Technology Startup Company
Sponsor: Fox Rothschild
Criteria: Company must have operating results of three years or
less.
Key Considerations: Product or service innovation including market
need or assessment and potential for significant growth; the management team and
its ability and record of achieving success; and a demonstration of success such
as significant milestones, raising capital, and revenue.
2009 Finalists:
- CoreDial
- Human Network Labs
- SevOne
Life Sciences Startup Company
Sponsor: University of Sciences in Philadelphia
Criteria: Company must have operating results of three years or
less.
Key Considerations: Product or service innovation including market
need or assessment and potential for significant growth; the management team and
its ability and record of achieving success; a demonstration of success such as
significant milestones, raising capital, and revenue; and the R&D investment strategy.
2009 Finalists:
- Healthy Humans
- MBF Therapeutics
- Real Time Tomography
Emerging Technology Company
Sponsor: Morgan Lewis Bockius
Criteria: Company must have at least four years of operating results.
Revenues must be less than $50 million, except in the most recent fiscal year.
Key Considerations: Product or service innovation, including proprietary
technology or other advantage; company milestones including strategic decisions
made by management that led to growth in revenues and/or earnings; strength of management
team including ability to raise capital; and profitability or demonstrated ability
to achieve profitability such as strategy to achieve break even and the ability
to realize high gross margins.
2009 Finalists:
- EvolveIP
- IPipeline
- Portico Systems
Emerging Life Sciences Company
Sponsor: Fish & Richardson PC
Criteria: Company must have at least four years of operating results.
Revenues must be less than $50 million, except in the most recent fiscal year.
Key Considerations: Product or service innovation, including proprietary
applications or other advantage; company milestones including strategic decisions
made by management that led to growth in revenues and/or earnings; strength of management
team including ability to raise capital; and profitability or demonstrated ability
to achieve profitability such as strategy to achieve break even and the ability
to realize high gross margins.
2009 Finalists:
- BioNanomatrix
- PuriCore
- Topaz Pharmaceuticals
Technology CEO of the Year
Sponsor: The iSchool at Drexel
Criteria: Individual’s background and his or her company’s success
to date.
Key Considerations: CEO’s management accomplishments and philosophy,
including the communication of a vision and goals as achieved by the company; leadership
and impact in the industry and/or market; ability to attract and retain talented
resources; company milestones including financial accomplishments and a strategy
for continued company success; and community and industry involvement.
2009 Finalists:
- Richard Milgram, Beyond.com
- Matt Reichert, Health Market Science
- Jeffrey Westphal, Vertex
Life Sciences CEO of the Year
Sponsor: Cephalon
Criteria: Individual’s background and his or her company’s success
to date.
Key Considerations: CEO’s management accomplishments and philosophy,
including the communication of a vision and goals as achieved by the company; leadership
and impact in the industry and/or market; ability to attract and retain talented
resources; company milestones including financial accomplishments and a strategy
for continued company success; and community and industry involvement.
2009 Finalists:
- Michael Cardillo, Health Advocate
- Jane Hollingsworth, Nupathe
- Stephen Tullman, Ception Therapeutics
Technology Company of the Year
Sponsor: Safeguard Scientifics
Criteria: Company with more than $50 million in revenues in the
most recently completed fiscal year.
Key Considerations: Leadership and product and/or service innovation
in an industry or market; significant company milestones including financial accomplishments;
and community and industry involvement.
2009 Finalists:
- BioClinica
- Octagon Research Solutions
- UniTek
Life Sciences Company of the Year
Sponsor: PECO
Criteria: Company with at least three years of operating results
in industry segments such as specialty pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical device/instrumentation,
etc.
Key Considerations: A proprietary product or research and development
of a product and its potential impact on the market; the ability to raise capital,
generate revenue, and commercialize and strategize to enter into substantive strategic
alliance; and the company’s development strategy and clinical pathway to development.
2009 Finalists:
- Eurand Pharmaceuticals
- Fujirebio Diagnostics
- HTH Worldwide
Companies To Watch
Sponsor: University City Science Center
2009 Finalists:
- Cogniscape
- Core Solutions
- emortal.com
- Finite Carbon
- Innova Materials
- Y-Carbon