Feb 23, 2006
On the evening of February 22nd, Ashton Tweed had the pleasure of attending one of this year’s premier gala events, the Pennsylvania Bio’s Annual Dinner.
According to Mickey Flynn, President of PA Bio, "Our annual dinner was a spectacular event, bringing together our largest crowd yet to celebrate what is unique about our community. It was a night that will be remembered by everyone in attendance."
The biosciences community in Pennsylvania drew more than 650 professionals to the Crystal Tea Room in Philadelphia. Frank Baldino, Jr., Ph.D., Chairman and CEO of Cephalon was honored at the event. Dr. Baldino is the first recipient of The Hubert J.P. Schoemaker Leadership Award that recognizes an outstanding leader in the biosciences community who best exemplifies the spirit of innovation, demonstrated visionary leadership for the industry, and a vision for improving the lives of patients.
At the Ashton Tweed reserved table, our invited guests included Patrick Berdoz (CEO of Precimed, Inc.), Jim Datin (EVP of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc.), Tony Koblish (CEO of Orthovita, Inc.), Jim Sharpe (former CEO of Astralis, Ltd. and past president of PA BIO) and David Tierney (CEO of Valera Pharmaceuticals, Inc.). As you can imagine, the discussions during the dinner were lively and very engaging, to say the least.
There were ample networking opportunities throughout the evening, and we were fortunate to engage in discussions with Joe Scodari (Group Chairman of Pharmaceuticals, J & J), Frank Baldino (CEO of Cephalon, Inc.), Jim Greenwood (CEO of BIO), Mickey Flynn (President of PA Bio) and Dennis Yablonsky (Secretary for the Dept. of Community and Economic Development for the Commonwealth of PA), just to name a few.
We continue to receive encouraging support and validation for our Interim Employment concept and the creation of the region’s first Executive Talent Bank. During the past 30 days, we met with many new clients and we have been engaged or have proposals pending for more than a dozen interim assignments and permanent employment placements. There is clearly an unmet need for “interim” senior executive talent in the life sciences community. Ashton Tweed is grateful for the support we continue to receive from Pennsylvania Bio and the opportunities that it has created to help us increase awareness of our services to all of its members.
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