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Joan Koerber-Walker Named CEO of the Arizona BioIndustry Association

Date:
3/23/2011

Contact: 
Christine McAuliffe, Chairman of the Board
cmcauliffe@polsinelli.com | (602) 650-2061
Joan Koerber-Walker, President and CEO
JKW@AZBio.org | (480) 332-9636
Arizona BioIndustry Association
SkySong
1475 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite 200
Scottsdale, AZ 85257
480.884.1575 | www.azbio.org

Catalyst for Growth – AZ Bio moves forward with new CEO and an aggressive agenda

Joan Koerber-Walker announced as CEO of the Arizona BioIndustry Association
 

Scottsdale Arizona

March 23, 2011

Joan Koerber-Walker

The Arizona BioIndustry Association, the unified voice of Arizona’s growing bioscience industry, today announced the hiring of Joan Koerber-Walker who joins the state-wide organization as President and CEO of AZBio effective immediately. “As its new leader, Joan Koerber-Walker brings a fresh perspective, leadership and the experience needed to move our organization forward faster” shared Christine McAuliffe, AZBio Board Chair and shareholder at Polsinelli and Shughart in Phoenix. “The board was in unanimous agreement that Joan has the right combination of experience, skills and talent needed to support our organization and our members as together we grow.”

With a mission to make Arizona a place where bioscience organizations can grow and succeed, AZBio is comprised of member organizations in business, research and education, economic development, government, and other professions involved in the biosciences. AZBio provides a forum for the bioscience community to join together with a unified voice, educating policy makers and the public, influencing public policy, and advancing the economic interests of individual organizations as well as the sector as a whole. By enabling private sector innovation, collaborating with Arizona’s universities and research institutions, and supporting economic growth throughout the state, AZBio provides the catalyst for growth of Arizona’s bioindustry organizations and through them the opportunity for more high quality job opportunities for Arizonans.

No stranger in Arizona’s leadership community, Koerber-Walker became active in Arizona’s business community in 2002, when she left a successful career as an executive at Avnet, Inc. to found CorePurpose, Inc. where she continues to serve as Chairman. For the past nine years she has been active in the community, working with businesses of all sizes to create focused business strategies and resource networks required to execute successfully. In addition to active participation in her own company and as an Executive in Residence at Callaman Ventures, her leadership experience includes past service as a board member and treasurer for RiboMed Biotechnologies, Inc., two years as CEO of the Arizona Small Business Association, on the Board of Trustees of the NSBA in Washington D.C., Chairman of the Advisory Board to Parenting Arizona, the state’s largest parent education and child abuse prevention organization, service on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Technology Council and as Chairman of the Opportunity Through Entrepreneurship Foundation – the host organization for the Arizona Entrepreneurship Conferences which connect Arizona’s entrepreneurial and investor communities with each other and with nationally recognized thought leaders.

“We welcome Joan’s energy and leadership to AZBio” Nina Ossanna, Ph.D., Director, Business Development at the BIO5 Institute, immediate past Chair of AZBio and Chair of the Search Committee, “With her leadership, we look forward to expanding AZBio’s programs that support our member organizations to grow and thrive here in Arizona.”

“Throughout my career, I have been lucky enough to have the opportunity to work with great people and great organizations to achieve goals that others might have thought were difficult or even impossible. Together with the team at AZBio – our employees, our members, and our community partners - we can accelerate the growth of Arizona’s biosciences community and our overall economy.” Koerber-Walker stated. “Opportunity begins with conversations and builds with action. That’s why I am looking forward to asking our biosciences community what they need to get the job done and with their help and support using AZBio as a catalyst to help them make things happen.”

“Our search committee was fortunate in having excellent, well-qualified candidates and finding Joan in that mix,” shared Jack Dean, PhD, Special Advisor, sanofi-aventis and an AZBio Board Member who was instrumental in the search and selection process. “Joan brings to us great experience working with large and small business throughout our state and a passion for success. I anticipate that Joan will re-energize Arizona’s bioindustry and help create a culture that allows us to be recognized for our contribution to biotechnology and translational medicine.”

AZBio will be hosting a number of great events where members of the community can connect, join the conversation and engage including the AZBio Expo, May 6, 2011 at the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass. To learn more visit www.AZBio.org.

REVOLUTION with Brian Solis: Season 2 - March 11

Support Local Business - Get Ideas & Help to Grow Yours!

Here is a great way to promote your business for a very low cost! If you're not a business owner… please forward this to your friends who could benefit.

The YOB Fair (Your Own Business Fair) is taking place on March 18th from 8:00am to 4:00pm. Last year this event attracted 1,000 people and this year we are expecting even higher numbers!

This, all-day, FREE event will have tables for vendors, educational forums on current topics, round tables for in-depth discussion and time for networking. This event is being collaboratively put together by the Arizona Commerce Authority, the City of Phoenix, Greater Phoenix SCORE, ASBA, Data Doctors, Franchise Resource Company, Growth Nation, Mojo Video Marketing, NetworkingPhoenix.com, Pivot Productions, Inc., Three Dog Marketing, Urman Enterprises, SBA and SBDC.

