Paul Upham

Global Head of Smart & Digital Devices at Roche / Genentech.

Rates

30min: $625

Note: rates for large healthcare organizations or financial/consulting firms may vary.

Brief Bio

  • Global Head of Smart Devices @ Roche / Genentech
  • former Worldwide Director of Strategic Marketing @ Becton Dickinson (BD)
  • former Director of Product Marketing @ Welldoc

Some Areas of Expertise

  • Digital health product development and commercialization
  • Medical device product development and commercialization
  • Integrating digital health tools into drug development and commercialization
  • Implementing behavior design to improve digital user experience and engagement
  • Partner / supplier due diligence and selection for digital health solutions

Extended Bio

Paul is the Global Head of Smart & Digital Devices at Roche / Genentech; and has 20+ years of experience in medical device R&D, strategic marketing, product management, clinical research, and medical informatics.

Prior to Roche / Genentech, Paul was with Becton Dickinson (BD), as Worldwide Director of Strategic Marketing in their Pharmaceutical Systems business. Paul and his team were responsible for all upstream and downstream marketing strategy for BD’s self-injection business, including pen injectors, autoinjectors, and wearable patch injectors.

Prior to that role, Paul was with WellDoc, Inc. as Director of Product Marketing, where he built and led the marketing team and was responsible for product management activities for WellDoc’s portfolio of mobile health solutions. He was also the Core Team Leader for WellDoc’s landmark BlueStar™ product, a class II medical device and the world’s first reimbursed, prescription-only software for type 2 diabetes.

Paul’s prior experience includes 10 years at BD in the Diabetes Care business. Paul was responsible for the development and launch of the award-winning BD InterActiv® Diabetes Software, and was a member of the joint BD / Medtronic core team that launched ParadigmLink®, the world’s first wireless blood glucose meter.

Paul holds four issued patents in medical software and drug delivery devices and multiple patent applications covering software and medical devices. He is also an author and co-author of numerous peer-reviewed articles in medical informatics and in diabetes. His education background includes undergraduate studies in cognitive science and graduate work in health informatics and finance at the University of Minnesota and New York University.

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