James J. Sarene has over 30 years’ experience in the Life Sciences working with companies from emerging biotech to large pharmaceuticals. With special expertise in Business Development, M&A and Licensing, Mr. Sarene was Managing Director at Madison Keats, a boutique Charlotte based transactional firm, where he focused on providing clients with strategic partnerships enabling growth opportunities. Mr. Sarene also led North American activity as Sr. Director, Business Development for the Indian based clinical research organization CliniRx Research. While at i3 Statprobe, he managed the relationships for Wyeth, Schering-Plough, and GSK along with many smaller biotech and pharmaceutical clients. As an independent consultant in the Life Sciences, Mr. Sarene established relationships for such companies as Lorus Therapeutics, Ockham Development, Maaguzi, eClipse, ERA Clinical, Biovator, OrtoWay, SpringFire Laboratory Network, and between Pheromone & Healthwatch Systems that successfully launched the product OV Watch to the market. Mr. Sarene has a B.A. in Psychology from Youngstown State University.