Jennifer Sydeski

💠20 years of Innovation and R&D Experience 💠10 years of Launching Cutting Edge Products and Building Brands 💠 Crafting solutions and finding opportunities in the nooks & edges, where conventional strategies don’t fit 💠 Building towards a more personal🩺, effective🔬, ethical🕯️, and equitable 🟰 future of health🩸

🟢 Open to a new strategic leadership opportunity*

As an innovator and strategist in the life science and health technologies world, I help organizations grow, develop, and invest where novel tactics are demanded to meet rising markets, converging technologies, the niche, and the cutting-edge. I advise, consult, teach, and lead in the Health Technologies⚕️, MDx🧬, IoT/IoMT Wearables⌚, and Wearable Robotics🤖 spaces with a focus on high-potential business concepts with a jaw-dropping MVP and top technical leadership that my Innovation, Strategy, and BizOps expertise can support from before those first sales through scale. I’m passionate about inspiring teams to stretch beyond current capabilities by honoring, celebrating, and leveraging their superpowers and enthusiasms. As a curious life-long learner and seeker of newly relevant synergies, I’m always venturing across industries and functions to cross-pollinate winning techniques and connections.

With 20 years of R&D, Innovation, & Strategy experience, I’ve spent the last decade+ developing and pushing out products into the market for start-ups and corporate ventures with a focus on go-to-markets that leverage consumer or medical communities and technologies that interact with our bodies. I have education in Privacy Engineering, Machine Learning, Molecular Biology, Bioengineering, Chemistry, Physics, East Asian Studies, & Applied Mathematics, and Organizational Leadership, & I've graduated from start-up training programs including AlphaLab Gear, Ascender Boot Camp, Y-Combinator Start-Up School, StartUp Boost, & Founder Institute.

I'm here to catapult the best tech for these bodies we have here into the market: Across Wearable Tech, Digital Health, Life Sciences, Biotech, Med Tech, Health Tech, & Consumer Health, Let's get to work! 🌱💡⚙️

*🟢For 3 years I've reported to the CIO of a great $7B company. After a strategy shift, my long-term passion for health/med innovation is now misaligned there. Examples of a good fit might be Head of Community Marketing, VP of Innovation, Director of Life Sciences GTM Strategy, Head of Product Development, Chief Strategy Officer, Head of Digital Health, Director of Translational Research or Director of Health Technologies.

As an innovator and strategist in the life science and health technologies world, I help organizations grow, develop, and invest where novel tactics are demanded to meet rising markets, converging technologies, the niche, and the cutting-edge. I advise, consult, teach, and lead in the Health Technologies⚕️, MDx🧬, IoT/IoMT Wearables⌚, and Wearable Robotics🤖 spaces with a focus on high-potential business concepts with a jaw-dropping MVP and top technical leadership that my Innovation, Strategy, and BizOps expertise can support from before those first sales through scale. I’m passionate about inspiring teams to stretch beyond current capabilities by honoring, celebrating, and leveraging their superpowers and enthusiasms. As a curious life-long learner and seeker of newly relevant synergies, I’m always venturing across industries and functions to cross-pollinate winning techniques and connections.

With 20 years of R&D, Innovation, & Strategy experience, I’ve spent the last decade+ developing and pushing out products into the market for start-ups and corporate ventures with a focus on go-to-markets that leverage consumer or medical communities and technologies that interact with our bodies. I have education in Privacy Engineering, Machine Learning, Molecular Biology, Bioengineering, Chemistry, Physics, East Asian Studies, & Applied Mathematics, and Organizational Leadership, & I've graduated from start-up training programs including AlphaLab Gear, Ascender Boot Camp, Y-Combinator Start-Up School, StartUp Boost, & Founder Institute.

