Kurt Kessler

Experience

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  Price Waterhouse Management Consultants

  Jan 1988 - Jan 1991

  Manager

  International professional advisory firm. Appointed to the Management Science & Economics Practice in Washington DC as Senior Consultant, subsequently promoted to Manager. In more than 75 successful engagements, scoped, proposed, sold, led, and presented recommendations to clients including the Internal Revenue Service, and for a $24m project and relationship with US Postal Service that continues today.

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  Migliara/Kaplan Associates

  Jan 1991 - Jan 1999

  • Senior Vice President/Vice President, Multivariate Services

    Jan 1996 - Jan 1999

  • Senior Project Director/Director, Multivariate Services

    Jan 1991 - Jan 1996
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  Migliara/Kaplan Associates

  Jun 1999 - Jun 2000

  COO and Executive Vice President

  Promoted with responsibility for Information Technology Services, Field Department, Tabulation Services, Quantitative Services, Multivariate Services, Document Production and other operational activities across the firm.

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  InfoScriber

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2001

  President

  Subsidiary of PMR Corporation, a publicly traded provider of psychiatric management resources. Appointed to create and lead the launch of new data-based services to pharmaceutical marketers founded on point-of-care electronic prescribing. Virtual team and office base; company HQ in San Diego, USA.

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  ZS Associates

  Sept 2001 - Dec 2019

  Managing Principal, Marketing Business Area

  Invited to join what was then a ~300 person firm providing only Sales consulting services primarily to pharmaceutical clients. Based in Princeton, USA and latterly Zurich, Switzerland.Joined ZS as a Principal to create and lead the Marketing Business Area; subsequently appointed as Member of the Management Advisory Committee in 2009 and elected to the Board of Directors in 2013.Established and grew the Marketing Business Area and proposition from scratch to become the majority of the firm’s business and representing a major point of difference and significant intellectual capital for the firm. Show less

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  Kessler Advisory Services, GmbH

  Jan 2020 - now

  Sole Proprieter

  Advisor to Life Sciences companies to achieve commercial success based on 30 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. Current assignments:--Advisory Group member for Ancora.ai--Advisor to Qoolo, Inc.--Advisor and coach to a wide range of Principals and projects at ZSPrior assignments:--CEO, InterAx Biotech AG - lead this startup with a unique discovery capability to the next stage of growth.