Customer-Driven Innovation: Exit the Vicious Circle of Failures

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Development is not feasible or cost-prohibitive

 Learn how to avoid these pitfalls, right from the start!
Join us for the seminar and networking at the newly-opened Mansfield Bio-Incubator on July 25, 2017.
Directions and Parking: http://bit.ly/2sad3m9  Ample parking across from the entrance.

Program Description:
Moderator: 

Eugene Buff, MD, PhD, Founder & President of Primary Care Innovation Consulting
 
Dr. Eugene Buff is a Registered Technology Transfer Professional (RTTP) and Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) with over twenty years of combined scientific, consulting and management experience. He has substantial expertise in a wide variety of industries, including but not limited to healthcare, biotechnology, medical devices, consumer products, materials and chemical manufacturing.
 
 Dr. Buff is a Founder and President of Primary Care Innovation Consulting (PCIC), a new type of innovation management and business development firm supporting companies’ growth through open innovation. PCIC provides technology strategy consulting for both large and small companies globally and has unique access to cutting edge innovation at universities, incubators and accelerators worldwide. Its signature product, Innovation Navigator™ offers comprehensive business development support by combining known theories (such as Lean Start Up, “Jobs-To-Be-Done” and Disruptive Innovation) with years of successful consulting practices. Dr. Buff also designs and delivers variety of training and educational programs on innovation, entrepreneurship, technology scouting and technology commercialization.
 
Dr. Buff earned his Master degree in Biochemistry as well as his Medical Doctor degree from Russian State Medical University. He is also a Ph.D. in Genetics and is a coauthor of 14 papers in peer reviewed international journals. Eugene is an active member of the Licensing and Technology Transfer community and serves on several committees and task forces at AUTM and LES. He is a member on many consulting and professional network organizations and often mentors and presents on issues of Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property, Innovation and Technology Transfer both in US and internationally. 

 
Panelists:

Jeffrey Thumm, President, Duke Devices, LLC
Mr. Thumm is an engineer, entrepreneur, and businessman with over 40 years of experience in new product development and in driving early-stage businesses.  Most of his work has been in medical devices, medical equipment, and chemical sensing and controls for chemical processing.  Mr. Thumm holds BSEE and MBA degrees and has seven patents granted in communications, non-linear sensors, and chemical processing. He is the inventor and patent holder for hydraulically-driven, intense-energy, in-line chemical mixer-reactors and for continuous-energy, particle-reduction processors. 
Through his career, Mr. Thumm has worked with over 30 early stage companies and formed three technology-based companies.  In collaboration with research doctors, PhD chemists and industrial R&D, Mr. Thumm's companies have developed instrumentation solutions for chemical sensing platforms, microfluidic-slide HIV detectors, and microfluidic disks for combinatorial chemistry.  Mr. Thumm's current work includes running a small team in developing a wireless sensor, data-to-cloud solution for remote applications such as pharma processing, agricultural and oil & gas. 
 

Sophie Chapelle, Managing Director, Golden Seeds
Ms. Chapelle currently works with two Angel Investment Networks: Golden Seeds, investing in women-lead businesses; and 37Angels, a women-only investment group; to review and select for-profit companies for seed investment. In addition, she is a Mentor at the MIT Enterprise Forum, Member of the Board for the National Biomedical Research Foundation (NBMRF) and as Strategic Advisor to Bentley College’s Center for Integration of Science and Industry (CISI). Ms. Chapelle leverages her 20+ years of experience in the business and operations of biopharmaceutical R&D with an academic educational background in business, finance, and operations from Columbia University and in chemical engineering and pharmacology from University of Brussels, Belgium (ULB) and Lille (France). Her credentials are rooted in 23+ years in roles of growing responsibilities in sales & marketing, strategy, financial, operations and people management in large companies such as Pfizer and UCB as well as several smaller organizations.
 
What Will You Learn?
Attendees will learn what questions they need to address, ideally before embarking on the product development, or if they hit a stumbling block along the way. In addition, the goal of the panel discussion is to help service providers such as law firms, CRO/CMOs, engineering firms, etc., on how to become not just service providers but also more effective partners and mentors to shorten the timelines and use the resources more efficiently, or in some cases when to "pull the plug" before it is too late.
 
Who Should Attend?
Life science (biotech, pharma, medical device) entrepreneurs, academic faculty or students/postdocs, scientists from large biotech/pharma/medical devices who would like to commercialize their discoveries.

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