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2009-03-24 Poland: Todd H. Smith at BioForum 2009 -the American recipe for success in biotechnology

I find the opportunity to participate in BioForum to be interesting on a number of fronts. Personally, it combines my passion for entrepreneurship, finance, and international business into one event, which is something I have not experienced often in my career. Secondly, I see it as a learning opportunity to find out about technology development in another part of the world. And finally, I believe it opens doors to commercialize exciting overseas technologies in the US market. I believe there is an ignorance in the U.S. about biotech development in Europe as a whole, which I think creates an opportunity for parties who showcase such technology in the U.S., said Todd H. Smith, a guest of the company Bio-Tech Consulting Ltd company, at BioForum2009.

Todd H. Smith has nearly 20 years of professional business experience and has worked as a manager and as an entrepreneurial consultant for eleven years with MindForce and Blue Horizon Venture Consulting, and in affiliation with firms such as Cayenne Consulting and Growthink. His business plans have a very high success ratio and they have helped clients raise well over $100 million dollars. He has served clients from pure startups to Fortune 500 companies.

During Bioforum Todd Smith will participate in seminar about commercialization process of (bio)technology organized by Bio-Tech Consulting Ltd., a main organizer of BioForum. Mr. Smith with be speaking about the technology commercialization process in the United States, including methods that are working, and impediments to successful commercialization such as gap/business development funding. In addition, he will be discussing opportunities for Central European life science technologies in the U.S. market.

The session will be held during the second day of Central European Forum of Biotechnology and Innovative Bioeconomy-BioForum 2009 (www.bioforum.pl). The main aim of the Forum is to present biotech applicable R&D projects from Central European countries as well as to establish cooperation and potential business contacts between scientific and innovative business entities, said Monika Sowinska, a principal project manager of BioForum 2009.

Izabela Klockowska