virtual Studies | Digital Health | Clinical Development Process | Clinical Research

Monitored activities in compliance with FDA regulations and ICH/GCP guidelines. Managed the activities of the clinical investigative sites to ensure successful execution of the protocol and confirmed that trial data are accurate, complete, and verifiable from source documents.Key Highlights:-$100,000 NSF grant awarded for education tools by collaborating with Pasadena Arts Center DesignMatters for a STEAM initiative to teach and engage children about nano and personalized medicine by creating a mobile game with nanodiamond characters Nora and Neil.-Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and research highlighted by NIH’s director’s blog due to investigating nanodiamond mediated drug delivery; designed a prospective interventional first-in-human phase II/III study and patent.Competencies: End-to-End Trial Management | Project Management | Budget Management | Problem Solving | Leadership | Time Management | Vendor Management | Vendor Negotiation | Cost Control | QA & QC Processes | Reporting | Grants & Funding | Risk Management | Team Management | Onboarding & Training | Virtual Studies | Digital Health | Clinical Development Process | Clinical Research

Monitored activities in compliance with FDA regulations and ICH/GCP guidelines. Managed the activities of the clinical investigative sites to ensure successful execution of the protocol and confirmed that trial data are accurate, complete, and verifiable from source documents.Key Highlights:• $100,000 NSF grant awarded for education tools by collaborating with Pasadena Arts Center DesignMatters for a STEAM initiative to teach and engage children about nano and personalized medicine by creating a mobile game with nanodiamond characters Nora and Neil.• Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and research highlighted by NIH’s director’s blog due to investigating nanodiamond mediated drug delivery; designed a prospective interventional first-in-human phase II/III study and patent.Competencies: End-to-End Trial Management | Project Management | Budget Management | Problem Solving | Leadership | Time Management | Vendor Management | Vendor Negotiation | Cost Control | QA & QC Processes | Reporting | Grants & Funding | Risk Management | Team Management | Onboarding & Training | Virtual Studies | Digital Health | Clinical Development Process | Clinical Research

Subject matter expert, teaching and mentoring students to engage in assigned coursework, including mock NIH proposals and pitch competitions. Offered specialized instructions on challenging topics, using technology to interact with students in both group and one-on-one settings.Key Highlights:• $15,000 grant secured from the Office of Instructional Development (OID) to expand prototyping capabilities in the teaching lab facilities with mini-CNC machines and to include instruction of MATLAB, COMSOL, and SolidWorks for undergraduate students.• 2nd place IEEE EMBS ISC (International Student Conference) earned by mentoring student teams on mock NIH proposals, deliverables management, publications (Neurophotonics), and patent applications; additional international competitions included NIH DEBUT Finalist and ASAIOfyi Finalist.Competencies: End-to-End Trial Management | Project Management | Budget Management | Problem Solving | Leadership | Time Management | Vendor Management | Vendor Negotiation | Cost Control | QA & QC Processes | Reporting | Grants & Funding | Risk Management | Team Management | Onboarding & Training | Virtual Studies | Digital Health | Clinical Development Process | Clinical Research

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•Team advisor and mentor to UCLA Capstone Design Group exploring stability mechanism for Radiofrequency (RF) cardiac ablation catheters•Pursued grant funds for an undisclosed novel debridement system for use in partial-thickness burn treatment without collateral damage to viable tissue within and adjacent to the target area competing with IBM’s parallel pursuit of a similar debridement system

Assigned a variety of activities related to funded research and academics, providing administrative and clinical support. Major duties included triage paperwork, maintaining confidential filing systems, data entry, preparing and distributing correspondence, updating and distributing research charts and study logs, preparing investigational drug reports, obtaining study participant records, and more. Key Highlight:-Presented to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a Tuberculosis project; published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Competencies: End-to-End Trial Management | Project Management | Budget Management | Problem Solving | Leadership | Time Management | Vendor Management | Vendor Negotiation | Cost Control | QA & QC Processes | Reporting | Grants & Funding | Risk Management | Team Management | Onboarding & Training | Virtual Studies | Digital Health | Clinical Development Process | Clinical Research