Jon Meyer
Principal and Co-founder at Life Science Strategy Group, LLC
Jon Meyer is co-founder and Managing Member of Life Science Strategy Group, LLC. For more than 15 years, Mr. Meyer has managed contract research service engagements across all phases of preclinical and clinical development. He has also consulted extensively to pharmaceutical, drug delivery and biotechnology clients in areas including dermatology, autoimmune disease, oncology, diabetes, pain management, and infectious disease. He has served as the day–to–day project lead on numerous strategic engagements including opportunity assessments, competitive intelligence, pricing and reimbursement analyses, forecasting, competitive benchmarking, positioning and messaging strategy and clinical trial design and analysis. Mr. Meyer has served as the engagement lead on numerous strategy development and due diligence support engagements in the preclinical and clinical services space for leading contract research organizations (CROs). Prior to LSSG, Mr. Meyer was a Director at Navigant Consulting and Managing Consultant at Front Line Strategic Consulting. Mr. Meyer was also a research scientist in the department of inflammatory disease at Roche Bioscience for 6 years and holds masters degrees in clinical science and business administration.

Ken Smith, MBA
Co–founder & Managing Member at Life Science Strategy Group, LLC
Ken Smith is co-founder and Managing Member of Life Science Strategy Group, LLC with over 15 years of life science consulting experience specializing in strategy development, opportunity assessments, new product planning, licensing and partnering and market analytics. Life Science Strategy clients served include pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostic, drug discovery, medical device companies and government and non-profit organizations. He has consulted in numerous therapeutic areas including CNS, neurodegenerative and cardiovascular disease, pain management, urology and women’s health, ophthalmology and metabolic disease. Mr. Smith has worked in the life science industry for over 30 years as a scientist, an industry executive and an experienced consultant. Prior to LSSG, Mr. Smith was a Managing Director at Navigant Consulting and was a Partner at Front Line Strategic Consulting. Prior to Front Line Strategic Consulting, Mr. Smith consulted for Emergent Consulting and was Vice President of Marketing and Sales and General Manager at GSI Lumonics. Life Sciences Division. Earlier in his career, Mr. Smith was Marketing Manager and Product Manager for Bio–Rad Laboratories, Research Associate at Collagen Biomedical and Research Manager at U.C. Davis Medical Sciences Laboratories. He holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration.

Frank Cavallo
Vice President, Business Development at Life Science Strategy Group, LLC
Frank Cavallo is Vice President of Business Development at Life Science Strategy Group and brings more than 30 years of experience in pharmaceutical and the healthcare industry marketing and sales. Prior to joining LSSG, he was an Associate Director in the Business Development Group at Navigant Consulting where he was responsible for generating new business opportunities for the Life Science Strategy Practice and Director of Business Development at Front Line Strategic Consulting. He began his career as a Sales Representative with the Ayerst Laboratories Division of American Home Products (Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals) where he held several key positions, including Sales Trainer, District Sales Manager, Sales Training Manager, and Assistant Director for Training and Development. Upon leaving Wyeth-Ayerst, he joined the McGraw-Hill Healthcare Group as an Account Executive, a position in which he was responsible for developing medical education and training programs for pharmaceutical and medical device companies. He held a similar position with Whole Systems International and was Vice President of Marketing and Sales at The Medi Cine Group and Adelphi Medi Cine, Omnicom Group Companies. Frank served in the United States Army as a Commissioned Officer in the Corps of Engineers and is a graduate of the University of Toronto and has a Masters Certificate in Business from A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University.

