Pratap Khanwilkar

Help clients develop and commercialize their life science technologies and their adoption through organizational development: business and product strategy including market positioning, path to commercialization, fundraising, program and product portfolio analysis and commercialization pathway development including R&D, IP, manufacturing, pre-clinicals, regulatory submissions and approvals and supporting clinical studies trials-for start-ups and growth stage organizations, academia, and incubators. Recent successes have been to coach founder-CEOs to plan for and transition/grow their companies from early prototypes through pre-clinical testing and regulatory submissions, including organizational growth by hiring CXO, VP and Manager level talent, and also growing organizational decision-making and operational processes. Another key areas of focus is to develop a product portfolio and successfully obtain both non-dilutive and dilutive investments (Seed, Series A, Series B) by developing appropriate branding, framing, and messaging/communication strategies as well as aiming at the appropriate funding sources. A key practice area is to de-risk projects and organizations at the inception stage by developing and refining the problem (the unmet clinical need/market) and the appropriate solution (technology/product) required to 'solve' the problem, and then construct an appropriate path to market through product development, pre-clinical testing, clinical trials, regulatory approvals and reimbursement to establish and successfully implement the selected business model with the appropriate staged financing, risk-reduction and milestone-focused plan for the organization and its stakeholders. A recently-established practice area is to promote bidirectional medtech and related development between India and the United States.