Audrey Erbes, Principal, Erbes & Associates, is a life-science marketing and business development consultant providing clients with a global perspective to her assignments. A developer of customized executive education, she originated and currently teaches three bioscience marketing and business development courses for UC Berkeley and Santa Cruz Extensions.
Audrey has more than 25 years of managerial experience in marketing and business development in the Bay Area biotech and pharmaceutical industry and most recently was Executive Vice President and cofounder of Kowa Research Institute, a biopharmaceutical licensing and investment subsidiary of Kowa Company Ltd. Before that, she held various marketing and business development management positions at Syntex Corp. (acquired by Roche) in the U.S. and abroad, with an expertise in Europe and Asia/Pacific/Canada. She earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Florida.
Recent activities include publication “Face to Face with Investors,” Pharmaceutical Executive, (June 2003), chairing a BIO 2004 panel entitled “The Most Likely Successful Business Model for Personalized Medicine” and organizing and directing an 8-international speaker symposium and partnering meeting on June 10, 2004 for 15 Japanese biotech company and academic executives.
Denise Pringle brings extensive experience in domestic and international human resources. Her experience includes executive positions in both corporate and subsidiary-level HR for high tech and medical device industries. She has worked on transition teams for mergers and outsourcing and has had responsibility for training, organizational development, staffing and university relations.
Denise received her Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences with a concentration in History from San Jose State University. She currently holds an adjunct faculty position at San Jose State University's Professional Development Center.
Yvonne Ryan, Founder of Leader's Edge (San Jose, CA), is passionate about helping technical people become effective and successful leaders. For over 25 years, Yvonne worked as a software engineer, engineering manager/director, project/program manager, and consultant with companies in a variety of fields, including: Electronic CAD, manufacturing CAD/CAM, biomedical, compilers and computer language design, manufacturing systems, radio and television systems, and business systems. Yvonne's experiences as a manager, mentor, and trainer, and her ability to aid the recovery of companies and projects in crisis eventually led her to transition from engineering into a full-time career in coaching, facilitation, and training.
In addition to coaching, Yvonne is a trained mediator, an Instructor-of-Trainers, and an instructional designer. Yvonne has contributed to standards developed for the IEEE/DASC and was the conference chair for the 1998 VHDL International conference. She is current VP of Community Relations for the American Society for Training and Development (Silicon Valley Chapter), and volunteers regularly as a trainer and speaker for Scouting organizations and job support groups around the Bay Area. Though she works with individuals from many different backgrounds, her particular focus is coaching middle managers and team leaders in technical fields.
