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9:00 am – 9:30 am 3/26/2015  Welcome Remarks & MassBio Board Elections @ MassBio Annual Meeting 2015, Cambridge, MA, Sonesta Hotel, 3/26 – 3/27, 2015

Reporter: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN

 

Dr. Aviva Lev-Ari will be in attendance on March 26, 2015, 8:00AM to March 27, 2015, 2:00PM

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Robert K Coughlin, President & CEO, MassBio

30 years ago six Gentlemen signed the Incorporation the World Trade Association: Bio Tech now MassBio — 1985 !! was launched. Microsoft released its first OS. Genetic Engineering new industry was launched Trade Association was perceived to help, AIDS was on the rise drugs not yet known: MBC was born.

MA is home to 600,000 Biotech employee, new treatment and cure Here in Mass are invented.

 

Glen Batchelder, Founder & Board Member, Civitas Therapeutics, Chairman, MassBio Board of Directors

Elections to be held NOW – Motion for Board of Directors

Motion approved New members of the Board: from Amgen, Foundation Medicine, Baxter BioScience

 

Jay Ash, Secretary of Housing and Economic Development,  Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Jay Ash serves as the Secretary of Housing and Economic Development for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Secretary Ash is responsible for directing and executing Governor Charlie Baker’s agenda on housing and community development, job creation, business development, consumer affairs, and business regulation. He previously served as the city manager in his native Chelsea, a position he held from 2000 to 2014. In Chelsea, Secretary Ash’s leadership produced both economic expansion and fiscal stability. He grew the city’s housing stock by over ten percent, expanded its commercial base with two dozen major projects, led all Gateway Cities with a 15% increase in new employment, developed 10 new parks, secured five credit rating increases, and won two All-America City designations for Chelsea. Secretary Ash has led statewide initiatives on health insurance, youth violence, transportation infrastructure and expanded gaming in Massachusetts. He previously served as co-founder and vice-chair of the Metropolitan Mayors Coalition, as past president of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, as a board member of the public policy think tank MassINC, the staff director to the Massachusetts House Majority Leader, and as an elected trustee of his alma mater, Clark University.

LIVE Presentation by Jay Ash

Chelsea has Biotech establishments, outside of Cambridge. We try to attract more to Chelsea.

The role of a facilitator for economic development for the State of MA:

• Help communities to prepare for success – Chelsea will had a new Office for the FBI a development project of Chelsea land.
• Future of economic development requires Work Force Development: Labor & Education
• Taxation, regulatory reform, competitiveness
• Higher Education, UMass and Private Universities: MIT,  Harvard, WPI –
• Housing and economic development — more development, more affordable
• Business – High growth sectors — Biotech, Life Sciences – contribution to the World, power on the economy and contribution to Health. Emerging industries and sectors
• MGH is building HealthCare facility in Springfield, MA

MassBio promotes Life Sciences very well and economic development