I'm here to catapult the best tech for these bodies we have here into the market: Across Wearable Tech, Digital Health, Life Sciences, Biotech, Med Tech, Health Tech, & Consumer Health, Let's get to work! 🌱💡⚙️

Post-Grad

• Privacy Engineering (CMU Certificate 2021)
• Start-up accelerator, pre-accelerator, and incubator training programs (Alpha Lab Gear, Y-Combinator Start-Up School, Ascender, Start-Up Boost, Founder Institute 2018-2020)

Academic

• MS Molecular Biology (Duquesne 2012)
• Post-Bacc Coursework Business Management (Point Park 2013-2014)
• BS Chemistry Concentration: Biochemistry Minors: Applied Mathematics, Physics, East Asian Studies (Slippery Rock 2008)
• Undergrad Coursework 104 creds Bioengineering (Pitt 2001-2005)

Detailed Educational Background
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Carnegie Mellon University PE Certificate, Privacy Engineering

2021 - 2021

AlphaLab Gear Start-Up Accelerator Program

2020 

Y Combinator  StartUp School
2019 10-week interactive program to workshop startup ideas, talking with users, pitching, planning for minimum viable product (MVP), launching and iterating, time & prioritization, setting KPIs & goals, growth, team, managing, pivoting, culture, and leadership.

Start-Up Boost  Pre-Accelerator Program
2019  Experienced entrepreneurs worked with us to accelerate our customer development, pitch skills, market sizing, positioning, and fundraising.

Innovation Works  Incubator Program

2019 Emerging Technology Assistance Program- Alongside accelerator companies in the AlphaLab Gear space, we joined the 2019 cohort in ALG's extensive curriculum across business functions for start-up leadership from accounting and financial strategy to conflict management using improv.

 

AscenderPGH BootCamp
2019  Business Planning through BMC, Financial Modeling, Pitching Skills, Founder Skills, etc in a boot camp over 2 weeks

Upstream Coding  Coding BootCamp, Machine Learning

2019 8-week instructional bootcamp using kaggle datasets in replit IDE to develop skills for working with Python dataframes, cleaning datasets, and building ML Models (Logistic Regression & Decision Trees).

Founder Institute  Pre-Accelerator, Executive Leadership & Start-Up Growth

2018 14-week intensive business education including customer discovery, branding & design, cash flow management, legal, IP, go-to market strategy, scale planning, product development, hiring and onboarding, and fundraising.

Point Park University Postbaccalaureate, Business Management

2013 Postbaccalaureate study of business, operations, and marketing in pursuit of my goal to drive innovation and market viability while leveraging technology for better medical, safety, and health outcomes.

Duquesne University Master of Science (MS), Molecular Biology

2010 - 2012 Activities and societies: Duquesne Society for Biotechnology (President 2011-2012), Graduate Society of Biological Scientists (Historian 2011-2012)

Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania  Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry

2007 - 2008 Concentration in Biochemistry, Minor in Applied Mathematics, Minor in Physics, Minor in East Asian Studies with Chinese Language

University of Pittsburgh (¾ of a Bachelor of Engineering BE), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering 

2001 - 2006 Activities and societies: Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (Student Delegate: 2006 Conference), Engineering Student Council (Publicity Chair 2004, 2005), Biomedical Engineering Society (Engineer Week Chair 2004), Society for Women in Engineering (Webmaster 2004), Phi Sigma Rho, Pittsburgh Kajukenbo (Founding Member, Business Manager 2005-2006), Pittsburgh Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (Founding Member, Business Manager 2005-2006).

Ripley High School High School Diploma

1997 - 2001 Activities and societies: Mu Alpha Theta, Academic Team (Quiz Bowl), Drama Club, Science Olympiad, Science Club, Odyssey of the Mind, National Honor Society, Astronomy Club, Hi-Y, Environmental Awareness Club, Interact, Pep Club, Volleyball, Senior League Softball, Athletes Reading to Students, Theater performances: Send Me No Flowers (Supporting Director and Audio Tech), Once Upon a Summertime (Tiffany), Jenny Kissed Me (Jenny), The Vampire (Lydia), Egad: The Woman in White, Our Town (various minor roles)