Join FountainBlue's community for life science entrepreneurs.
FountainBlue offers networking, education and support for entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley by conducting monthly entrepreneurs' forums for high tech and life science and clean energy entrepreneurs. These monthly lunch meetings are designed to share successes and challenges in a safe environment, focused on helping fellow members run and grow their entrepreneurial ventures.
About Our Entrepreneurs' Forums
FountainBlue's Life Science Entrepreneurs' Forums are open to life science entrepreneurs & their teams (such as staff members, advisers, board members or investors) with a wide range of entrepreneurial experience, at various stages of growing or supporting a new or existing entrepreneurial venture. In general, the program topics for the first six months of the year are focused on securing funds for life science organizations while the topics for the second six months of the year focus more on executing and running a business. For notes on previous sessions, visit http://www.fountainblue.biz/resources/lifesciencenotes.html.
Life Sciences Entrepreneurs include:
Medical devices, including therapeutic devices and diagnostic tools
Drug delivery - Pharmaceuticals and other drug delivery
Bio-nano, etc.,
Who Is Invited
Please note that we help ensure the quality of our programs by strictly restricting attendance to entrepreneurs and investors only, no service providers, except for presenters and sponsors, which are limited and by invitation only. We thank you in advance for respecting our policy.
Rough Meeting Agenda
5:30 Registration, Appetizers and Networking
6:00 Welcomes and Introductions
6:15 Facilitator Comments and Panelist Introductions
6:20 Interactive Panelist Discussion
6:50 Questions from the Audience
7:25 Final Comments from Facilitators
7:30 Thank Yous and Close, Networking
Sponsorship
We are grateful for the sponsorship of DLA Piper. Our monthly events will be held in their Silicon Valley offices at 2000 University in East Palo Alto.
We are delighted to announce our next panel, to be held on Monday, August 18, entitled "Issues in Collaborative Development".
Large pharmaceutical companies are increasingly entering into collaborations with biotech companies in order to obtain access to new technologies, enhance their internal R&D programs, and add to their product pipelines.These relationships provide many benefits to biotechs, including targeted funding and access to big pharma's unparalleled expertise in developing and bringing products to market.While life science collaborations can be mutually beneficial, they are also extremely complicated and present unique challenges for both sides.This months panel will discuss key issues in structuring and executing successful collaborations in the life science industry.
Facilitator/moderator:
·J. Howard Clowes, Partner, DLA Piper LLP
Panelists:
·Mike Brasseur, Sr Director, Jazz Pharma (tentative)
·Adam Bristol, Investor, Biotechnology Value Fund (tentative)
·Jim I McLoughlin, Executive Director, Worldwide Business Development & Pfizer Venture Capital; Pfizer Inc. - Biotherapeutics and Bioinnovations Center
·John Wulf, EVP & CBO, Trellis Bioscience
Click here for late or on-site registration.
We are grateful to our sponsors at DLA Piper who make our work possible.
Below is a calendar for our 2008 life science entrepreneurs' forums, to take place in the evenings from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at DLA Piper in East Palo Alto.
Date
Title
Facilitator and Panelists
Tuesday, January 22
Life Science Angels Panel: Investment Trends in 08
Facilitator Aliki Helman, serial entrepreneur and former corporate exec
Panelist Stuart Eckmann, Keiretsu Forum and Life Science Angels (Bio and Device Committees)
Panelist Elaine Heron, Life Science Angels and LabCyte
Panelist Bob Molinari, MedStars
Panelist Don Ross, Life Science Angels and Sand Hill Angels
Tuesday, February 19
Incubating Life Science Companies
Facilitator Ted Spack, SRI International
Panelist Gayle Fagan, Managing Director, San Jose Biocenter
Panelist Jim Rurka, co-founder of Blanca Pharmaceuticals
Panelist Dave Yeomans, Trigemina Inc.
Monday, March 17
Partnering with Life Science Corporations
Facilitator Bruce W. Jenett, Partner, DLA Piper
Panelist Rob Abrams, Vice President New Business Development / New Ventures, Boston Scientific
Panelist Martin Doyle, Director of Mergers and Acquisitions, Applied Biosystems
Panelist Graeme R Martin Ph.D., Takeda Research Investment Inc
Panelist Ali Nasser, Director of Business Development, Roche Molecular Systems
Monday, April 21
Trends in Pharma
Facilitator Ted Spack, Senior Director of Business Development, SRI International
Panelist Dick Haiduck, Partner to the CEO of Implicit Bioscience and Cytopia
Panelist David Summa, CEO, Acumen Pharmaceuticals
Panelist Dr. Nicholas Saccomano, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Exploratory Science and Technology, Pfizer
Monday, May 19
Trends in the Medical Device Development
Facilitator Bruce W. Jenett, Partner, Co-Chair, Global Life Sciences Sector, DLA Piper US LLP
Rob Abrams, Operating Partner, Sanderling Ventures; former Vice President New Business Development/ New Ventures, Boston Scientific Corporation
Richard M. Ferrari, Managing Director, De Novo Ventures
William T. Harrington, MD, Partner, Three Arch Partners
Geetha Rao, Serial Medical Device Entrepreneur and Executive, Springborne Life Sciences and Triple Ring Technologies
Monday, June 16
Holiday Break
n/a
Monday, July 21
Holiday Break
n/a
Monday, August 18
Issues in Collaborative Development
Facilitator/moderator: Howard Clowes, Partner, DLA Piper LLP Panelists: Mike Brasseur, Sr Director, Jazz Pharma Adam Bristol, Investor, Biotechnology Value Fund Jim I McLoughlin, Executive Director, Worldwide Business Development & Pfizer Venture Capital; Pfizer Inc. - Biotherapeutics and Bioinnovations Center John Wulf, EVP & CBO, Trellis Bioscience
Monday, September 15
From Strategy to Execution: Growing Your Company to the Next Level
Facilitator TBD
Matt Birdsall, Director of Ventures & New Product Development, Medtronics (tentative)
Bill Goure, Ph.D., COO, Acumen Pharmaceuticals
David Horwitz, M.D., Ph.D., World Wide Vice-President of Clinical Affairs and Evidence-Based Medicine, LifeScan
Ed Torres, Managing Director, Lilly Ventures
Monday, October 20
Show Me the Money: from Angels to Grants to VCs
Facilitator Bruce W. Jenett, Partner, DLA Piper
Panelist Gino Di Sciullo, Ph.D., Charter Life Sciences
Panelist Mark Klopp, Managing Director, Coronis Medical Ventures
Monday, November 17
International Partnerships for Life Science Execs
Sponsor as facilitator
Anson Fatland, Senior Associate, Burrill & Company
Barry Hotchkies, Keiretsu Forum, former VP and CFO, Epitomics
Other Panelists to be confirmed
Monday, December 15
Holiday Break
n/a
We are grateful to our partners and speakers for our 2007 programs and proudly acknowledge them below.
Date
Title
Facilitator
Tuesday, February 20
Corporate Investments in Life Science Companies
Facilitator Geetha Rao Panelist Linda Greub, Business Development, Applied Biosystems Panelist Eran Raber, Director, New Business and Venture Investments, Agilent Technologies Panelist Simon Greenwood, Ph.D., Senior Manager, Business Development, Genentech, Inc.
