FGC Masterclass: Building Partnerships to Scale Your Business

Scaling a business isn’t just about growth - it’s about building the right strategic partnerships to unlock new opportunities. In this masterclass, Nerida will cover the following topics based on more than 25 years of diverse business and transaction experience.

• Having a partnership strategy
• Leverage partnerships for funding, market entry, and innovation
• Identify and approach the right partners
• Create win-win collaborations
• Overcome common partnership challenges

Agenda:
3:30-4pm Networking
4-5pm Masterclass
5-6pm Networking

About Nerida Scott

Nerida Scott is the Regional Head, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, EMEA, located at the Innovation Centre in London. Nerida oversees the EMEA portfolio of co-investments and collaborations to construct, prioritise and advance the early external innovation portfolio of J&J, which includes pharmaceuticals, medtech and consumer health, exploring new models to support external R&D collaboration and grow early-stage innovation networks.

Nerida has been an integral part of the J&J Innovation team since 2015, and before that, she was in the UK Biotech sector for 15 years as Director for Business Development & Licensing and Executive Team member at Vernalis PLC and at RiboTargets. Previously she was in the UK Healthcare team at the Boston Consulting Group.

Nerida is a BIA board member and represents innovation on the UK government’s Life Sciences Council.

About the Founders Growth Community

The Founders Growth Community (FGC) has been created to support pre-series A life science/biotech founders and leaders. The group helps to accelerate the funding process with workshops and networking and an online community to share resources and advice.

The initiative came from an idea at the Milner Therapeutics Institute, who then formed a coalition of like-minded accelerators and incubators to turn the idea into reality. The other leading partners are Babraham Research Campus, o2h, and Illumina Venture Labs.

The FGC Community is kindly sponsored by Venner Shipley and InterSTEM.