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|Podcasts|October 25, 2018

Episode 19: How a CEO Pivots Their Company and Career

Christen and Michelle talk with Mei Mei Hu, CEO of United Neuroscience about how being open to pivoting from your original plan can create a number of opportunities for an executive and their company, as well as how her executive team successfully manages a remote workforce spread across three continents. In a hilarious conversation about balancing professional and personal life, Hu also talks about how she ended up leading a spinout of her family’s life sciences business after a career in consulting, despite vowing to never be a part of the biotech world.

Christen and Michelle talk with Mei Mei Hu, CEO of United Neuroscience about how being open to pivoting from your original plan can create a number of opportunities for an executive and their company, as well as how her executive team successfully manages a remote workforce spread across three continents. In a hilarious conversation about balancing professional and personal life, Hu also talks about how she ended up leading a spinout of her family’s life sciences business after a career in consulting, despite vowing to never be a part of the biotech world.

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