Melissa Rones of Ropes & Gray masterfully moderated the panel on Investment Themes that Will Shape Life Sciences Dealmaking Strategies in 2023 and Beyond on Sunday afternoon. These in-person From the Boardroom events have become one of the highlights of my JPM week events. The diverse, esteemed, and brilliant panel…

A local biotech company has an opening for an Executive Director of IT Quality and Compliance and after a quick inquiry with a friend who works at the company, I learned it reports up into the CFO. This is a good thing. Not the best thing. …

Life sciences companies, especially biotech and small pharma, have lagged behind other industries in their adoption of technology to optimize business performance and get to market more quickly. …

I’ve received a few inquiries lately from SaaS vendors interested in selling into life sciences. They see the big dollars in the sector and want a piece of it. I don’t blame them. The calls I received were for validation services. They wanted me to come in and ‘validate’ their…

Most life sciences companies struggle to find the right balance when validating their computer and enterprise systems. They struggle to see the value of computer validation beyond meeting compliance requirements. But what if computer validation (CSV or CSA) actually made good business sense? Last week I presented a webinar in…

Welcome Back My Happiness Seeking Passengers: When I sit down to write the weekly PYL In-Flight, sometimes I know what I am going to write about and sometimes I look to my photos for inspiration. Today, the photos that caught my eye all made me smile and they were all…

My son recently graduated from college with a philosophy degree and is working on what’s next. When I saw this book, What Do You Want Out of Life by Valererie Tiberius, I thought I ‘d read it and see if there were any nuggets of wisdom I could pass along…

As I was looking for things to do in Denver, CO before our recent trip, most of the lists included places outside of Denver. So, here’s a list of 10 things to do in Denver, CO that doesn’t require going outside the metro city limits.

Welcome Back My World-Traveling Passengers: It’s fascinating how we are inspired to see the world, especially as our children have ventured out into other parts of the US. With our son Adam now living in Denver with his girlfriend Jillian, we went to Colorado to not only see them, but…