David H. Donabedian, PhD, MBA
Vice President, Strategic Alliances to the US CEEDD (Centre of Excellence for External Drug Discovery), GlaxoSmithKline, Massachusetts

Dr. Donabedian is the Vice President of Strategic Alliances in GSK's Centre of Excellence for External Drug Discovery (ceedd). In his role, Dr. Donabedian is primarily responsible for identifying and evaluating new business opportunities for the U.S. ceedd and supporting the current network of external alliances. Prior to joining the ceedd, Dr. Donabedian served as a principal of his own consultancy practice providing business development services to emerging biotechnology companies. He has sourced and closed several agreements with biopharmaceutical companies and academic institutions.

Dr. Donabedian's previous senior level positions include CEO, COO and VP of Business Development for Tutorzilla, BioChemics, and Surface Logix. Dr. Donabedian also worked as a Sr. Manager in Accenture's Strategic Services Consulting Group serving both in the U.S. and internationally, with assignments focusing on R&D post-merger integration, business unit strategy, and resource planning. Prior to Accenture, Dr. Donabedian held senior level positions at Sentry® Products, a Union Carbide life science venture (now Dow Chemical), where he headed a product development team specializing in developing and patenting a broad range of technologies to the life sciences industries. Dr. Donabedian began his research career as a scientist with SciMed Life Systems, a division of Boston Scientific, where he developed novel bioadhesives to treat abdominal aortic aneurysms. Dr. Donabedian is an inventor/co-inventor on several patents and has published several papers in peer-reviewed journals in the field of polymer science.

Since 2006, Dr. Donabedian has served as a member of University of Massachusetts Lowell Plastics Advisory Committee. He is also as an Alumni Network Advisor for the University of North Carolina Business School. He received an A.B. from St. Anselm College, a Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and an M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill where he was a Deloitte Case Cup Challenge Winner.