WHY CHOOSE KEVIN O'DONOVAN AS A BUSINESS CONSULTANT FOR LIFE SCIENCE AND DIAGNOSTIC COMPANIES?

• Au fait with customers in universities, medical schools, research institutes, pharmaceutical companies and diagnostic laboratories.
For more than 30 years, I have consulted, managed and directed my way across a very wide spectrum of markets covering Life Science Research, Diagnostics and even Biological Therapeutics. As such, I am extremely familiar with the customers and products across these sectors.

• Capable of acting alone without guidance.
I am a highly experienced scientific business consultant and have what is needed to "cut to the chase" and to see projects through on time. I have seen successes and failures and have made mistakes and learnt from them. I can achieve what is required of me without time intensive guidance.

• Huge experience in project based activities.
I have a track record in sales, sales management, marketing, and general management. Having created and run my own very successful molecular biology business and subsequently been heavily involved with a further 11 Companies, I have the skills and experience to undertake a very wide range of projects.

• Access to network of academics and specialists
When information is needed or tasks need to be performed that are outside my particular areas of expertise, I have contacts in our industry that are specifically aimed at helping small life science businesses and who operate in a cost effective manner

• Ability to deal with/relate to all sorts of disciplines and characters
A company based project often requires input and assistance from members of staff in order to make it happen. A sales and man management background enables me to understand this and know how to work with all sorts of people, and encourage them to pull together in order to achieve a stated goal.

• Mentoring
Inexperienced CEOs or Sales and Marketing Directors can benefit from the input and guidance from someone who has performed these roles before. I offer a mentoring scheme to support and train such Executives to achieve their full potential.

• References
In addition to my CV, I can provide a number of references that testify to my skills, experience and ability to get the job done.

THESE ARE THE PROJECTS THAT I CAN UNDERTAKE FOR YOUR BUSINESS, THEY RANGE FROM THE PRACTICAL TO THE STRATEGIC

1. SALES AND MARKETING

•Creating a local or international dealer network
•Introduce new products in life science markets
•Recruit sales and marketing personnel, individuals or a whole team
•find new products for distribution companies
•Act as an interim sales and marketing director.
•Organise major exhibition attendance
•Organise promotional materials including websites
•Set up relationships with DTI export schemes for export support
•Change company culture, creating a sales culture where there is none.
•Help companies create a strategic marketing plan.
•Sales training for non-sales personnel.

2. GENERAL

•Help companies formulate a strategic business plan
• Locate new premises and oversee a move
•recruit a new CEO or other Board Members
•Undertake an interim CEO role
•Undertake company and technology due diligence
•Sell a company on behalf of its shareholders
•Buy a company, from identification through to purchase
•Mentor a board through selling a business in order to maximise the value.
•Mentor an inexperienced CEO
•Upsize or downsize, removing the emotional factors
•Business development, acquisition / disposal of technologies or patents, partnering or OEM deals.
•Public speaking and presentations on behalf of someone who may be uncomfortable with speaking
•Venture capital fund raising
•Major contract negotiating
•Small company doctor
•Voluntary liquidation negotiations
•IPO assistance
•Simultaneous engineering, speed up product development
•Team building
•Promotion of the Life Sciences and Diagnostics industry.

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