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Karen Spilizewski, Vice President Karen Spilizewski joined RiverVest in January 2008 as a vice president. Ms. Spilizewski is also a Director of Business Development with a focus on medical devices and equipment at BioEnterprise, a Cleveland-based business formation, recruitment, and acceleration effort designed to support the growth of bioscience companies in Ohio. She divides her time between BioEnterprise and RiverVest and is located in RiverVest’s Cleveland office in the BioEnterprise facilities. Ms. Spilizewski has nearly 20 years of experience in new product development and business development in medical and non-medical technologies. She joined BioEnterprise in 2005, where she identifies, assesses, and plays a key role in accelerating the emergence of medical device companies that originate from universities, clinical research, local entrepreneurs, or companies relocating to the Cleveland area. Prior to joining BioEnterprise, Ms. Spilizewski gained significant medical device industry experience at Avery Dennison, particularly in research and business development. She has a broad knowledge of the seed and early-stage life science opportunity landscape in Ohio and Western Pennsylvania and the ability to source and evaluate the most promising deals. Ms. Spilizewski received her MBA at Case Western Reserve’s Weatherhead School of Management and both an M.S. in Macromolecular Science and a B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University. Karen Spilizewski |
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