Team Group: Senior Consultant

Mr. Martinsons specializes in electronics and medical devices, although he works with a wide range of other technologies as well. He has over 40 years of large company and small business unit operations and consulting experience in the medical device/instrumentation and electronics industries. His skills encompass product design, program management, quality, and technology commercialization. He founded two new business units at Motorola that grew to combined revenues in excess of $250M, managing international operations across four plants and five design centers. In the life sciences arena, he developed “lab-on-a-chip&34; DNA testing technologies, complex instrumentation, and built and scaled highly automated manufacturing systems. As Vice President of Operations for Accumetrics, a private-equity backed blood platelet testing firm, he helped scale a turnaround business ten-fold in volumes and revenues over a 3-year period. He is adept at negotiating and managing relationships with major domestic and international clients and partners and has extensive experience in deploying lean enterprise and six-sigma principles. Bob served on Motorola’s Board of Directors Advisory Council and Science Advisory Board. He serves as a Management Fellow at UCSD Connect. Bob holds 4 patents.

Donna specializes in biomedical, biotechnology, and chemistry. She has worked at Wyeth, Johnson and Johnson, and Forest Laboratories. Prior to entering industry, she managed a research and clinical laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco. She also worked at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Gladstone Foundation for Cardiovascular Research. Donna has published articles in fields such as endocrinology, biochemistry, and microbiology She focuses on business development, strategic research, and market planning for many sectors of these industries. Donna has served both large and small companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Amgen, Johnson and Johnson, Bracco Diagnostics, and BMS among others.

Mr. Speser is Foresight’s oldest employee. A co-founder of the company he is still active in marketing and participating in problem solving for customers. His successes have ranged from licensing smart card technology to VISA and other major corporations to putting together Phase III deals for SBIR firms like Polytronixs and UTD to funding university/industry centers such as the Health Care Devices and Instrumentation Institute of the State University of New York at Buffalo. For 18 years he also was the project manager for the National SBIR Conferences. Prior to co-founding Foresight, he was a Board Member and Senior Vice President Marketing at the W. Bergman Company. After participating in the build and sale of that company, he worked in turn around marketing for major banks, helping to rescue companies from pending bankruptcy in industries ranging from plastics manufacturing to spray cans for retail products to real estate.

Mr. Pradhan has worked with individuals, universities and companies on intellectual property strategies, licensing and agreement negotiations, technology and company due diligence, commercialization strategy and business planning. Arundeep was the Associate Vice President of Technology Transfer and Business Development at Oregon Health & Science University where he managed industry collaborations, technology licensing and intellectual property. The office adopted Technology Transfer 3.0, a model integrating business development, technology transfer, industry alliances, technology ventures and startups. While at OHSU, he oversaw a five-fold growth in industry collaborations, significant growth in licensing and an expansion of the office, including the addition of in-house patent agents. He has been instrumental in developing seed and investment funding programs at multiple universities, and forging multi-partner alliances for the development of medical devices, biomarkers and therapeutics. He is also experience in technology commercialization in the fields of agriculture, chemicals, software and electronics. Arundeep has also worked extensively with city, state and federal economic development agencies to promote technology commercialization and regional economic growth. As President of AUTM in 2009, he led the organization in developing its first comprehensive strategic plan; engaging on policy issues with respect to patent reform, the Bayh-Dole act, economic development, commercialization of university research; and, increasing the international outreach of AUTM to Japan, Singapore, India, China, Korea and the Philippines. Arundeep was the President of the AUTM Foundation in 2011 where he helped to create a model for sustainable revenue to fund programs within the Foundation. He was on the on the AUTM Board of Trustees 2006 to 2007 (Vice President for Annual Meeting), 2008 (President Elect) and 2010 (Past President).