Retired Product Development and Business Development Professional

Partnered with leading next-generation sequencing, molecular diagnostics, and synthetic biology companies to incorporate QIAGEN's enzymes, reagents, and sample preparation technology into their differentiated and innovative product and service platforms.



      QIAGEN
  

Developed business strategy and identified areas for external investment.  Sourced and screened potential external collaborators (industrial and academic) to fill technology and product portfolio gaps.  Prepared, negotiated, and executed commercial agreements that delivered over $250M in incremental revenue.


About us

  Our purpose is to solve the toughest problems in life science by collaborating with the global scientific community – and through that, we aim to accelerate access to better health for people everywhere. 

We provide scientists and engineers with best-in-class lab materials, technologies and services. With the 2015 combination of EMD Millipore and Sigma-Aldrich, we now have a broad portfolio of 300,000 products, an expanded global footprint and an industry-leading eCommerce platform - SigmaAldrich.com.

We are dedicated to making research and biotech production simpler, faster and safer.

The life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, operates as MilliporeSigma in the US and Canada. Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany is a global company with 40,000 employees in more than 60 countries.

Visit us at http://www.sigmaaldrich.com & http://www.emdmillipore.com/


      MilliporeSigma
  

Directed and managed an R&D team of 14 scientists and engineers tasked with developing products and assays used by pharmaceutical researchers to perform high throughput screening and development of drug candidates.  Products were sold and supported globally and generated over $25M in incremental annual sales.


Led and managed a team of 10 scientists and engineers tasked with developing specialty membranes and membrane-based devices used in diagnostic and medical device applications.  Developed critical materials used by most diagnostic companies to manufacture over-the-counter and doctors' office tests for pregnancy, ovulation prediction, infectious disease diagnosis, and drugs of abuse testing.  Developed products generate well over $50M in annual sales.
    
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Developed, as part of a research and development team, market-leading membranes used in genomics and proteomics research.  Led the development of membranes used in many FDA-approved, over-the-counter pregnancy, fertility monitoring, and drugs-of-abuse test kits.


About us

  Not intended for US & CA visitors. 

Merck Millipore is the Life Science division of Merck KGaA of Germany and offers a broad range of innovative, performance products, services and business relationships that enable our customers'​ success in research, development and production of biotech and pharmaceutical drug therapies. Through dedicated collaboration on new scientific and engineering insights, and as one of the top three R&D investors in the Life Science Tools industry, Merck Millipore serves as a strategic partner to customers and helps advance the promise of Life Science.  Headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts, the division has around 10,000 employees, operations in 68 countries and 2010 revenues of $2.2 billion. Merck Millipore is known as EMD Millipore in the U.S. and Canada.

Merck Millipore

Managed and directed a group of seven to ten scientists and technicians developing immunoassay reagents and kits used in the measurement of diagnostic biomarkers.  Prepared and submitted for review and approval by the FDA a number of product dossiers for in-vitro diagnostic test kits measuring human endocrine biomarkers.


Boston University School of Medicine

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Director, Business Development at QIAGEN

QIAGEN

Director, Business Development

MilliporeSigma

Director of Strategy and Business Development

MilliporeSigma

Director of Research and Development, Drug Discovery Products

MilliporeSigma

Director of Research and Development, OEM Medical Products

Merck Millipore

Research and Development Scientist

Cambridge Medical Diagnostics

Vice President of Research and Development

Boston University School of Medicine

Biochemistry

Ph.D.

University of Miami

Biology, Chemistry

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)