Past Regional Co-Chairs
In order to facilitate and incorporate local participation, local co-chairs are recruited each year. In previous years, Local Co-Chairs were:
Chicago, IL 2006
- Panayiotis P. Constantinides, PhD, Principal, Biopharmaceutical & Drug Delivery Consulting
- Elsie Quaite-Randall, PhD, MBA Executive Director of the Office of Research Contracts and IP, McMaster University, formerly of Office of Technology Transfer, Argonne National Laboratory
Atlanta, GA, 2009
- Frank R. Hunt, MS MBA, President, SE bioStrategies, Inc., CEO, PNP Therapeutics, Inc.
- Dennis P. Schafer, CEO, Life Science Management
Boston, MA, 2012
- Ashley J. Stevens, DPhil (Oxon), CLP, President, Focus IP Group, LLC and Lecturer, Strategy and Innovation Department, School of Management, Boston University
- Rekha Paleyanda, PhD, Sr. Business Strategy and Licensing Manager, Partners Healthcare
Philadelphia, PA, 2015
- Dennis Gross, MS, PhD, CEO, Pennsylvania Drug Discovery Institute at The Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center
- James Jordan, MBA, CHT, Chief Investment Officer, Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse, Distinguished Service Professor in Healthcare & Biotechnology Management, Carnegie Mellon University
- Alex B. Reitz, PhD, CEO, Fox Chase Chemical Diversity Center, Inc., The Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center
Boston, MA 2018
- Edward Ross, Jr., MBA, President & CEO, ReadyDock, Inc., Member, MassMedical Angels and Launchpad Venture Group
- Amy Siegel, MA, Co-founder and President, S2N Health
Boston, MA, 2007
- Robert Creeden, Partners HealthCare Systems, Inc., Managing Director, Center for Innovative Ventures
Chicago, IL, 2010
- Patrick G. Morand, Managing Director, SWMF Life Science Fund
- Charles B. Hoslet, Managing Director, UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations
- Allen J. Dines, Assistant Director, Office of Corporate Relations, University of Wisconsin
Chicago, IL, 2013
- Patrick G. Morand, Managing Partner, Open Prairie Ventures
- Allen J. Dines, Assistant Director, Office of Corporate Relations & Venture Designer Hybrid Zone X, University of Wisconsin-Madison
San Francisco, CA 2016
- Benjamin Chen, PhD, Managing Director, Ignatius Transaction Partners
- Moira Gunn, PhD, Host, NPR – BioTech Nation, Director, Business of Biotechnology Program, Professor, School of Management University of San Francisco
Philadelphia, PA 2019
- Wendy DiCicco, Board Member, Carmell Therapeutics
- Kathryn Doyle, PhD, JD, Partner, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr, LLP
- Hank Safferstein, PhD, JD, MBA, Senior Vice President, Cognition Therapeutics
San Diego, CA, 2008
- Kurt A. May, MBA, Assistant Dean, Executive Development Center, Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego
- Duane J. Roth, Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of CONNECT.
Washington, DC, 2011
- Elana Fine, Director of Venture Investments, Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
- Toby Gordon, Sc.D., Associate Professor, The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
- Martha J. Connolly, PhD, Director, Maryland Industrial Partnerships, University of Maryland
San Diego, CA, 2014
- Kurt A. May, MBA, Co-founder and Chairman, Psynomics Incorporated
- Larry Stambaugh, Founding Principal, Aperçu Partners
- Justin Chakma, Associate Director, Auspex Pharmaceuticals and Thomas, McNerney & Partners, LLC
San Diego, CA 2017
- Steve Flaim, PhD, FACC, FAHA, Chairman Emeritus, Tech Coast Angels, Director Angel Capital Association
- Larry Stambaugh, Founding Principal, Aperçu Partners, Numerous Boards of Directors
San Diego, CA 2022
- Dennis Abremski, Executive Director, Institute for the Global Entrepreneur, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
- Jessica Gibson, MBA,CEO and Co-founder, Ariel Precision Medicine
- John York, PharmD, MBA, Principal & CEO, AKITA BIOMEDICAL, Lecturer, RADY, IGE/JACOBS (UCSD), ORFALEA COLLEGE OF BUSINESS, CAL POLY, SLO, Adj. Professor, ERNEST MARIO (RUTGERS)
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Sunday June 4 – Monday June 5, 2023
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
(415 Summer St. Boston, MA 02210)
In the Seaport District of Boston, MA
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BIO International Registration