NATHALIE GOSSET

Head of Marketing and BusinessDevelopment, Alfred Mann Institute at USC

Nathalie Gosset is Head of Business Development and Marketing at the Alfred Mann Institute at the University of Southern California.  She created and implemented this new function at AMI after leading the Engineering Department at the Institute for several years. The Alfred Mann Institute is a non-profit acceleration and incubation center for commercialization of biomedical inventions from USC. Ms. Gosset has over 20 years experience in the development and commercialization of technology-based products. At AMI, she is responsible for establishing the value of each innovation and for developing product specific strategic business plans for each one of the new inventions incubated by AMI. In addition, Ms. Gosset manages two AMI programs (cardiology and pediatric solutions). In 2007, she took one of them to full commercialization with nationwide mass market distribution. Ms. Gosset has a strong engineering background gained from 15 years of engineering leadership. She headed engineering departments for several years and more recently, she specialized in the turnaround of startup companies with special focus on engineering team leadership (VP of Engineering at Sabeus, Director of Engineering at Novera).  She worked for large companies (Alcatel and ADC Telecom) and at Alcatel after ten years in optical design engineering (expertise in optical amplifiers and 10 Gbps long distance networks) she became Director of the Program Management Office overseeing the activities of about 600 engineers. She received an Outstanding Achiever Award and five Quality Cups (a prestigious recognition at Alcatel) for innovative leadership. Ms. Gosset is a member of several medical advisory and director boards and sits on several biomedical review boards for venture firms. She is the North America representative for the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineering - Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE-EMBS), an international organization promoting bioengineering education worldwide. She has received three prestigious IEEE awards: - 2007: Career Service award for creating more than 50 chapters worldwide to stimulate innovation between doctors and engineers. - 2005: IEEE-RAB Leadership award for her contributions to the biomedical community. 2005: Outstanding IEEE-EMBS Chapter Award, a global recognition. Ms. Gosset also supports several charitable organizations where her volunteer work focuses on strategic planning and fundraising strategy. In 2006, she increased the funds to one of her charitable organizations, by a factor of 5 . Nathalie holds a BSEE from ISEP (Paris, France); MS in Telecommunications (Boulder, CO); MBA (University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN).