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William Szczepaniak

Life Science Consulting

Calgary, Alberta

Work Experience

  • Director of Business Development

    2023

  • Principal

    2022 - 2023

2020 - 2022

  • Director, UCeed Health and Life Science Funds

    2022 - 2022

  • Fund Manager, UCeed Health

    2020 - 2022

  • Director, Economic Development Life Sciences Innovation Hub

    2020 - 2022

2014 - 2020

  • Management Consultant

    2014 - 2020

    Provide product management, business development, and technology transfer consulting services to a broad range of medical device companies, healthcare service providers, and individual academic faculty inventors.

2012 - 2014

  • Product Manager, Intraoperative Monitoring

    2012 - 2014

    Directed all global upstream- and downstream- product management and business development activities for the leading producer of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) medical devices.

  • Laboratory Manager / Research Associate

    2005 - 2012

    Designed, built, and managed all operational aspects of a startup research laboratory to study pulmonary vascular physiology and clinically translatable animals models of human lung disease.

2004 - 2005

  • Senior Associate Consultant

    2004 - 2005

    Served as a trusted intellectual property (IP) strategy consultant to Fortune 100, 500, mid-size and growth-stage companies.

  • Senior Licensing Manager

    2002 - 2004

    Recruited as a senior member of a core startup team to form the first fully staffed and funded technology transfer office at major research university with an annual research budget of nearly $300M

  • Adjunct Professor

    2002 - 2004

    Codeveloped and co-taught an upper-level law school elective course entitled, "Biotechnology Law and Policy" for two consecutive years.

  • Licensing Officer, Technology Transfer Office

    2000 - 2002

    First person hired in the CMU Technology Transfer Office to specialize in the commercialization of biotechnology, medical device, and life science technologies.

1999 - 2000

  • Director of Technology Development

    1999 - 2000

    Played key technical and business roles as one of the earliest members of a biotechnology startup company.