Roads to Entrepreneurship
presented by NU Health Sciences Entrepreneurs

Meet and engage in small group discussions with inspiring health sciences entrepreneurs, who will tell their successes and failures as they launched their companies and followed their dreams.

Sign up on our website today for two 45 minute breakouts from the list below. Register today at www.northeastern.edu/alumni/healthsciences

 

Growing Your Home Infusion Company?
The Critical Care Systems Story

Richard Griffin, MS’76
Cofounder, Critical Care Systems
Robert Smaglia, MS’77
Cofounder, Critical Care Systems

Building Pharmas in Different Eras:
Copley Pharmaceuticals to Tedor Pharma

Theodore Iorio, MS’66
Founder and CEO, Tedor Pharma Inc;
Cofounder, Copley Pharmaceuticals

The Perils and Rewards of Working in a Venture-backed Company

Anthony Delizza, MS’80
CEO, First Light, LLC

Bootstrapping: Do-it-yourself Funding

Dr. Robert Crisafi, P’53
CEO, SafeCor Health

Medical Devices: Concepts to Commercialization

Mark D. McWilliams, ME’79
President and CEO, Medipacs, Inc.;
serial biomedical entrepreneur

Large Company to Startup: Which is Safer?

Carl Lebel, PhD’89
Chief Scientific Officer, Otonomy Inc.

The Physical Therapist Entrepreneur: Challenges and Successes in Today’s Health-care Environment

Jake W. Kennedy, BHS’79, MS, PT, SCS
Owner and Founder, Kennedy Brothers Physical Therapy

Entrepreneurial to Corporate Health Care...The Nursing Impact

William C. Hawk, P’74
Senior Vice President, American Anesthesiology;
former CEO and Founder, TeamCare, Inc;
former CEO and Founder, Severn Healthcare Inc.

Pharmaceuticals in Europe: Business and Career Opportunities

Frank Condella, P’77, MBA’84
Managing Director, Condella & Co, LLC;
former CEO and Director, SkyePharma

Have a Great IDEA? Launch Your Business NOW

Ashkan Afkhami, CBA’09
Founder/Chairman/CEO, Interdisciplinary
Entrepreneurship Accelerator (IDEA)
Dan Gregory
Senior Academic Specialist, School of
Technological Entrepreneurship

Networking: Creating Opportunities for Your Success

Tino O. Vilches, P’91
Vice President of Clinical Services, Wise Hospice Options; Advisory Member, Medipacs, Inc.;
Owner, Husky Properties, LLC