Arlen D Meyers, MD, MBAUniversity of Colorado School of Medicine

Founding President and CEO, www.sopenet.org

•Rising health care costs•Access•Quality•Stressed innovation pipeline•Disenfranchized and disempowered physicians•Globalization •Lack of bioentrepreneurship knowledge, skills and abilities•Lack of early stage money•Lack of opportunities to get experience

AssociateQuestionExperimentObserveNetworkhttp://hbr.org/2009/12/the-innovators-dna/sb2

Education

Experience

Connections/Mentors

Cash

Resources

Culture celebrating innovation and entrepreneurshipStructure and connectedness outside of the bureaucracyProcess and metrics that reward successInnovators

The Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (www.s0penet.org) and linkedin group, is a NFP global biomedical and healthcare innovation network . Members include healthcare entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, and industry representatives

The mission of SoPE is to help biomedical and healthcare entrepreneurs get their ideas, discoveries and inventions to market by providing them with education , connections to service providers and investors and offering value added products and services.

Sope U is an online learning platformSoPE Chapters offer monthly educational and network eventsPartnerships with others offering meetings, seminars, etcSoPE Summit Collaborations with International Business Schools CU Program in Bioinnovation and Entrepreneurship

Working with local technology transfer offices or industrySoPE Innovation Scholars ProgramAcclerators like HealthStartZ in Denver

3000 people on linkedin groupExtensive social media networkSoPE Box RadioSoPE NewsletterSoPE Website at www.sopenet.org Monthly Chapter meetings

Connections to early stage investorsCollaborations with TIE Rockies, National Association of Seed and Venture Funds, Rockies Venture Club, and other international angel networksCrowd funding intermediary?SoPE Capital Mangement ?

• 2800 global members on linkedin and website• Growing at 150 members/month• Chapters in Nigeria, India, Turkey, San Diego, Colorado, St Louis, Wash/MD/ N VA

and growing to 20• SoPE Affinity Partners Program• SoPE Innovation Scholars Program with Acclarent

Wells FargoBank of AmericaMorgan Stanley Smith BarneyAcclarent/Johnson and JohnsonMedvoyHSBC Bank

•SOPE promotes the program to members and co-manages the program•Industry partner hires Innovation Scholar for 6 months /1 year•Designed to expose IS to different aspects of life science technology commercialization•Expectation is that IS will pursue technology commercialization interest , teaching and research

•Helping members connect to HNW investors and angels•Connecting members to bioengineers and contract manufacturers•Finding C-suite talent•Connecting to international supply chains and marketing channels•Facilitating technology transfer•Helping with IT development

•Expand membership to 10K•Expand network of global chapters•NFP c(6) and c(3) SoPE Educational and Research Foundation•Accelerate global biomedical and healthcare innovation•Expand ISP program•Expand SoPE Affinity Partners Program•Enhance US global competitiveness in biomedical innovation•SoPE U•SoPE Magazine•SoPE Meetings with other organizations•SoPE Consultants: The SoPE Brain•SoPE Capital Management/Crowd Funding Intermediary?

Arlen Meyers, MD, MBAceo@sopenet.net