BioEntrepreneurship - VCs and CVs: Managing the people/profit equation
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Early stage companies face a daunting set of requirements to get their organizations “up and running.” In the flurry of finding facilities, securing funding, and keeping the science on track, human resources activities are often undertaken in a spontaneous, opportunistic and ad hoc fashion. Yet deliberate, well planned human resource initiatives – from organizational planning/design to the basics of recruitment and hiring – are strategic to company growth and success and, properly executed, result in tactical savings of both time and money. The challenge is to implement what you need when you need it – and no more! This workshop will discuss the key issues and provide some tools to do just that.SPEAKER
- Joanne Harack, Snelgrove Associates
TOPICS ADDRESSED
- Founder entrepreneurs: from lab to leadership
- Organization development framework: from spin out to emerging company
- HR planning to match the business plan: short- and long-term needs
- Getting the basics right: payroll, taxes, and related auditable processes
- Intellectual property: from University to business
- Hiring versus outsourcing
- Recruitment/selection tools and techniques
- Compensation philosophy and structure
- Employment agreement basics
- Investors, Board and SAB
- Organizational culture
DATE | TIME | LOCATION
April 16, 2007 - April 16, 20076:00PM - 9:00PM
MaRS Collaboration Centre
101 College St, Toronto
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Joanne Harack, Snelgrove Associates
An executive with more than 15 years general management experience in health and life sciences, Joanne Harack provides custom consulting services to emerging biotechnology and life sciences companies, with a focus on talent acquisition and management, communications, organization design and human capital due diligence. In partnership with Snelgrove Associates, she recruits key talent for growth companies. The author of numerous articles on leadership, career and organization development, Joanne is Corporate Secretary for Axela Biosensors Inc. and most recently served as Vice President, Human Resources and Communications at Affinium Pharmaceuticals where she was responsible for Human Resources, corporate communications, government relations, facilities and IT. She has held senior HR roles with MDS and Connaught Laboratories (now sanofi Pasteur), chairs the Board of Canadians for Health Research, and co-chairs the Public Affairs Committee of BIOTECanada. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.
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Click here for more information about the BioEntrepreneurship Series.UPCOMING EVENTS
PAST EVENTS
- March 12, 2008
BioEntrepreneurship: What Investors Look For in Life Science Businesses - February 27, 2008
BioEntrepreneurship: Budgeting for life science companies - February 6, 2008
BioEntrepreneurship: Life Science IP - January 16, 2008
BioEntrepreneurship: Navigating the Global Regulatory Path for New Drugs - January 9, 2008
BioEntrepreneurship: Market Assessement for Therapeutics and Medical Devices - December 19, 2007
BioEntrepreneurship: Business Models in Therapeutics and Medical Devices - June 12, 2007
BioEntrepreneurship - Effective Communications: Selling your story to VCs and beyond - May 14, 2007
BioEntrepreneurship - Strategic Financing of Biotech - April 16, 2007
BioEntrepreneurship - VCs and CVs: Managing the people/profit equation - February 12, 2007
BioEntrepreneurship - Clinical Trials Strategy - January 15, 2007
BioEntrepreneurship - Navigating the Global Regulatory Path for New Drugs - December 4, 2006
BioEntrepreneurship - Intellectual Property Strategy - November 13, 2006
BioEntrepreneurship - Market Assessment: Great New Product or Just Really Cool Science? - October 16, 2006
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