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Black Crow partners have served in a variety of senior management positions ranging from CEO, CCO, COO, CBO to VP of business development. Our particular expertise is in helping existing teams and investors position themselves to secure financing both via traditional venture routes as well as through alternative non-dilutive sources such as asset partnering, option deals and divestiture. Our global life sciences network and extensive deal-making experience is a key asset in the Black Crow Ventures portfolio. As former senior executives in life science companies, we capitalize on our experience, relationships and global breadth to create transactional shareholder value via two strategies: Hired Guns: Business development and M&A often times require external expertise to make a deal happen. Often times, reshaping strategy, and revamping presentation materials for a specific audience combined with our deep global network allows BCV to use surgical precision to find the right partner. Interim Management: In select cases, a more "hands on" approach is required. Life Science areas of expertise: - Therapeutics: to include both small and large molecules plus vaccines and stem cells. Specific TA expertise includes oncology, infectious disease, inflammation, metabolic disease, and central nervous system drugs - Molecular Diagnostics: Both in vitro and in vivo expertise with a wide range of applications from point-of-care to high throughput assays. - Veterinary: expertise in small and large animal therapeutics and diagnostics. - Nutraceuticals: Hands-on experience with complementary and alternative medicines particularly within the herbal product industry - Branded Generics: commercial and start-up experience with select branded generics for specific emerging markets. Particular expertise in Latin America and Asia.