 | Homie Razavi has over fifteen years of experience in the industry with a decade of experience in decision analysis, project and portfolio evaluation/assessment. Prior to founding Kromite, he was in charge of the Portfolio Management and Valuation group at Pharmacia with responsibility for analyzing individual pipeline projects as well as the portfolio management processes. His team worked on over 80 projects, with an R&D spending of $2 billion annually, in a number of therapeutic areas: inflammation/ arthritis, oncology, ophthalmology, urology, CNS and anti-infective. At Searle Pharmaceuticals, he helped establish and lead the portfolio management activities in the Discovery organization with 30 projects worth over $30 billion. In addition, he was responsible for helping oncology and cardiovascular teams evaluate decisions and assess risk of different strategies.
During his tenure at Kromite, he has helped a broad spectrum of pharmaceutical companies with their portfolio processes, project assessments, and improvement of the quality and speed of their decision making through facilitated meetings.
He has a broad management background, with experience in business and commercial development as well as R&D. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Colorado and an MBA from Washington University. |
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Jack Kloeber is a retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel with experience in R&D portfolio management, decision analysis, modeling and simulation, technology selection, and strategy development. Jack taught mathematics at West Point for 3 years and graduate level decision analysis, systems simulation, and technology selection for 6 years at the Air Force Institute of Technology. His work has supported decisions for various superfund sites within the Department of Energy, and many technology organizations within the Departments of Army, Air Force, and Navy. Jack was the head of Portfolio Management for Bristol-Myers Squibb. More recently, he was the head of the Portfolio Management for J&J Pharma Services where he coordinated the portfolio management efforts for J&J Pharmaceuticals across multiple R&D and marketing operating companies. Jack is currently a Senior Partner at Kromite.
He received his Ph.D. in Economic Decision Analysis from Georgia Institute of Technology and Masters in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University. |