Wade Sunada
Managing Consultant at Life Science Strategy Group, LLC
Dr. Wade Sunada is a Managing Consultant with Life Science Strategy Group (LSSG) and has over 11 years of life sciences strategy consulting experience. Dr. Sunada´s functional expertise includes pre- and post-launch product planning and strategy, medical device technology assessments, opportunity assessments, licensing and partnering strategy, reimbursement strategy, and business and strategic planning. Dr. Sunada leads the Oncology practice for LSSG and has led numerous oncology projects including oncology program development, opportunity assessments, patient chart reviews, treatment algorithm and patient flow, and KOL research. His other therapeutic area expertise includes medical devices, neurology, inflammatory diseases, infectious diseases, vaccines, ophthalmology, cardiovascular and clinical technologies. Prior to LSSG, Dr. Sunada was a Managing Consultant with Navigant Consulting’s Life Science practice. Dr. Sunada obtained his Ph.D. from UC–Berkeley and UC–San Francisco in Bioengineering.

Ruth Truong, MBA
Senior Consultant at Life Science Strategy Group, LLC
Ms. Ruth Truong is a Consultant with the Life Science Strategy Group and has over 10 years of experience in the biotech and pharmaceutical industry. Ms. Truong has helped clients achieve their goals during engagements involving opportunity assessments, competitive intelligence, scenario analysis, messaging strategy, and corporate strategic planning. She has participated in a number of engagements with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and contract research companies in areas including oncology, endocrinology, orthopedics, CNS, respiratory diseases, preclinical and clinical trial development, as well as patient / consumer-driven research / buying patterns. Prior to joining Life Science Strategy Group, Ms. Truong was the Research Manager at BioCentury and was responsible for secondary research and analysis for the firm's publications on the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device markets, as well as management of the online databases on curated biopharma data.

Marianna Hecht, MBA
Consultant at Life Science Strategy Group, LLC
Mrs. Marianna Hecht is a Consultant with the Life Science Strategy Group and has helped clients to achieve their goals involving opportunity assessments, competitive intelligence, scenario analysis, messaging strategy, and corporate strategic planning. Mrs. Hecht has focused on contract research service engagements across all phases of preclinical and clinical development. She has also participated in a number of engagements with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies in areas including oncology, pain management, rheumatology and nephrology, testosterone replacement therapies, preclinical and clinical trial development, as well as patient /consumer-driven research/ buying patterns, and pricing assessments. Prior to joining Life Science Strategy Group, Ms. Hecht worked at Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV), a venture capital firm focused on healthcare, technology and cleantech investments. Mrs. Hecht has an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Lucy McNamara
Senior Analyst at Life Science Strategy Group, LLC
Lucy McNamara works as a Senior Analyst for Life Science Strategy Group, LLC (LSSG). Ms. McNamara works with CRO clients and the LSSG team to perform in-depth analysis and make strategic recommendations for market research projects in a variety of therapeutic areas. She supports the LSSG team to provide clients with knowledge, strategy and insight to address their opportunity assessment, modeling/forecasting, pricing, and competitive benchmarking needs. Ms. McNamara has been working at LSSG since graduating from Santa Clara University in 2012.

Nancy Yao
Analyst at Life Science Strategy Group, LLC
Ms. Yao is an Analyst with the Life Science Strategy Group focused on primary and secondary research and analytical assessments for the biopharmaceutical, medical device, drug discovery, diagnostic and contract research markets. Prior to joining Life Science Strategy Group, Mrs. Yao worked as a Senior Quality Control Associate at Genentech for 19 years. She is a subject matter expert in wet chemistry techniques, protocol and method development, and preparation/implementation of SOPs. Mrs. Yao’s functional expertise includes project management, business change control process management and primary market research collection, recruiting and logistics. Mrs. Yao has a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California Santa Cruz.

Morgan Foust
Information Technology at OutsourcePharma Advisory Board
Morgan Foust has been working at the intersection of information technology and bio/pharma/life sciences for over ten years. In addition to spearheading the technical development of the OutsourcePharma Advisory Board, he provides information technology guidance to Life Science Strategy Group. Prior to working with LSSG and OPAB, he performed system administration for Navigant Consulting, Inc and IT management for Front Line Strategic Consulting.