A Complimentary Webinar from Chrysalis Incubator

Date & Time: Thursday, November 5, 12:00–1:00 PM CST
Format: Webinar

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A great medtech idea and a solid strategy are only the beginning.

Once you have validated the need and developed the strategy, you have to actually build the company and execute the plan. That means finding engineers, product-development experts, lawyers, regulatory and reimbursement advisors, clinical and quality professionals, business leaders, investors, and many others.

Now, good luck finding all of them.

In the third installment of the Chrysalis webinar series, we will move beyond Phase Zero and focus more closely on Phase One: Structuring for Success. We will discuss what happens when an inventor moves from evaluating an opportunity to assembling the people, resources, company structure, and capital needed to move a medical technology forward.

And we will address something that is often overlooked: the importance of having the right people and the right network around you.

Successful medtech companies are not built by one person. They require people with very different expertise working together at the right time. Knowing who you need, when you need them, where to find them, and how their work fits together can make the difference between moving forward efficiently and spending years and significant capital correcting avoidable mistakes.

That is one of the reasons Chrysalis exists. We bring experienced medtech operators and specialists together around the same table and connect innovators with the broader network they will need to build their companies.

What We'll Discuss

• Moving from Phase Zero into Phase One: Turning strategy into action.
• Building the Company: Establishing the right legal and business foundation.
• Building the Product: Moving from concept through development and toward commercialization.
• Building the Team: Identifying the expertise needed to move forward.
• Raising Capital: Preparing the company and story for investors.
• Building the Network: Finding the people and resources that can help.
• Keeping Everyone Aligned: Making sure the different workstreams move together.

Meet the Presenters

Darryl Barnes, MD – Founder and Partner, Chrysalis Incubator
Darryl is a physician, inventor, entrepreneur, and Co-Founder and CTO of Sonex Health. He brings firsthand experience identifying unmet clinical needs, developing medical technologies, building multidisciplinary teams, and creating a successful medtech company.

Ted Dale – Consultant, Chrysalis Incubator
Ted is an engineer, inventor, and product-development leader with nearly four decades of experience spanning medical devices, biomedical engineering, advanced manufacturing, and aerospace. His work includes concept development, design, prototyping, testing, manufacturing, quality systems, and commercialization. He is a named inventor on 54 issued patents.

Brendon Pittman, MBA – Founder and Partner, Chrysalis Incubator
Brendon is a medtech marketing and business executive with more than 20 years of industry experience. He has helped develop and launch numerous medical technologies and brings deep expertise in market assessment, financial strategy, commercialization, go-to-market planning, and building the networks necessary for adoption.

Benjamin Tramm, Esq. – Founder and Partner, Chrysalis Incubator
Ben is a Partner at Merchant & Gould and an intellectual property attorney with more than two decades of medical technology experience. A former Medtronic engineer, Ben combines engineering and legal experience to help innovators protect their technologies and develop IP strategies that support the larger business.

Mark Gardner, MBA, Esq. – Founder and Managing Partner, Chrysalis Incubator
Mark is an FDA regulatory attorney, entrepreneur, and business strategist with more than 25 years of healthcare industry experience. He advises medical technology companies on FDA and CMS strategy and brings additional experience from commercial roles involving the development and launch of medical products.

Jeffrey J. Steinle, Esq. – Shareholder, Fredrikson
Jeff is a corporate attorney who advises life-science companies on financing, M&A, licensing, joint ventures, and commercial transactions. He has extensive medtech experience, including serving as a corporate development leader and lawyer at Medtronic, and regularly works with emerging life-science companies on financing, growth, and strategic transactions.

Who Should Attend

This webinar is designed for:

• Physicians, engineers, and inventors developing medical technologies
• Entrepreneurs and founders building medtech companies
• Early-stage and emerging medtech executives
• Investors and advisors
• Regulatory, clinical, quality, engineering, and commercial professionals
• Anyone trying to understand what it actually takes to turn a promising medical technology into a fundable, functioning company

Having the idea is hard.

Building the company around it may be even harder.

You do not have to find every person, solve every problem, and navigate every step by yourself. The right team and the right network can dramatically change the path from concept to commercialization.

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