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

Host

Chris Reichhelm

Chris is the founder & CEO of Deep Tech Leaders. He has been advising and recruiting for science, technology and engineering companies for more than 25-years, focused on appointing boards and executive teams. Over the past 12-years, he was worked with more than 120 Deep Tech start-ups & scale-ups across the Industrial, Life Science and Advanced Computing domains, helping them along their Lab to Market journeys. He works extensively with leading investors and regularly advises institutions and universities on leadership within Deep Tech businesses.

Chris is also the founder & CEO of Deep Tech Jobs, an online job platform that aims to connect the world's leading scientists and engineers with the most deeply technical science and engineering jobs.

Early in his career, Chris worked for Heidrick & Struggles. He later helped establish two London-based, technology-focused executive search firms. In 2011, he founded Peloton - now Deep Tech Leaders.

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