BioBoss

I'm not afraid of the gray area or the darkness that surrounds a few inches in front of your face, which is really what this business is all about." - Constantine Theodorpulos, Founder and CEO of Go Therapeutics

"I really rely on the expertise of the team and I value input. I also value contradiction." - Ankit Mahadevia, founder and CEO of Spero Therapeutics

"It would have been a tremendous regret to have never tried—much worse than trying and failing. Much worse." - Lewis Bender, Founder and CEO of Intensity Therapeutics,

"I will always ask myself, what can I do with my knowledge in science to be able to bridge that to patients?" - Michel Detheux, co-founder and CEO of iTeos Therapeutics

"Be very fair. You don't know it all. And be willing to actually listen to people. And when you're wrong, tell people you're wrong." - Nessan Bermingham: Founder, President and CEO of Triplet Therapeutics

"If you're a CEO, and you're doing things that are repetitive, then you're probably not doing your job." - Antony Mattessich, CEO of Ocular Therapeutix

BioBoss host John Simboli welcomes you to Season 2!

"The most creative thing in the world for me is just how does an idea get transformed by the people who collect around it." - George Goldsmith, Co-Founder and CEO of Compass Pathways

“It's Biology that I love the most. It has a beauty in it that's actually quite hard to capture in numbers." - Yuval Cohen, CEO of Corbus Pharmaceuticals

"Originally, I really thought about hiring people to do a list of activities and now I try to really think about hiring people to develop that list of activities to solve a problem" - Sven Karlsson, Co-Founder of Platelet BioGenesis

"You just be yourself. That's the most effective way to lead. And on top of it, as a leader, you have to have vision." - Liang Schweizer, Co-founder, President, and CEO of HiFiBiO

"Very often, it's not about giving the right answer but asking the right question.” - Florian Wegener, CEO of Zageno.

"My job is to decide. If we can't get consensus, I decide, I call it. That's what I get paid for. That's how I do that, but l also say when you've got something wrong, fix it as quick as you can." – John Dawson, CEO of Oxford Biomedica

"We want to hear everybody's voice. It's all well saying that you believe in diversity and then only listen to yourself." - Martin Mackay, Co-founder of Rallybio

"I'm helping build a technology and I'm helping lead an organization and I actually prefer putting founder on things than chief executive officer."  - Ashley Kalinauskas, Founder and CEO of Torigen Pharma

"What we do in small pharma is very much like movie making, in a way, because you have the story that you want to flesh out and you bring together the team that you need for the movie." -  Doug Manion, CEO of Kleo Pharmaceuticals

"In any venture, you need to have courage. Courage is the thing that I think is most characteristic of any leader." -  Bijan Almassian, President and CEO of CaroGen Corporation

"My thing was never to be in one box for seven years; right? It was—What's the goals; How do I get them accomplished; How do we drive the science forward?" – Mark Day, President and CEO of Bioasis Technologies

"You have to be an eternal optimist because it's a tough business and, by nature, I'm somebody who always thinks we can get through this." – Jennifer Good, CEO of Trevi Therapeutics.

"It's like an orchestra . . . I feel very much like a conductor." — Erika Smith, Chief Executive Officer of ReNetX Bio.

“I really wanted to be in a place where I could see if I could build something" —John Houston, President and Chief Executive Officer of Arvinas. John is the 2018 BioCT Entrepreneur of the Year.  Welcome to BioBoss.

Introducing BioBoss.  As a member of the biopharma community you know there aren't many places to hear first-hand from the corner office. BioBoss changes that.  BioBoss is a window into the thinking of founders, CEOs, and those who lead today's biopharma companies. Listen each month to a new conversation between branding veteran John Simboli and biopharma executives. Hear answers to the...