Lab to Market Leadership with Chris Reichhelm

With over 25 years of experience in recruiting leadership teams and boards for advanced science and engineering companies, Chris Reichhelm, CEO of Deep Tech Leaders, offers an insider’s perspective on the pivotal decisions and strategies that shape the success of startups embarking on the lab-to-market journey.

This podcast doesn’t just celebrate innovation for its own sake; instead, it highlights what it truly takes to build, scale, and sustain a successful deep tech company. Through conversations with entrepreneurs, investors, executives, and other key players, Chris will explore the management disciplines, cultures, and behaviours essential for commercialising and scaling deep tech innovations. Each episode will aim to unravel the complexities behind turning rich, research-intensive IP into commercially viable products across various sectors like computing, biotech, materials science, and more.

'Lab to Market Leadership' is for those who are ready to learn from past mistakes and successes to better navigate the path from innovation to market. Whether you're an entrepreneur, an investor, or simply a deep tech enthusiast, this podcast offers valuable lessons and insights to enhance your understanding and approach to building groundbreaking companies that aim to solve the world's biggest problems and improve our way of life.

Learn more about Lab to Market Leadership: www.deeptechleaders.com

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Podcast Production by Beauxhaus

Guest

Tim Cesarek, MBA

Tim Cesarek is the Chief Executive Officer of Synata Bio and a veteran leader in the renewable fuels, chemicals, and energy sectors. With over 30 years of experience in business development and private equity, Tim specialises in bridging the gap between innovative sustainability technology and large-scale commercial success. His career includes pivotal roles as Chief Commercial Officer at Gevo and Senior VP of Global Business Development at Enerkem, where he led project origination and waste-to-fuel commercialisation efforts. A former Managing Director at Waste Management and President of Koch Genesis Company, Tim has sat on over 20 boards, bringing a unique dual perspective of investor and operator to the deep-tech landscape.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-cesarek-567565a/

Guest appearance on:

Commercialising Novel Chemistry | Tim Cesarek