Prakash Raman. Flagship

Flag­ship woos No­var­tis top deal­mak­er Prakash Ra­man in move to get the BD ball rolling ear­ly

Flag­ship Pi­o­neer­ing likes to be ahead of its times — so far ahead, per­haps, that it is of­ten chal­leng­ing to find part­ners for their star­tups while the sci­en­tif­ic scaf­fold­ing is un­der­way. But Prakash Ra­man is here to change that.

Ra­man, who most re­cent­ly head­ed up busi­ness de­vel­op­ment at the No­var­tis In­sti­tutes for Bio­Med­ical Re­search, be­came Flag­ship’s first chief busi­ness de­vel­op­ment of­fi­cer two weeks ago. By act­ing as a “cen­tral re­source” for the 100 com­pa­nies in the ven­ture fund’s port­fo­lio, he hopes to help en­tre­pre­neurs and man­age­ment teams strate­gize about deal­mak­ing to cap­ture val­ue be­yond the near-term val­i­da­tion of their plat­form tech­nolo­gies, Ra­man told End­points News.

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