Amrit spent his first eight years in the industry working with hundreds of R&D leaders at universities, biotechs, and large pharma companies to develop commercial products from discovery to market approval. ​

• Founded Advanced Peptides in 2007, a biopharma CRO
• Holds patents in chemistry for global commercialized products​
• One of INC Magazine’s top 20 innovators in healthcare

Seth spent his first six years in the industry working in corporate business development and as a startup entrepreneur in high throughput biology, followed by 12 years as a growth strategy consultant for Fortune 500 biopharma.

• In 1999 founded Molecularware, winning the MIT 50K competition, and successfully exited in 2003
• As Principal at TSG partners and Managing General Partner at Vectur LLC, Seth focused on corporate growth and buy-side M&A, as well as VC backed startup sell-side M&A

Hans has decades of experience in life science and technology companies while holding a variety of technical and management positions. Throughout his career, he has focused on commercializing advanced technology projects in partnership with corporations and VCs.

• Built and led the global diagnostics platform RAPIDPoint at Novartis and Bayer
• Winner of 2 R&D 100 awards in life sciences
• Multiple positions as CEO and COO

Brian is a biopharmaceutical manufacturing expert with more than 20 years of experience in the industry. He comes to SmartLabs from a mid-sized molecular engineering company, where he ran their healthcare business. Prior to that, he was the GM for GE Healthcare’s Biomanufacturing Solutions business.

• Developed turnkey manufacturing solutions for mAb production with a single use platform
• Worked with Congress to bring generic manufacturing back to the US
• Launched and ran cGMP sites, most recently a facility in Spain

Working as a trusted partner to CEOs, Ben has raised over $1 billion of equity, debt, and project capital for 12 companies and completed 11 Merger and Acquisition transactions during his career.

• Former head of finance for Cambridge Innovation Center
• Previous Management Consultant at McKinsey
• Brought investment banking and asset management divisions of Credit Suisse to Middle East