Jim Karkanias

Current

Board member at Stratos Group
Board member at Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association (WBBA)
Senior Director (Partner) at Microsoft

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Past

Executive Director at Merck
CTO at CoreTech
Director at Merck

Researcher at Johnson and Johnson

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Jim Karkanias’s Summary

Seasoned executive; skills span business, process, & tech domains across pharma, software, financial and manufacturing industries. Technologist as well as a business person..

Senior executive management of many types of companies ranging from start-up to multibillion dollar global corporations. Scope of responsibility spans development, research, resource management and technical infrastructure. Staff sizes ranged from 200-1000 employees with budget responsibilities approaching $500MM.

Conducted research projects earlier in career involving neuroplasticity, sensorium integration, pain modulation, cognition, memory, and network theory in classical and bioengineering contexts. Strong science and math background.

Led pioneering efforts in software development, one notable innovation is a distributed system which allows for the remote collection of data from physicians at a time that pre-dated both distributed system environments and the widespread use of the internet as a business tool. Another, more recent (2004), example includes a framework developed to be both flexible and transparent to the dynamically changing needs of the business. This sets the stage for the Information Ecosystem platform envisioned by me and discussed at length elsewhere.

Joined Microsoft in 2005 to apply these skills to help start a new venture – the Health Solutions Group – which aims to revolutionize healthcare through paradigm shifting approaches that integrate next generation business, process, and technology. Three years and 31 patents later, my team and I have been instrumental in creating an information platform for health and lifesciences spanning the physician, the consumer, and most recently (April 2009) the scientist. This most recent product is notable in that it advances both storage and reasoning technologies to a new high and holds a record for the largest and quickest customer wins, totaling many tens of millions, just a few months after shipping.

Jim Karkanias’s Specialties:

complex software development including hands-on coding and technical architecture, global operations, process engineeering, and business development for large enterprises at the business, procedural and technical level, all aspects of the lifescience industry, extensive startup expertise.

Jim Karkanias’s Experience

Board member

Stratos Group

(Think Tanks industry)

2008 — Present (1 year )
Board member

Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association (WBBA)

(Biotechnology industry)

2007 — Present (2 years )
Senior Director (Partner)

Microsoft

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

January 2006 — Present (4 years )

Senior executive in the Healthcare Solutions Group
Executive Director

Merck

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MRK; Pharmaceuticals industry)

September 2000 — January 2006 (5 years 5 months)

Senior Executive Management of operations functions for a multibillion dollar global company. Scope of responsibility comprehensively spans clinical research, resource management (facilities, finances, people, etc.) and technical infrastructure. Currently leading a group of 300 employees with budget responsibilities in excess of $450MM.
CTO

CoreTech

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1994 — 2000 (6 years )
Director

Merck

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MRK; Pharmaceuticals industry)

1987 — 1994 (7 years )
Researcher

Johnson and Johnson

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)

1983 — 1987 (4 years )