Kamran Tahamtanzadeh

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San Mateo CA 94401

925-***-**** hz7561@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Twenty years of professional experience across multiple disciplines

• Highly entrepreneurial with diverse sales and business development experience

• 500+ customer contacts and key relationships within the Life Sciences Industry

• Multi-lingual with great written and verbal communication skills

• Produce results in fast paced environments by adapting and implementing new strategies

• Team oriented and a leader who motivates members to exceed expectations

• Keep abreast of cutting-edge Healthcare technologies and new opportunities

Business Development Expertise

• Management of strategic alliances with pharma and major diagnostic companies

• Negotiation of complex agreements & structuring deals

• Creating departmental alignment

• Financial modeling & Market, Products, Services and Partnership segmentation

• Adapting to market evolution and competitive situations

• M&A, Diligence and Team Integration

• Execution of Companion Diagnostics deal with company X

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Founder, Chairman & CEO, PrognosDx Health, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, February 2008 to present

• Focused on the launch of CLIA-based Epigenetic testing services for clinical prognosis of patients with prostate cancer

• Developed contractual agreements with Biotech, Pharmaceutical, academic and molecular diagnostic companies

• Built strategic collaborative industry and academic partnerships, structured de-risked deals to create significant value for the long-term growth of the company

• Created measurable value for the company through strategic relationship management with KOLs, C-Level executives and BD teams

• Used my established commercial track record within the molecular diagnostic and biotech fields to derive significant value for PrognosDx through successful completion of cancer biomarker projects across multiple indications

• Maintained an open communication style with my team to drive corporate goals and to enable them in swiftly responding to rapid changes in the regulatory environment, partnering requirements and operational challenges

• Raised seed and angel funds for PrognosDx and currently focused on presenting company value proposition to the Venture Capital community for additional rounds of financing

• Panelist at Molecular Diagnostic conferences

• Presented PrognosDx’s Epigenetic technology across the US and internationally

Director of Business Development, Translational Diagnostic Business Unit, VENTANA Medical Systems, Inc., Tucson, AZ, December 2005 to August 2007

• Doubled revenue and substantially improved financial outlook in 2006 for the CAP/CLIA certified laboratory of Ventana Translational Diagnostics Business Unit focused on Companion Diagnostic Opportunities within large pharma

• Provided sales guidance, managed and engaged members of clinical and molecular discovery sales teams in high level business activities to pursue both commercial product sales and managing strategic alliances

• Negotiated Diagnostic Services Agreements and signed Master Laboratory and Clinical Services Agreements with selected pharmaceutical and big biotech companies resulting in long-term and strategic contracts

• Developed and executed strategies to manage multi-national client relationships

• Prepared and presented strategic information to Ventana executive management

• Provided routine revenue generating guidance to North American Commercial Organization, European Commercial Organization

Employment History Prior to Joining Ventana Medical Systems (1992-2005)

Research & Development Chemist, Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., Pleasanton, CA

Corporate Sales Representative, Fisher Scientific, Pittsburgh, PA

Western Regional Sales Manager, Intergen Company, Purchase, N.Y

Key Account Manager, IGEN International, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD

Sales Manager, NW Region, USA, Pyrosequencing, Inc., Westborough, MA

US & International Business Development Manager, MetriGenix, Inc., Baltimore, MD

Sr. Sales Consultant &ProteomeLab Specialist, Beckman Coulter, Inc., Fullerton, CA

EDUCATION

• Bachelor of Administration in Molecular & Cellular Biology with Emphasis in Molecular Genetics, University of California at Berkeley, 1992

• Bachelor of Administration in Near Eastern Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1992

LANGUAGES

• English, Spanish, Turkish, fluency in Persian and exposure to Latin & Arabic

SECURITY CLEARANCE

UNITED STATES CITIZEN

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