It's a fairly convoluted story. I actually work in biotech, and I'm a director of strategy and business development. But I actually went to three different colleges. I basically stopped once in the middle because I didn't really know why I was trying to major and when I was majoring in so they were very roundabout way. I wound up majoring in biology. I wound up getting a doctorate in cell molecular biology and genetics and then actually went on, did a post doc in virology. Before I finally realized that I wanted Thio work in business on, I actually completely switched over and started a career in market which evolved into, AH, product management, marketing management on business development. So it's, um, there's nothing predictable, predictable or normal about the path bond. Frequently, I like to show this through with people because it shows that you can never go so far done one path that you can't completely change direction and do something different. Onda. More importantly, I think the job that I'm in now is not a job that's very well defined, and it's not commonly known. Thio people looking for careers in business or in biotech or or farm

so that in general, the idea of business development. And so I consider myself a business development professional and that some business development is really about network working, uh, performing strategic analysis and so really everything that my business or that the portion of the company that I support that has to do with third party in organic solutions. That's my responsibility. I don't I have evolved into a role where I don't have any direct reports, work in a group of five people that support two billion your own business. So we have a lot of worldwide responsibility over a very broad business, but there are a lot of different functional groups we work with. So I I constantly work in teams of 3 to 10 people where there's a marketing representative and R and D representative and then many other functional groups, such as manufacturing or quality or operations of regulatory. But my job is to interface with third parties. I spend 1 to 2 weeks per month on the road interfacing with companies having steering committee meetings. Um, the pipeline turns over very quickly, so it's a lot of fresh faces and fresh opportunities every month in a recorder, but I don't know if that spoke to the responsibilities. The responsibilities at the end of the day are to structure and negotiate deals and get agreements in place that further the needs of our business. Eso its's a number of components that go into that, and part of it draws on my technical background. Part of it draws on my marketing background, but I probably spend more time doing finance and legal work than than anything else nowadays.

e guess the challenges what why I've over the last 20 years has grown into a job that I really thoroughly enjoy. And I think the challenge is that its different every day I wake up every morning and I have very little idea what emergencies were gonna come about when I open my email for first thing in the morning. It's a different set of challenges every day, and it's again. It's not very predictable. Eso I think I've I've I have to accept change. I've come to appreciate that when things get too settled into predictable, it's not as much fun and it Z, there's no challenge. There is no fun for me. Eso I think, to keep an open mind and to be flexible and to be responsive, that's that's all. I could do it