A Career in Commercialization of Science

Have you wondered how to transfer to the commercial world? Can your science be commercialized? Join a conversation with Christopher Roach, a VP in Strategy and Innovation at Auxly.

Speaker's Bio:

Christopher leads the Strategy, Science, and Innovation departments at Auxly Cannabis Group, ensuring the organization is at the forefront of the next generation of product innovation and practices. He is passionate about scientific innovation and specializes in aligning this passion with commercial advancement and solving complex business problems.

Previously, he was a management consultant at BCG where he specialized in large-scale transformation of global organizations, helping them solve their most complicated operational problems and identify value-creating opportunities. Before that, he was an accomplished academic researcher in Genome Sciences. During his Ph.D., he worked to find innovative ways to produce plant specialized metabolites with medicinal properties at costs orders of magnitudes lower than chemical synthesis or plant harvesting.

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