
Robert J. Beckman
Corporate and Commercial Development Expert
Career Highlights
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Served in executive management leadership in various large and emerging healthcare companies, including those in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, clinical diagnostics, medical technology, manufacturing, and research products
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Formed The Channel Group, a strategic advisory business focused on transactional activities in healthcare sectors
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Founder and CEO of Intergen Company
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Formed Intergen through a management buyout of a division of Armour Pharmaceutical Company and led the company through a series of mergers and acquisitions globally as it became a leading GMP manufacturer of biologics to the biopharmaceutical and clinical diagnostic industries and a developer of research reagents and assays
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Founder of BIO, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, where he served as a member of the executive committee and Chair of the Emerging Companies Section. He was an active member of BIO's leadership during the period when the industry was in development
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Participated in negotiations on FDA reform, health care reform, and appeared at the House Ways and Means committee several times
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Served on public, private, and not for profit boards of directors, including service as Executive Chairman of a medtech company and a member of the executive committee of a public imaging company.
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Served as a trustee of the New York Medical College
Education
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BS Pharm, clinical pharmacy: Columbia University