Akshita Vincent, a University of Toronto (U of T) alumna, comes with 6+ years of business development and commercialization experience. Over the years, Akshita has been responsible for various Business Development activities such as matchmaking and liaising with biotech/pharmaceutical and venture capital companies and researchers in the therapeutics, diagnostics, biomedical devices, and digital healthcare space.
She has also supported U of T’s Innovations teams on their commercialization and entrepreneurship activities, such as development of commercialization strategies (licensing vs start-up creation) and roadmaps for technology portfolio by conducting intellectual property and markets assessments on inventions from the biomedical and life sciences field; assessing value proposition; analyzing the competitive landscape; identifying challenges/barriers to market, market drivers/constraints; commercial considerations (e.g. market segments and channels to reach them); and provide recommendations for technology development.