PITTSBURGH, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse (PLSG), the private/public partnership putting the region’s life sciences industry on a fast track for growth, today announced it has added Alan West to its management team. Mr. West will support existing Pittsburgh area companies while also evaluating later-stage life sciences technologies and opportunities for the region. Previous to his association with the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse, Mr. West was CEO, of the Michigan Tech Enterprise Corporation, a start-up high-tech business incubator. Prior to that, Mr. West was President & CEO of Assurance Medical, Inc., a Massachusetts medical device start-up company.
At the PLSG, Mr. West will serve as an Executive-in-Residence (EIR), focusing on early-stage company formation as well as the commercialization of later-stage technologies and opportunities. He will leverage his expertise in operations, new product development, venture fund-raising, sales and marketing, IP and patent development, business planning, corporate strategy development and implementation, and in navigating the FDA approval process to assist companies with comprehensive strategic business planning.
“Alan West’s vast experience as President and CEO of life sciences start-ups coupled with his experience working for Fortune 500 companies make him a perfect addition to the EIR team,” said Doros Platika, M.D., the President and Chief Executive Officer of the PLSG. “The diversity of his comprehensive industry background in product development in areas such as, medical devices, interventional radiology, cardiology, and cancer detection make him an ideal mentor for the life sciences start-ups he will assist.” Dr. Platika continued, “In addition, Alan’s academic experience and enthusiasm for company formation will be an asset to the PLSG and our companies as we work to write a new chapter in Pittsburgh’s story and grow the life sciences industry in the region.”
Mr. West has worked for Fortune 500 companies Boston Scientific, Inc. and Johnson & Johnson. In addition to his past executive management experience, Mr. West has enjoyed being a strategic business consultant, a lecturer at Tufts University, and a member of the board of directors for several life sciences and biomedical companies.
About the PLSG
The Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse is a public/private partnership, founded by the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, UPMC Health System, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and its regional foundation community. Together with private industry and advanced research and healthcare capabilities of our institutional partners, PLSG invests in and supports the growth of regional life sciences companies in the areas of: bioinformatics; bionanotechnology; diagnostics; medical devices; medical robotics; therapeutics; and tools and services.
Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse
CONTACT: Lynn Banaszak Brusco of Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse,+1-412-770-1353
Web site: http://www.pisg.com/
