Ray Mckee

Dr. Ray McKee focuses on issues confronting stakeholders at the interface of commercial, academic, and institutional research and development. With 30 years of experience as an executive and business development strategist in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and diagnostics industries, he concentrates on identifying and optimizing pathways to advance meaningful projects and product candidates in bioscience and medicine toward commercialization.

In both large and small companies, Dr. McKee has held executive positions with various functional responsibilities including R&D, business and corporate development, and investor relations. In these roles, he has shepherded both regulated and non-regulated products from research through the market introduction and has led the financing, investment, and corporate development initiatives throughout his career. Capitalizing on his early exposure to the business of science as a research scientist and project manager at Abbott Laboratories, he has applied those early lessons to fostering better collaboration between scientific and business-oriented groups. At Ventrex Laboratories he led the creation of one of the first health care sector R&D limited partnerships, and at Allied Instrumentation Laboratories he undertook building strategy, infrastructure, and staff for a new diagnostics R&D organization. At Lifecodes Corporation, he led the creation of a product-based business in a heretofore research-oriented enterprise by building a new operational unit that developed, manufactured, and marketed the first DNA identity test kit, a key step in moving the disruptive technology into the mainstream of law enforcement.