BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.6//EN TZID:America/Phoenix X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Phoenix BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1914@azbio.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240827T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240827T090000 DTSTAMP:20240805T173148Z URL:https://www.azbio.org/events/azbiopeers-protecting-your-innovations-in tellectual-property-essentials-2 SUMMARY:AZBioPEERS: Preparing for Investor Success - Essentials for Startup s - - 27 Aug 24 08:00 DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn preparation for the 2024 White Hat Life Science Investor Conference\, we are pleased to offer you an AZBioPEERS webinar presented by Richard Kovacik\, JD\, MBA\, Managing Director of the Healthcare Growth Group. This webinar will equip startups with an overview of the most impo rtant knowledge and considerations needed to attract and engage investors. This session will cover critical areas including: understanding reimburse ment pathways\; turning innovations into viable product or service offerin gs\; developing winning business\, marketing\, and commercialization strat egies\; the importance of milestones\, performance\, and scale-up\; buildi ng a credible team\; and crafting compelling investor decks. Whether you ’re an early-stage startup or a late-stage startup\, and whether you’r e preparing for your first pitch or looking to refine your approach\, this webinar will provide valuable insights and practical tips to help you suc ceed.\nRegister Here\nTuesday\, August 27\, 2024\n\n8:00 am - 9:00 am (AZS T) on Zoom\nAbout Our Speaker:\nRichard Kovacik\, JD\, MBA\, Founding and Managing Director of Healthcare Growth Group\n\n\n\nWith Over 15 years of experience in healthcare industry leadership\, innovation\, and strategic business development\, Richard operates at the forefront of healthcare tra nsformation. As the Founder and Managing Director of the Healthcare Growth Group\, Richard brings a wealth of strategic and operational leadership e xpertise across the spectrum of functions needed to achieve accelerated gr owth. Deeply purposeful and passionate about driving exceptional growth ou tcomes for healthcare enterprises\, Richard plans and executes strategic g rowth initiatives to supercharge successful product / market launches and stakeholder exits such as capitalizations\, recapitalizations\, M&\;As and IPOs.\n\nRichard’s track record of achievement in the healthcare ind ustry features leading and transformative roles for leading and transforma tive healthcare organizations\, at the key inflection point of when the mo st dramatic value was created and captured by each organization and its in vestors.\n\nPrior to founding HGG\, Richard served as a senior executive ( Chief Development Officer and General Counsel) of VieMed. At VieMed\, Rich ard was responsible for a dramatic\, national\, payer network and market e xpansion that helped secure VieMed’s status as the nation’s largest in dependent respiratory disease management company in the United States – and helped drive VieMed’s public markets listing on Nasdaq. Planning and executing unique payer market access\, managed care\, and payer partnersh ip initiatives\, at an unprecedented scale\, Richard sourced\, negotiated\ , and closed a vast majority of VieMed’s current contracts\, with both i mmediate and lasting impact on VieMed’s revenues.\n\nRichard also succes sfully established and developed (Founder and President) an innovative\, m obile\, integrated healthcare delivery system\, Comprehensive Mobile Care. Today\, Comprehensive Mobile Care provides onsite dentistry\, audiology\, optometry\, and podiatry services to institutional patients in seventeen US states. Prior to Comprehensive Mobile Care\, Richard served as a Direct or of ReachOut Healthcare America\, then the largest mobile healthcare com pany in the US\, in its period of eldercare market expansion and recapital ization to Morgan Stanley. On two different occasions\, Richard partnered and assisted in the formation of innovative health insurance companies pro viding innovative healthcare financing solutions supporting the revenue mo dels of Richard’s enterprises and those of his partners.\n\nRichard bega n his career of providing exceptional professional services – and pragma tic solutions to complex problems faced by healthcare industry clients – while working as an attorney in the California offices of leading nationa l law firms Jones Day (a leading international law firm) and Hooper\, Lund y &\; Bookman (a leading US healthcare law firm). Richard holds a JD an d a BA in Organizational Studies from the University of Michigan and an MB A from the University of Arizona Eller College of Management. Richard is b ased in Phoenix\, Arizona. When he is not driving remarkable performance\, growth\, and success for his national and international clients\, Richard enjoys exploring diverse cultures through travel.\n\n \; CATEGORIES:Education END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Phoenix X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Phoenix BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20230828T080000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR