Panel: Looking Outside Your Organization for Innovation (Startup Partnerships)
Priscilla Beal, Global Head, G4A Digital Health Ecosystem & Engagement, Bayer
In her current role as Head of Digital Health Engagement for Bayer G4A, Priscilla applies her passion for helping people live happier, healthier lives to identifying, establishing and growing digital health partnerships with startups, entrepreneurs, VCs and the innovation ecosystem at-large. Her passion and contributions to Digital Health were recently recognized by CB Insights, who named Priscilla one of “15 Smart People in Healthcare” (Nov 2018) and MM&M’s “Top 40 Healthcare Transformers” (March 2019). In addition to helping Bayer Consumer and Pharmaceutical Health divisions deliver new products, solutions and experiences to the patient/consumer, Priscilla is dedicated to people development, especially where diversity and inclusion is concerned. She joined Bayer in 2014. Prior to Bayer, she spent 10 years managing the digital projects and strategies of global clients, where her focus was on customer centricity and delighting people with usable, engaging and beautiful digital experiences.
Dave Mawhinney, Executive Director, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University
Dave is an experienced entrepreneur, investor and senior executive with a demonstrated history of creating valuable companies. Rapidly promoted in higher education for strong classroom performance and creating broad and deep experiential learning programs to benefit students, faculty and alumni. Strong business development professional with a MBA with Distinction focused in Entrepreneurship from Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business. Summa Cu Laude graduate from IUP with a major in Physics and minors in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
Paul Nielsen Vice President, Strategic Programs & Partnerships, Optum
Paul is a global executive with more than 25 years of experience working with technology companies who design and develop software and hardware solutions for the telecommunications, IT service provider, health care and consumer electronic industries. Paul has held leadership roles in sales, marketing, business development and executive management positions. Through his roles in these companies, Paul has driven advanced technologies into the market that generated operational savings, increased average revenue per user, competitive advantages and customer retention.
Paul earned a Bachelor of Science degree in science and computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Warren Pennington, Head of Investment Management Fintech Strategies, Vanguard
Warren Pennington is a principal and global head of Vanguard’s Office of Investment Management Fintech Strategies. The Office of IMFS mission is to actively explore new technologies in ways that could dramatically improve Vanguard’s investment performance, make global capital markets work better for investors, and serve as a catalyst for innovation within the Investment Management Group (IMG) at Vanguard. IMG manages over $5 Trillion of assets globally, across both passive and active strategies in the fixed income, equities, currencies, and derivatives markets. Before joining Vanguard in 2012, Mr. Pennington worked for the Macquarie Group in various senior leadership roles in their Investment Management division. Prior to working for Macquarie, Warren was division controller and ran operations in the consumer lending and corporate trust businesses at Wells Fargo Bank. He earned his B.S. Aerospace Engineering and M.S. Telecommunications degrees from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is California CPA, and serves on the SIFMA Operations and Technology Steering Committee as well as the Advisory Board of the Ben Franklin Fintech Accelerator program out of Philadelphia.
Moderator: Nicholas Hamilton-Archer, Executive Director of Executive Education at Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
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