Brian R. Buxton is a Principal and co-founder of Easton Associates. He assists clients in the diagnostics, laboratory services and medical device industries on issues of strategy, business development and marketing. Prior to the establishment of Easton Associates, he spent four years with The Wilkerson Group and two as an independent consultant. In addition, Mr. Buxton spent 12 years as a corporate development and marketing executive with two major commercial laboratories, a worldwide financial services corporation and a major hospital association. He headed corporate development for Unilab Corporation, the largest clinical laboratory in California. Preceding this, Mr. Buxton was director of corporate development, and earlier of market planning, at MetPath Inc. (now Quest Diagnostics, Inc.). In addition, Mr. Buxton has taught marketing planning and sales management to MBA students as an Adjunct Professor of Marketing at Columbia University’s Graduate Business School. He earned an MBA with High Distinction (Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School and a BA in Philosophy (Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |