Marcin Szumowski, PhD, has over ten years’ experience in the management of implementation-oriented research projects. He has conceptually developed and/or managed over 40 research, development, special purpose, and investment projects with a total value of approx. 0.25 B EUR. value of 0.25 B EUR. Co-founder of several biotech and medtech companies, he was the CEO of three, including Medicalgorithmics S.A. which is currently listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, and valued at approx. 0.25 B EUR. At Medicalgorithmics he obtained approx. 2.5 M EUR of public funding and private seed capital for the development of the business. From 2008-2009 he supervised the global market introduction of a medical product, which included EU and US (FDA) marketing authorisation. In 2013 Marcin Szumowski was a member of independent expert panels, advising the European Commission in the process of interim evaluation and socio-economic impact assessment of Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) – the world’s largest public-private partnership in the field of pharmacy. He co-authored two reports published by the European Commission and IMI (www.imi.europa.eu). Marcin Szumowski graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC), obtaining MSc and PhD degrees as well as an MBA in international business and finance. Currently he is the CEO of OncoArendi Therapeutics.