Consultants Roundtable

Eastern and Central MA

Friday, May 25, 2007
8:00 am
Rebecca's Café, Waltham, MA

Managing Virtual Teams

with Bernd Janssen, PhD
Science&Management Consulting

Target Audience: Consultants who facilitate team building tasks, coach managers and project leaders

In view of augmented outsourcing efforts across a broad range of industries, virtual teams, assembled from different organizations and at remote locations, are becoming a more common setting to drive projects. This poses particular challenges and may significantly impact the success rate.

The objective of this Roundtable is to increase the awareness of risks and opportunities as a first crucial step towards leveraging the full potential of virtual teams.

A 30 minute introduction will be followed by a discussion amongst participants who want to share their field experience.

Dr. Bernd Janssen has more than 25 years of experience in Drug Discovery, Management of Research and Development functions and international collaborations.

Prior to founding Science&Management Consulting, a Massachusetts based firm that serves companies in Europe and the US, Bernd held various leadership and management positions in the Pharmaceutical Industry, most recently as Director Medicinal Chemistry with Abbott Laboratories, and previously with BASF Pharma. There he has launched several drug candidates into clinical development stages.

As a graduate from the University of Bonn, Bernd earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Ruhr University of Bochum (Germany). He has coauthored over 50 basic patent applications and scientific papers, revealing his inventive contributions to Dermatology, Oncology and Immunology. He was also awarded the first BASF Innovation Prize for his seminal role in moving a discovery concept into a highly successful marketed product.

Bernd is member of several academic and industrial advisory boards.

rebecca's cafe
1601 Trapelo Road
Waltham, MA 02451
781.466.6666