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Managing Technical Innovation and Launching New BIO IT Products
Johns Hopkins University - Montgomery County Campus
Speakers
Capers W. McDonald
Executive in Residence
Graduate Division of Business and Management
Johns Hopkins University
 Capers McDonald is an Executive in Residence and a faculty member of Johns Hopkins University in the Graduate Division of Business and Management. He serves as co-leader of the division's entrepreneurship initiatives, teaches in the joint Graduate Certificate in Technical Innovation and New Ventures with the Whiting School of Engineering, and actively supports various technology-based ventures in the U.S. and Scotland.
From 1992 into 2004, Capers led BioReliance Corporation as its President and CEO. Headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, BioReliance is an innovative contract service organization (CSO) annually providing testing, development and manufacturing services worldwide to more than 700 client companies in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. When Capers joined BioReliance in 1992, the operation was very small, unprofitable and unfocused. Five years later, following significant improvements and a successful IPO, BioReliance exhibited a 10-fold increase in valuation. During 2003, BioReliance was ranked #1 nationally by Forbes in earnings per share growth among "200 Entrepreneurial Hot Shots" and ranked #11 by Fortune Small Business among "The FSB 100, America's Fastest-Growing Small Companies." That year, BioReliance received an American Business Awards "Stevie" for investor communications.
From 2001 into 2004, Capers served three terms as Chair of the Technology Council of Maryland. He is a founder and past Chair of the Maryland Bioscience Alliance, a cooperative business association of over 100 companies from throughout the region. During 2003, Capers served on the Maryland Governor's Commission on Development of Advanced Technology Business and, in 2004, he served on the State Planning Committee for Postsecondary Education of the Maryland Higher Education Commission. Capers was named the 2002 Greater Washington Entrepreneur Of The Year in the Life Sciences by Ernst & Young. He has been recognized as one of the region's "Ten Most Admired Bosses" by Techway magazine, awarded the "Leadership in Technology Award" by the Technology Council of Maryland, named a national Distinguished Eagle Scout, and included among Who's Who In Science and Engineering and Who's Who in the World.
Capers earned an MBA from Harvard Business School (1983), a Masters degree in engineering from MIT (1976), and a Bachelors degree in engineering from Duke University (1974), where he serves as Chair of the Student Affairs Committee of the Board of Visitors to the Pratt School of Engineering and was named the School's Distinguished Alumnus for 2005.
Raymond A. Miller
Partner, Pepper Hamilton LLP
Pittsburgh Office  Mr. Miller leads Pepper's patent practice and is also a key element of its life science practice. He has spent his career identifying, protecting, securing and maximizing intellectual property in the biotechnology and life science areas. His clients range from academic institutions to world-class medical and research facilities and they include physicians, venture capital groups, start-up biotechnology companies, Fortune 500 companies and the world's leading nutritional supplement company. Mr. Miller is particularly experienced in the areas of chemistry, medicinal chemistry, genetics, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, proteonomics, nanotechnology, tissue engineering, surface chemistry and cosmetics. This experience, along with Mr. Miller's exposure to the medical fields of cardiology, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, orthopedics and tissue engineering, allow him to appreciate issues critical to Pepper's biotechnology and life science clients.
Mr. Miller's practice focuses on patent prosecution, corporate transactions involving intellectual property and strategic intellectual property counseling. He has prepared, prosecuted, and litigated well over 100 patents. All of these were handled with the clients' strategic and corporate goals in mind.
Mr. Miller received his B.S. in 1988 from the University of Akron, his M.A. in 1990 from Princeton University, and his J.D. in 1994 from Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He is is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the state and federal courts of Ohio and Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Mr Miller is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association of University Technology Managers, Inc., and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in academic and scientific journals.
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