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SAI KUMAR, PH.D.
DILIGENT CXO PROFILE
SNAPSHOT
• Unique Combination of Business Acumen and Technical Prowess
• Forte: Turning Science and Technology into Dollars
• 3 Startups and 2 Fortune-500 Companies
CORE LEADERSHIP STRENGTHS
• Business Strategy and Stewardship
• Due Diligence for Acquisitions and Investments
• Innovation Management
• Entrepreneurism
BUSINESS STRATEGY AND STEWARDSHIP
• Core Competence Definition & Analysis
• Business soul searching & value alignment
• Focus
• Alignment of Company Resources, Processes & Values with Customers
• Outsourcing
• When and when not to do
• Optimization of Business Processes to Create/Sustain Value
DUE DILIGENCE
• Technology Due Diligence
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Medical Devices—micro and nanofluidics & biosensors
Bio/Nano Materials—polymers, plastics and ceramics
Drug Delivery: Devices & Controlled Release Formulations
Optics—optoelectronics, electrooptics and nonlinear optics
Patent Portfolio Leveraging
• Business Due Diligence
• Roadmapping
• 360o Alignment
• Globalization
INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
• R&D Metrics & RoI Optimization
• Disruptive Innovation Strategies
• Harnessing & Mobilization of Organizational Knowledge
• Collaborative Problem Solving
ENTREPRENEURISM: MENTORING/COACHING
• Market/Customer Focus
• Can you monetize your invention?
• Customer Discovery
• Who are they? Are you asking the right questions?
• Competition
• Do you understand who your competitors are? What’s your sustainable competitive advantage?
• Interim Leadership
CORE TECHNICAL STRENGTHS
• Biomedical Devices
• Diagnostics & Therapeutics
• Hydrogel Drug Delivery Systems
• Fine tuning control release for the most optimal PK-PD
• NanoBio Materials
• Optoelectonics & Thin Films
• Polymer Structure-Processing-Property Relationships
• Creating and manipulating the best morphology
BIOMEDICAL DEVICES: DIAGNOSTICS
• Blood test for brain injury and heart diseases
• Cerebral and ophthalmic microdialysis
• Electrochemical and optofluidic sensors
• Contact lens biosensors
• Punctal (eye) delivery devices
• Design, fabrication & testing of gel phantoms for radiotherapy optimization
BIOMEDICAL DEVICES: THERAPEUTICS
• Nanoengineered gels for ophthalmic and cerebral drug delivery
• Drug-eluting stents
• Micropump for ambulatory drug delivery
HYDROGEL DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS
• Liquid crystalline systems
• Self-organizing hydrogels
• Thermosensitive polymeric systems
• Poloxamers and nanopeptides
• Nanostructured core-shell systems
NANO-BIO MATERIALS
• Sol-gel systems
• Siloxanes and nanocubes
• Nanopeptides
• Biopolymeric systems (Hyaluronic acid; poloxamers)
• Rigid-rod polymeric systems
• Block copolyimides and block copolyamide-imides
• Exfoliated clay-polymer nanocomposites
• Liquid crystal-polymer composites
OPTOELECTONICS
• Mach-Zender and Fabry-Perot devices
• Electrooptic shutters and limiters
• Frequency doubling systems
• Nonlinear optical devices
• Scattering: Raleigh, Raman and Brillouin (thin-film specialization)
POLYMER STRUCTURE-PROCESSING-PROPERTY
RELATIONSHIPS
• Liquid crystalline polymers
• Magnetic and optical field orientation
• Light & X-ray scattering
• Block Copolymers
• Thermoplastic elastomers
• Rigid-flexible polymers
• Polymer blends and composites
• Evolution and manipulation of morphology in extrusion and injection molding
EXEMPLARY PRODUCTS
Micropump
Handy-LC
BioSmart
Microdialysis
QuickConnects
Wire Harness Connectors
Thermosensitive gel
for Glaucoma
Metal Plated
Plastic Escutcheons
Gel Phantom
Plastic LED holders