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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 • • • • • 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