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

Follow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/deeptechleaders

Podcast Production by Beauxhaus

Guest

Henrik Hagemann, MEng

Henrik is Co-founder and Board Director at Puraffinity

He embodies the spirit of extreme challenge, a drive that powers his work in Deep Tech. This same drive led him to bicycle the Silk Route from China to Denmark - a 9,350 km journey completed in just 87 days - and train Kung Fu full-time with Shaolin monks in China for four months.

Professionally, Henrik is recognised as a top innovator, having been named to both Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe and MIT Tech Review 35 Under 35 Europe in 2019. He is a recipient of the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering 1851 Royal Commission Enterprise Fellowship and was the single recipient of the Outstanding Student Achievement medal among 2,200 Imperial College London graduates in 2015.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrikhagemann/

Guest appearance on:

Defining the Right Problem | Henrik Hagemann from Puraffinity