Advisory Board
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Chris GreendaleFounder & CEO, Cloud Technology Partners
After a successful high tech sales and marketing career culminating in VP Marketing, Oracle USA in 1990, Chris became one of the three founders of Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP) in 1991. As a systems integrator, CTP designed and developed custom client server software applications for enterprises. CTP also pioneered a fixed-time, fixed-fee development methodology. Chris ran Sales and Marketing as CTP grew explosively from start-up to over $850m in revenue in 1997. The company had one of the most successful IPOs of the 90s and had a market cap of over $5b. In late 1997, Chris left CTP and founded Breakaway Solutions, a similar integrator focused on the next technology wave, internet driven enterprise solutions. Breakaway also had a successful IPO and had a market cap of over $7b. Chris also made numerous personal investments in companies such as Siebel Systems and sat on a number of high-profile boards including Clarify and Glasshouse. In 2002, Chris joined venture capital firm Kodiak Venture Partners. In 2007, he made many investments including Astadia, a cloud integrator. Chris recently rejoined the corporate side, founding Cloud Technology Partners. Chris grew up in New Zealand, came to the US on an NCAA tennis scholarship, andis degreed in Math and Business. |
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Nancy Levy, Ph.DSenior Consultant, Strategy & Business Development
Nancy Levy, Ph.D. has extensive start-up and later-stage experience in corporate strategy and business development in the US, Canada and Europe. Nancy has built a solid reputation through her broad biopharmaceutical experience base and deep industry knowledge, combined with a strong technical background. Dr. Levy has worked with a wide range of clients, from pre-IPO to mid-market companies, and from venture capitalists to investment bankers. At Millennium Pharmaceuticals she established a successful collaboration with alliance partner, Genentech, to move a Phase II product with potential first drug in indication toward the market. Nancy served for four years as president and CEO of Immunetics, a medical devices company located in Cambridge, MA where she raised three rounds of financing and managed the processes for the first FDA products. At Genzyme, where she held multiple senior marketing roles for 4 years, she built a clinical devices business, including the purchase, integration, and management of a German infectious disease company. Currently, Nancy is on the board of Acceleration Pharmaceuticals, Propel and the board of advisers for SOM Biotech in Barcelona, Spain. She was selected as a strategic adviser for biotech companies in the bioregion of Catalonia by Biocat. She was a trustee and is currently a member of Newton-Wellesley Hospital Board of overseers. Other honors include: featured entrepreneur in the Wall Street Journal, Closing the Gender Gap, and first place in Business Plan contest, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She has been invited to speak at numerous international conferences including a recent conference in Barcelona entitled IP, Licensing and Value Creation. She is an adjunct professor at the Boston University School of Management. Nancy has been on the faculty at Harvard Medical School, where she also did her fellowship. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. |
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George RosenbergAgency Coach and Adviser
George Rosenberg is an experienced counselor, strategist, and business adviser. He provides consulting and coaching services to public relations and integrated communications firms across the country. With his coaching over the last four years, LaVoie Group has established itself as a leading independent healthcare agency. George spent more than 30 years in the public relations business, including 17 years with Burson-Marsteller/New York, where he was responsible for a unit of 100 people and clients billing more than $13 million. He was then appointed president and CEO of Cohn & Wolfe, and helped to build a small, two-office, regional agency into an international firm ranked among the top 15 largest in the country. He has been also been president of a small New York firm and a partner in a mid-size agency, prior to opening his own PR firm in 2000. George also helped establish the corporate communications recruiting practice at Ward Howell International, an international search firm. George is an accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America and is active in the Counselors Academy. He is a graduate of The American University, Washington, D.C., with a B.A. in public relations. George is a frequent speaker on leadership and management issues at public relations agency conferences and seminars. |