Table prices:

• Vendor Exhibition Space: $250 
• Exhibition space with 1/2 day Roundtble: $350
• Exhibition space with full day Roundtble: $450
• Round table only for 1/2 day: $200  full day: $300.

To register or to purchase Exhibition Space, please visit www.scorephoenix.org. For Roundtable Space or further information, call 602-745-7250 (Monday - Friday from 9:00am to 1:00pm) or email Maryanne@gustare.com.

REGISTER HERE!

 



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The Arizona Education Commitment: Phil Francis

Ethics and Collaboration: Is Fear Killing Your Collaborative Opportunities?

A subject that seems to puzzle the masses, but plays such a significant role in the integrity of business overall, and life in general, for that matter. David Kramer says it well in The Lost Art of Ethics and Collaboration: Where Did We Go Wrong? (2004), “In spite of clear and convincing evidence that ethical behavior and collaboration generate better results than dishonest and adversarial negotiations, these best practices are rare in the world of human interaction.” In a world that becomes ever more social on a daily basis, the practice of ethical behavior becomes increasingly important.

So what constitutes ethical behavior? (specifically in terms of business and collaboration). This is an issue that has been at the forefront of my mind recently, especially with the movement of business to social media, and sharing of contacts across various different mediums. It is extremely easy for competitors to see exactly who you are meeting with, connected to, and currently in negotiations with. I’ve spent the majority of my 28-year career working in the nonprofit sector, where ethics and collaboration are key elements in nonprofit effectiveness; so I understand the subject well. However, in the “dog” eat “dog” world of business, the term takes on a whole new meaning.

In my business, I have various collaborative partners. These are companies that provide specific services that my clients want, but that I do not currently provide in-house. I can choose to hire in-house expertise to provide these services, or work with a company that provides such services within a collaborative framework. This happens in business all the time, yet the key to a long-term positive working relationship with the collaborative partner often falls on ethics; something few companies truly understand. For example, if I’m working with a collaborative partner and I introduce that partner to a client or potential client. Is it ethical for that partner to then contact my client directly, share pricing information with my client, or vice-versa? If that collaborative partner offers services that are in direct competition with services that I provide, is it ethical for them to offer those services directly to my client? These questions and the answers seem logical enough for most; yet, this line gets crossed often.

In a conversation recently with a potential collaborative partner, I faced the challenge of explaining this exact dilemma. The potential partner is a young entrepreneur who offers a range of very specific services that I would like to offer my clients, along with other services that may or may not be in direct competition with services that I offer. I have considered working with this particular company, based on a recommendation from a much respected mutual associate, and my own instinctive desire to help others.

Is this a service that I could easily perform or provide myself? Yes, however; I believe we are given opportunities to help others through our knowledge and I’m a firm believer that we all have a responsibility to give back to the community that supports our endeavors. I met with this potential collaborative partner on two different occasions. Upon the second meeting, the partner was briefly exposed to a friend and potential client. Within a week or so, the partner made direct contact with the other company and asked for a meeting. In my mind, this is a direct conflict to my idea of ethical behavior from a collaborative partner. I immediately called the dilemma to the attention of the potential partner.

This brought another question to light. So how do you know who is “off limits”? In my mind, if a collaborative partner is meeting with or appears to be in negotiations with a company, then I consider that company “off limits”. I would not approach the company or try to solicit their work. If I had any question, whatsoever, as to whether or not the collaborative partner was working with the company I would contact the partner directly. Whether or not a contractual engagement is in place, is of no consequence to me. This strikes a visual in my mind: I would no more try to solicit the work of a collaborative partner’s client or potential client, than I would reach out and grab hold of them physically as they stood next to the collaborative partner, and try to pull the client away from them. I believe the ethics of each scenario to be the same.

Ethical dilemmas are not simply “right” or “wrong” answers; but are often ambiguous. I found six basic moral principles based on the Ethical Decision Making Model (Cooper, 1998), that I believe can be applied to most situations:

• Autonomy: to promote self-determination, or the freedom of clients/collaborative partners to choose their own direction;
• Nonmaleficence: to avoid doing harm, which includes refraining from actions that risk hurting clients/collaborative partners;
• Beneficence: to promote good for others;
• Justice: to provide equal treatment to all people;
• Fidelity: to make honest promises and honor their commitments to those they serve;
• Veracity: truthfulness;

A few additional things to consider when evaluating ethical business practices as they relate specifically to Marketing and/or Social Media, based on the work of Laczniak (1983) are:

• Does the practice violate the law?
• Does the practice go against the moral duty to honesty and exactitude?
• To gratitude?
• To justice?
• To not place the health and safety of others in danger?
• Is the intention of the practice bad?
• Could the practice generate harmful or negative consequences?
• Did the company consciously reject a practice which would have engendered the same advantages while at the same time generating fewer harmful or negative consequences?

It is the fear of unethical business practices that kill most collaborative opportunities before they even get started. I understand that it is a very competitive marketplace out there. However, if we can find ways to collaborate with one another, share best practices and follow a basic code of ethical behavior, I believe the potential for what we can accomplish together is limitless. I highly recommend reading “The Lost Art of Ethics and Collaboration: Where Did We Go Wrong?” by David Kramer of the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College (2004), for more on information on Ethics and Collaboration.