Rick Berenson is the Managing Director of Venzyme. Rick has been leading organizations and developing practical, breakthrough strategy for more than twenty years. He has been CEO or COO at 9 startups, brought in by the investors on an interim basis to effect a new strategic direction.
Rick began his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a member of technical staff where he helped launch internal ventures. He then spent several years at software startups in the Boston area before joining McKinsey & Company as a management consultant. Subsequently, Rick has been CEO of ActivBiotics (early stage biotech), Banton Precision Wood Products (consumer products manufacturer), NewSphere (knowledge management software), Student.Com, Inc. (new media), and TVGrid (technology for the entertainment industry). He has also served as COO at ChannelHealth.Com (healthcare information and services), Morpace Pharma Group (medical market research), and AltiComm (telecom). Rick has been president of Alliance Management Consultants-US and, most recently, a senior partner at Monadnock Associates.
Rick Berenson received a JD-MBA from Harvard Business and Law Schools in 1984 and is a graduate of Harvard College.
I think that one of the biggest challenges for a scientific team is figuring out what makes a good CEO. What type of background, where do you find them. And typically the scientists will go to their next-door neighbor, some other friend. And that often turns out to be exactly the wrong thing to d...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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