With over 30 years experience in technology industries John has held executive positions in Operations, R&D, Sales and General Management in the aerospace, automation and for the last 15 years the Medical and Pharmaceutics sectors. He has been a founder of 4 technology based start-ups in Ireland UK and USA and has a track record of bringing innovative and disruptive businesses and products to market. He is personally accredited with over twenty commercialised US and International patents ranging from Robotics through to Life Support Ventilators. In 2000 John merged his medical device company Cerus with a US Bio-pharma company Aerogen Inc which he helped to bring public on NASDAQ later that year. The company was subsequently acquired by San Carlos based Nektar Therapeutics and in 2007 John lead a Leveraged MBO of his Strategic Business Unit from Nektar and is currently CEO of this company Aerogen Ltd, a world leader in Aerosol Drug Delivery Systems. A Chartered Engineer he holds qualifications in Computer Technology (Robotics), Mechanical and Production Engineering and an MBA from Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England. John is an Adjunct (guest) Lecturer at NUIG where he specialises in teaching entrepreneurism and innovation strategies. He is a member of the board of the Irish Medical Device Association (IMDA) and a former board member of the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET). . Specialties: Innovation & Blue Ocean Strategy Drug delivery technology

Managing Director & CEO @ From 2000 to Present (15 years) Founder CEO @ From 1998 to 2000 (2 years)

MBA @ Oxford Brookes University From 1999 to 2001 John Power is skilled in: Start-ups, Medical Devices, Entrepreneurship, R&D, Strategy, Business Development, Engineering, Biotechnology, Process Improvement, Management, Product Development, Leadership, FDA, Team Building, Sales Management, Clinical Trials, Commercialization