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

Mark Bjornsgaard

Mark Bjornsgaard, Founder and CEO of System Two Group, a venture capital firm that invests in and partners with leading corporations and entrepreneurs across Europe and the US.

Mark is a proven serial entrepreneur who has grown numerous businesses from scratch to scale, achieving seven exits so far. He has successfully raised hundreds of millions of dollars for over ten businesses in sectors including health care, technology, and energy.

His most recent success was founding Deep Green Technologies (now an Octopus Energy Generation company) in 2016. Deep Green builds and operates innovative heat reuse data centres, demonstrating his passion for creating positive social and environmental impact through his ventures. His current portfolio includes companies like Civo, Caldera, and Optect.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-bjornsgaard/

Guest appearance on:

Challenging Deep Tech Norms: Adopting Lean Principles from Lab to Market | Mark Bjornsgaard