INSIGHTS / The Experts: Tom Goodman (Cooley)/ Simon Burr & Campbell Stewart (Novo Venture Holdings) - Getting ready for Due Diligence
Tom Goodman - Partner at Cooley
Mark Jones - Associate at Cooley
Simon Burr - Senior Associate at Novo Ventures Holding
Campbell Stewart - VP at Novo Ventures Holding
INSIGHTS/ The CEO: Barnaby Balmforth (BioFidelity) - Competing on the international stage
Barnaby Balmforth - CEO and Co-Founder of BioFidelity
Barnaby’s strategic approach to team building on both sides of the Atlantic - emphasizing the recruitment of top talent, fostering an agile and innovative culture, and aligning the team with BioFidelity’s global mission - has been critical to the company’s rapid growth and international success.
INSIGHTS/ The CEO: Koenraad Wiedhaup (Leyden Labs) - Building your investment case
Koenraad Wiedhaup - Founder and CEO at Leyden Labs
Koenraad has a background in science, studying Life Sciences and Biotechnology at the Universities of Leiden and Delft and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York.
INSIGHTS / The Investor: Sean Kendall (Partner Arch Ventures)- Succeeding in fundraising from US investors
Sean Kendall - Partner at ARCH
A chemical engineer and synthetic biologist by training, Mr. Kendall was an early employee with LS9, Inc. (acquired by Genomatica), where he developed an automated experimentation and analysis platform for their synthetic biology platform.
INSIGHTS / The CEO: Jan Lichtenberg (InSphero) - Thinking Bigger
Jan Lichtenberg - Co-founder and CEO at InSphero
Jan is an engineer and laboratory automation expert with 20 years of experience in the life sciences. Jan earned his PhD in Microtechnology and Microfluidics at the University of Neuchâtel. He is a former Head of R&D and Product Management in the medical-device company Hocoma AG and Uwatec AG.
Female Founder Exchange - Marina Udier (CEO of Nouscom)
Marina Udier - CEO at Nouscom
In our new Female Founder Exchange Series, we will be asking seasoned life science CEOs to name the three biggest challenges (personal and/or professional) that they have encountered or are encountering by virtue of being a female leader and share what they did or are doing to overcome them.
INSIGHTS / The Experts: François Candelon & Leonid Zhukov (BCG Henderson Institute) - How can GenAI expand your workforce?
François Candelon & Leonid Zhukov - BCG Henderson Institute
François Candelon is currently a Partner at Seven2, a French private equity firm. Previously, he served as the Global Director of the BCG Henderson Institute (2019-2024).
Leonid Zhukovis the Director of the BCG Global AI Institute, where he plays a pivotal role in exploring how artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI (GenAI), can transform industries.
INSIGHTS/ The CEO: Billy Boyle (Owlstone Medical) - Challenges when building your team
Billy Boyle - CEO at Owlstone Medical Ltd
Billy is an engineering graduate from the University of Cambridge. He is one of the original co-founders of Owlstone Inc,.
INSIGHTS/ The Expert: Cheryl Strauss Einhorn - What kind of decision maker are you?
Cheryl Strauss Einhorn - Founder of Decisive
Cheryl is an author and long time educator, having taught at Columbia Business School for over a decade and currently teaching at Cornell University’s SC Johnson School of Business and Cornell Tech.