Hello everybody...don't be scared..I don't want to be too serious tonight..the title of my blog is just the title of the seminar I attended tonight in Palo Alto, at the Parc (Palo Alto Reasearch Center).
Seminar has been organized by AWIS, Association Women In Science, in Palo Alto. AWIS is a non-profit association which works to promote women's activities in all scientific fields, from mentoring to scholarships to job listings.
Speakers invited, with their broad expertise in IT and Pharma/Biotech sectors, have talked about paths followed in their careers, challenges facing business development and advice for developing careers. It has been a really interesting meeting, mostly because speakers, two successfull women working here in the Bay Area, come from Accademia, but decided to move from the bench to the business, so they represent a great example for us joining the Fulbright-BEST program!!!
This is a brief summary of their fantastic career:
Kathleen Gilligan - Kathleen is currently President of Ramco Systems and holds an MBA from Stanford University's AEA Executive MBA program. Kathleen's 25-year career encompasses a rich mix of organizational expertise in enterprise and channel sales, marketing, communications, training, and executive management.
Monica Rosoff - Monica is currently Senior Manager, Commercialization and Product Transfer at Genentech. Her responsibilities include coordinating the execution of technology transfers of drug manufacturing to new facilities (e.g. manufacture of Avastin to Genentech's Oceanside facility), project management aspects of new product launches (such as launch of Lucentis in 2006) and coordinating communication with Genentech partners, including large pharmaceutical companies.
This is a brief summary of their fantastic career:
Kathleen Gilligan - Kathleen is currently President of Ramco Systems and holds an MBA from Stanford University's AEA Executive MBA program. Kathleen's 25-year career encompasses a rich mix of organizational expertise in enterprise and channel sales, marketing, communications, training, and executive management.
Monica Rosoff - Monica is currently Senior Manager, Commercialization and Product Transfer at Genentech. Her responsibilities include coordinating the execution of technology transfers of drug manufacturing to new facilities (e.g. manufacture of Avastin to Genentech's Oceanside facility), project management aspects of new product launches (such as launch of Lucentis in 2006) and coordinating communication with Genentech partners, including large pharmaceutical companies.
It has been a great experience to hear from such successfull women, also because they gave us a lot of suggestions about career, private life and, why not..how to approach with the opposite sex in business activity!
What they emphasized most is the necessity to
- do what you really enjoy
- be opportunistic and create opportunities for yourself
- communicate
- respect yourself
- use common sense
- make networking...it means to take care about people,to look for relationships, to help them!
And last but not least, SMILE!!!!!
I hope you will enjoy these wise suggestions as I did tonight...
Take care
Yours,
Elizabeth
P.S.: thanks to Andrea Rossi who suggested us this event!
4 comments:
Glad you enjoyed the meeting. Monica and other women scientists will be honored at an awards banquet this Wednesday (register by tomorrow! at www.pa-awis.org).
Also, please join us for our May 16 meeting about bioethics in genomics and our June 13 networking meeting. Details will be available at the website, or email us to get meeting reminders!
awis.pa@gmail.com
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Stacy H.
When i start to work in pharmacy I really learn about marketing and publicity and yeah as well many people are attracted for what they see, they like to see cheap prices and they are careless about the quality.
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