Dr. Vallet joins EnVivo from Cyrma Consulting, LLC. Dr. Vallet has over 20 years experience in a variety of research, marketing and business roles in life sciences, including in 14 years the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to founding Cyrma, Dr. Vallet most recently served as Vice President of Business and Commercial Development at Guilford Pharmaceuticals, Inc. where he led the company’s business development initiatives. Prior to Guilford, Dr. Vallet held senior level business development and marketing positions at Pierre Fabre (France), Parke-Davis (Germany), Warner Lambert (USA) and Bristol Myers Squibb (USA), completing numerous R&D, commercialization and M&A agreements with global pharmaceutical and life sciences companies in Europe and the US. Dr. Vallet started his career as a genetic engineer at the Geneva Branch of Battelle Institute, an American research contract and consulting organization. Progressing through a number of domestic and international positions, Dr. Vallet retired from BMS as a Vice President of Business Development for the European Region. He holds a Master of Biochemistry from University of Orsay Paris XI, France and a D.E.A. of Quantitative Genetics from the same university. He was a Research & Teaching Assistant in the Molecular Biology Department of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, which sponsored his doctoral work. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology in 1985 and a Masters of Business Administration from IMD in 1988 (International Management Development, Switzerland). Dr. Vallet is a member of the Licensing Executive Society and a member of the Business Development Group of the US Bio-industry Association. |