I create new molecules, I keep
chemists employed.
I work with chemists.
When we started our Biotech
company, I was one hundred
percent in the lab all the time.
But along the way I got pulled
into different meetings. And
with that came just a general
business skills of, of working
with different people to
generate new products. On a
daily basis, I manage
not only the scientists in
different programs, and make
sure that they're on time and on
budget, we also interact with
the companies themselves, and
create collaborative
environments so that we can
generate the products that
they need. I can't do business
development without
doing science, and working with
the scientists.
The scientists drive the
business, and the business pays
for the scientists. So being in
the middle allows me to take
good science, combine it with
good business, and create
great products. I think a lot of
chemistry is easy for the
average public person to
understand. We have all the
information at our fingerstips,
first of all. So if you can find
all of the information that you
can on a subject, and dig
into it, and then, apply
business principles to it
to fund it so it can actually
be made,
hopefully you'll succeed.
The hardest part of my job
that nobody knows about is
talking to a scientist who
believes the world in their
product, in their science, in
their chemical.
The hardest part is telling him
"Well, it's going to be hard
to commercialize." And unless
you're part of the equation,
and you're going to work hard,
and be passionate about pushing
the product, all the way to
commercialization,
it won't happen.