Monday, March 19
Positioning Your Life Science Company for Outside Funding
Facilitator Geetha Rao Panelist Brian Boyer, Perkins Coie LLP Panelist John Cornwell Life Science Angel Panelist Ken Martin, Onset Ventures Panelist David Miller Founder, InnoSpine
Monday, April 16
R&D Funding Opportunities
Facilitator Brian Boyer, Perkins Coie LLP Panelist Jeff Fairman, founder and senior research director, Juvaris Panelist Tom Gutshall, Founder and Former CEO, Current Chairman of Cepheid Panelist David Light, Business Builders
Tuesday, May 22
Trends in Life Science Investing
Facilitator Roy Fiebiger, Sanford Rose and Associates Panelist Andrew Farquharson, InCube Ventures Panelist Nina Kjellson, Partner, InterWest Partners Panelist John Maroney, General Partner, Delphi Ventures Panelist Kevin Wasserstein, Versant Ventures
Monday, June 18
Successful Entrepreneur Panel
Facilitator Roy Fiebiger, Sanford Rose and Associates Panelist Brent Contstantz, Skeletal Kinetics LLC Panelist Charlie Wen, Current founder and CTO, Tensegrity, former CEO of OrthoClear, Karegiver, former director of engineering and Align Technology Panelist Tony Zhang, PhD President, CEO and Chairman Formurex
Monday, July 16
Your Company's Value Proposition
Facilitator Sharon Lewis, President, Strategic Impact, Inc. Panelist Valli Bindana, President & Creative Director, KreativeVistas Panelist Ruth Cavagnaro, CEO, ChorusWare (Astia Portfolio Company) Panelist Chisato Ishii, Investment Partner, JAIC America, Inc. Panelist Ken Macrae, PhD, MD, EVP and Serial CEO Panelist John Reed, Global Operations, Agilent Technologies Panelist - Fred Seddiqui, CEO, Avantis Medical Systems, Inc.
Monday, August 20
Outsourcing Options for Life Science Companies
Co-Facilitator Simon Goldbard, Ph.D., Corex Co-Facilitator Matt Perez, NearSoft Panelist Oren Beske, Ph.D., Director, Aragen Bioscience, Inc. Panelist Simon Greenwood, Senior Manager, Business Development, Genentech, Inc. Panelist Alshad S. Lalani, Ph.D., Director, Preclinical & Translational Oncology, Novacea, Inc. Panelist Angie You, COO Ren Pharmaceuticals
Monday, September 17
Navigating Government Regulations
Facilitators Linda Judge and Alan Schwartz Ocio from DLA Piper Panelist Anar Kotadia, MSS Consulting and Chair San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society, formerly with Abbott, (with medical device perspective), RAPS Panelist Alan Jacobs, Acorn Biomedical (early stage clinical development) Panelist Geetha Rao (with a medical device perspective ) Panelist Rick Srigley, CEO & President of Aragen Bioscience
Monday, October 15
Marketing and Sales Operations for Life Science Entrepreneurs
Facilitator, Sharon Lewis, Founder and President, Strategic Impact, Inc. Panelist, Neelam Vaidya, Co-Founder and CEO, ChiroSolve Panelist, Rajiv Mehta, Co-Founder and CEO, Zume Life Panelist, Martin Babler, Entrepreneur, former VP Sales and Marketing Immunology, Genentech Inc. Panelist, Michael Mitchell, VP Marketing, Cantimer Panelist, Dan Galles, General Partner, HLM Venture Partners
Monday, November 19
Building An A+ Life Science Management Team
Facilitator Roy Fiebiger, Managing Partner, Sanford Rose Associates Panelist Chuck Brynelsen, CEO of IntraPace Panelist Dan Galles, General Partner, HLM Venture Partners Panelist Jonathan Goldman, MD., CMO Panelist Zack Scott, Director, Burrill & Company
Monday, December 17
Holiday Break
n/a
We are grateful to each of our 2006 facilitators and panelists for their participation and support and proudly acknowledge them below.
Date
Title
Facilitator
Monday, September 18
Life Sciences Entrepreneurs' Forum, Theme: Bringing the Product to Market
Melinda Richter, San Jose Bioscience Center Michael Shuster, Fenwick & West
Monday, October 16
Life Sciences Entrepreneurs' Forum Theme: Preparing for Outside Investors
Ken Macrae Geetha Rao Sergio Garcia
Monday, November 20
Life Sciences Entrepreneurs' Forum Theme: Building an A+ Life Science Management Team
Roy Fiebieger Tom Afzal, CEO of SpinalKinetics Andrew Farquharson, InCube Mike Hall, Latham & Watkins
Monday, December 18
Life Sciences Entrepreneurs' Forum: Holiday Break
n/a
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