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EXPLOR Bioventures (www.explorbioventures.com) provides creative solutions to generate sustainable growth and profits for healthcare clients. A special focus is on commercializing innovative medical technology. Services include Technology Assessment, Market Assessment and Product Positioning, Business Development, Licensing Searches and Negotiation, Funding and Partnership Searches, and Interim Executive Management. The company maintains an extensive and diverse network of business colleagues, scientists and clinicians in a wide array of medical disciplines, ranging across surgery, critical care, and chronic care, to research and validate product concepts and opportunities.

Ed is an innovative executive with 28 years of healthcare experience in U.S. and international markets. Corporate experience includes a progression of successful product development, sales and marketing management, and business development assignments at Baxter Healthcare, Pfizer, and American Home Products/Wyeth. Selected achievements include establishing Baxter’s FloGard? line of volumetric infusion pumps, acquiring the FirstTemp? brand of tympanic thermometers to propel Sherwood Medical’s profitable growth, and integrating Sherwood Medical/Davis & Geck’s 45 international marketing personnel to re-focus strategic objectives and optimize profits.

Since founding EXPLOR Bioventures in 1998, he has gained management experience with several startups, most recently as Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business Development with Isto Technologies, Inc., an orthobiologic company that is developing cartilage regeneration solutions. Selected accomplishments include developing winning grant submissions that netted $2.75 million in awards from the NIST Advanced Technology and NIH SBIR programs, and the design and implementation of the business development campaign that resulted in a multi-million dollar collaboration with Zimmer, Inc. He is currently CEO-in-residence at the Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise (www.niduscenter.com), a plant and life science business incubator in St. Louis.

He holds an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA from the University of Chicago.