William Szczepaniak

Director of Business Development

2023 - Current

Principal

2022 - 2023

Director, UCeed Health and Life Science Funds

2022 - 2022

Fund Manager, UCeed Health

2020 - 2022

Director, Economic Development Life Sciences Innovation Hub

2020 - 2022

Management Consultant

2014 - 2020

Provide product management, business development, and technology transfer consulting services to a broad range of medical device companies, healthcare service providers, and individual academic faculty inventors.

Product Manager, Intraoperative Monitoring

2012 - 2014

Directed all global upstream- and downstream- product management and business development activities for the leading producer of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) medical devices.

Laboratory Manager / Research Associate

2005 - 2012

Designed, built, and managed all operational aspects of a startup research laboratory to study pulmonary vascular physiology and clinically translatable animals models of human lung disease.

Senior Associate Consultant

2004 - 2005

Served as a trusted intellectual property (IP) strategy consultant to Fortune 100, 500, mid-size and growth-stage companies.

Senior Licensing Manager

2002 - 2004

Recruited as a senior member of a core startup team to form the first fully staffed and funded technology transfer office at major research university with an annual research budget of nearly $300M

Adjunct Professor

2002 - 2004

Codeveloped and co-taught an upper-level law school elective course entitled, "Biotechnology Law and Policy" for two consecutive years.

Licensing Officer, Technology Transfer Office

2000 - 2002

First person hired in the CMU Technology Transfer Office to specialize in the commercialization of biotechnology, medical device, and life science technologies.

Director of Technology Development

1999 - 2000

Played key technical and business roles as one of the earliest members of a biotechnology startup company.