Potential Roles & Contributions

• Product & status assessment

• Tactical oversight & “hands-on” participation to execute projects

• Technical expertise & project / program management

• Management-level input for strategy and decision-making

• Implementation of robust, business-specific processes and structure for product development, manufacturing operations, and other business functions

Examples of Projects

• Interim oversight of business function (e.g., manufacturing operations) during absence or hiring delay.

• Assess technical feasibility and business case prior to business creation and/or financing commitment.

• Engage as independent design reviewer for a system-level product comprising instrumentation, software, consumables, and reagents.

• Participate in reagent products and/or consumables design, optimization, and testing.

• Provide tactical-level technical project management (i.e., timeline and/or budget creation, tracking, reporting).

• Customize and deploy a stage-gate product development process to match regulatory, quality, and cultural needs of a new product development organization.

• Create recommended manufacturing transfer and scale-up strategy factoring product maturity, anticipated volumes, quality control status, internal know-how, and costs/timelines of internal and outsource options. 

Fields

• Life science tools and services for research and translational applications

• Technology platforms for discovery, screening & development of cell-based and molecular therapies

• Molecular and cell-based diagnostics 

System-Level Products & Technologies

• Single-cell profiling/omics

• Droplet microfluidics

• Digital PCR

• Emulsion PCR for NGS clonal amplification

• CTC enrichment by negative depletion

Scientific & Technical Expertise

• Microfluidics technology and consumables

• Reagents & kits

• Emulsion technology

• Fluorosurfactant chemistry

• Photo-initiated and crosslinking polymerizations

Product Development

• Product strategy & business case assessment

• Product & technology feasibility

• Product engineering, optimization, and V&V

• Project management

  • • Stage-gate development process

    • Tactical planning, tracking & reporting

    • Manufacturing transfer

Manufacturing & Laboratory Operations

• Quality system and infrastructure set-up

• Production & QC

• ERP

• Product distribution

• Service model implementation

Start-up Business Operations

• Strategic partner relations and financing

• Operating budget creation and monitoring

• Business infrastructure set-up

  • • Recruiting / payroll / HR

    • Finance & accounting / ERP 

    • Infrastructure / facilities / IT