Susan Ward is the founder and CSO of ThoughtLynx, a start-up software company providing dynamic knowledge content applications to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Previously, Ward was EVP at Infinity Pharmaceuticals and Senior Vice President of Strategy and Productivity at Millenium Pharmaceutical, Inc. She started her professional career at Sterling Drug where she held a number of positions of increasing responsibility before joining Wyeth Research as head of their UK facility, and subsequently became VP Project and Portfolio Management, responsible for Wyeth's drug development portfolio. Susan Ward earned her Bachelors, Masters and PhD degrees in Pharmacology from the University of Manchester, UK. and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota.
There's a number of challenges in recruiting the right team. First of all, speed really does matter. You want to get to critical mass quickly, everyday that you're spending you are spending burn, you've got infrastructure that you're accruing. Often times you may if you're a founder coming from ac...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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