Arlen D Meyers, MD, MBAUniversity of Colorado School of Medicine

Founding President and CEO, www.sopenet.org

•Rising health care costs•Access•Quality•Stressed innovation pipeline•Disenfranchized and disempowered physicians•Globalization •Lack of bioentrepreneurship knowledge, skills and abilities•Lack of early stage money•Lack of opportunities to get experience

Entrepreneurship (HBS): The pursuit of opportunity using resources beyond those you currently control.

Biomedical Entrepreneurship (Meyers): The process of creating customer/patient defined value by deploying biomedical and health innovation.

EducationExperienceConnections/MentorsCash

The Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (www.s0penet.org) is a NFP global biomedical and health innovation network . Members include healthcare entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, and industry representatives

The mission of SoPE is to help biomedical and healthcare entrepreneurs get their ideas, discoveries and inventions to patients by providing them with education , connections to service providers and investors and offering value added products and services.

Sope U is an online learning platformSoPE Chapters offer monthly educational and network eventsPartnerships with others offering meetings, seminars, etcSoPE Summit Collaborations with International Business Schools CU Program in Bioinnovation and Entrepreneurship

Working with local technology transfer offices or industrySoPE Innovation Scholars ProgramAcclerators like HealthStartZ in Denver

5100 people on linkedin groupExtensive social media networSoPE NewsletterSoPE Website at www.sopenet.org Monthly Chapter meetings (over 20 around the world)

Connections to early stage investorsCollaborations with TIE Rockies, National Association of Seed and Venture Funds, Rockies Venture Club, and other international angel networksCrowd funding intermediary?SoPE Capital Mangement ?

• 9000 global members on linkedin and website• Over 1350 dues paying members ($50/year)• Growing at 300 members/month• International chapter network• Chapter and global industry sponsors

Arlen Meyers, MD, MBAceo@sopenet.net