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Jon is a dynamic and passionate business development and strategy leader with a deep technical background and over 20 years of experience in the development and commercialization of new technologies spanning multiple industries including clinical diagnostics, food safety, and agriculture. Most recently he was CEO and Founder of a Biosciences company which was a Denver Business Journal Fast 50 small business category winner in 2020. He also helped develop and commercialize the core biomarker discovery technology behind the SomaScan platform at SomaLogic, which listed on the NASDAQ in 2021 and is the largest protein biomarker discovery platform in the world.
Jon received his PhD in Chemistry from CU Boulder and is an author of multiple peer reviewed publications and an inventor on several patents. He has over a decade of management experience in highly technical operating environments working in regulated industries with regulatory oversight from FDA, FSIS, and USDA. He excels at strategic relationship building, creating and selling new concepts, leading teams, and building innovative growth strategies for a wide range of businesses. He currently advises several companies on everything from fundraising, to product development, sales and marketing, people management, to technical problem solving.
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