Innovation Chat w/ Spark & Deliberate Innov | NYC – NYC Tech Events – GarysGuide | The #1 Resource for NYC Tech
We’ll discuss product development & innovation in the female healthcare sector.
About this event
We’ll discuss a number of things including:
1. New product development in the female healthcare space
2. Innovation at large & small healthcare companies
3. Current state of funding & support for healthtech startups & female founders
4. The road to inventing & launching a new product for women
5. Answers to your questions
Rachel is a champion for women’s health & a pioneer in the space, where she has passionately focused on driving the conversation on the business of women’s sexual & reproductive health. Rachel works on women’s businesses from the tops of their heads to the tips of their toes. As head of SPARK Solutions for Growth, a strategic & marketing consultancy, she has built an international client list that includes J&J, Allergan, Pfizer, Merck, Bayer & Church & Dwight, as well as venture-backed start-ups.
While leading Semprae Laboratories, Rachel & her team built a company that developed & marketed sexual health & wellness products for women – creating a new category & transforming women’s health. Semprae attracted significant media attention & industry interest & was sold to Innovus Pharmaceuticals in 2013.
As a business builder & Vagipreneur, she brings deep knowledge of menstruation, fertility, sexual disease prevention, birth control, pregnancy, menopause & incontinence to help brands & businesses grow. She has a best-selling book: Orgasmic Leadership: Profiting from the Coming Surge in Women’s Health & Wellness.
Dan is the CEO of Deliberate Innovation, a corporate innovation advisory & facilitation firm that works with highly regulated companies across the Fortune 500. Dan is also Co-Founder of Afterclean, a women’s health, medical device start-up business that was founded in 2019 along with Dr. Michael Ingber.
Dan is also the former Head of Pfizer’s World Wide Innovation group where he architected & led the Dare to Try program, one of the Fortune 100’s leading corporate innovation programs.
Dan is a keynote speaker & author in the field of corporate innovation & a contributing writer for several journals. He is a trained moderator, creative problem solving (CPS) facilitator, Design Thinking (DT) coach & a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). And when he is not working, Dan is a wrestling & soccer coach.