Paul Gurney is an Associate Partner in McKinsey’s Los Angeles Office. He serves biotechnology companies on a range of strategic topics including portfolio prioritization, product launch strategy, and optimizing commercial models. He has also had experience in renewable energy strategy and policy. Prior to McKinsey, Paul received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, developing new techniques for cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging.
Techonomy Lab Reports: Bio15
Gurney: Thank you, David. So we had the honor of sitting in on each of the panels and thought we’d come back and just have a very short discussion so that everybody could gain from the collective wisdom of each of the panels and some of the stories that we found pretty interesting. So thank […]
Flatt, Forgacs, Gurney, Komisar & Shetty: The Future of F&B
Gurney: All right, it’s great to be here. As David said, it’s now well into the lunch hour and we thought instead of letting you eat food, we would talk about food. But it’s our goal to get you all salivating so that you’ll truly enjoy the food once we release you to eat it. […]
Bio + Life Sciences
The Biotech Funding Dilemma
Bio-innovators and entrepreneurs are often frustrated that investors don’t see the scope of biological opportunity. The industry's funding models remain in flux. With appetite for risk unpredictable and a landscape that’s often unexplored, what’s a startup to do? How are big companies responding? In this video, Paul Gurney of McKinsey & Company moderates a discussion with Beth Seidenberg of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Lindy Fishburne of Breakout Labs and the Thiel Foundation, and Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Synthetic Genomics, Inc.
Conferences
Bio 15
Techonomy Bio is a big-picture exploration of the transformative global social and economic benefits driven by the rapid advances being made in the biological and life sciences.
Conferences
Bio 14
The theme for Techonomy 2019 in Half Moon Bay, California was “Reset and Restore: Governing Tech, Retrieving Ethics, and Acting on Climate.” We are in a unique period when corporate responsibility and big-picture thinking is absolutely essential.
