Nick Pachuda, Senior VP, Portfolio & Development at Peptilogics

Benjamin Glenn is nationally recognized innovation strategist, speaker and coach based in the Silicon Valley. His work is keenly focused on helping entrepreneurs and innovators in enterprises big and small in our regulated industries identify, develop and maintain competitive advantages. Particularly with regard to our rapidly evolving health care sector, Benjamin's work is highlighted in Biodesign: The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies, a program he has served for over a decade.

Benjamin strongly believes in the increasing importance, and even the necessity, of creating and training a while array of multi-disciplinary teams. Benjamin's passionate presentations often focus on how professionals from different disciplines can successfully work together to create the products and services of the modern economy.

In his presentations, Benjamin draws on his diverse experiences growing up in Texas, serving in the military and working as a Silicon Valley patent attorney. His unique, humorous and often metaphor-ladened insights also draw from over two decades of advising clients on strategic, commercial, innovation and product development issues. As a result, his engaging style has inspired and entertained audiences at leading innovation and entrepreneurial programs nationwide including:

Stanford University BioDesign Program, UC San Francisco, Johns Hopkins University and Northwestern University, along with accelerator and incubator programs such as Matter Chicago, Texas Medical Center’s TMCx, South By SouthWest, VentureWell, Village Capital, Kauffman Foundation, Singularity University, and MedTech Innovator.

I love working with entrepreneurs and innovators that push the envelope of what's possible in life sciences. I leverage my clinical, technical and business experience to create, nurture, grow, and help partner startup companies. Whether it be through leadership, as an investor or board member, I always look to be a catalyst and accelerator of transformational innovation.