In today's episode, Dr. Anthony Japour interview Blaine Cheshire, Founder & President of Level10 CFO. As a fractional CFO and business advisor, Blaine helps businesses to assess, improve, and maximize the benefit of their financial planning, management, and reporting systems and relationships. Drawing on 20+ years of experience, he acts as a true partner to CEOs and other business leaders through all stages of a company’s life cycle, from formation, setup, and capital raising through to launch, growth, M&A activity, and even exit. Fractional CFO services like those of Level10 CFO are changing the financial landscape for startups looking to grow and manage their finances without onboarding a full-time manager. 

In today's episode, Dr. Anthony Japour interviews guest Matt Taylor, the CEO of Darkside Enterprises, a premiere IT consultant firm. Celebrating the recent partnership with BlackFog to provide next-level enterprise security solutions, Matt has taken some time to share the secrets of IT that any startup founder or CEO in biotech should know. Some may recognize him from his chapter in "Adapt and Overcome: What Business Owners Need to Do to Keep Employees, Clients and Infrastructure Safe During a Time of Crisis." For anyone interested in reaching out to Matt, you can find the contact form for Darkside Enterprises here, and his LinkedIn here.

In this episode, Dr. Anthony Japour interviews Joshua Schiffman, MD, CEO and Founder of PEEL Therapeutics, an emerging disruptor in the biotech space delivering evolution-inspired medicine to patients. Dr. Schiffman also co-founded ItRunsInMyFamily.com, an online family history collection tool. Dr. Schiffman is a Professor of Pediatrics and Investigator at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah and the Medical Director for the Family Cancer Assessment Clinic. He also works as a Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. Dr. Schiffman graduated from the Brown University School of Medicine in 2000, followed by clinical training in Pediatrics and Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at Stanford University from 2000-2008. His academic research and now commercial efforts focus on genomic development of cancer in children and studying animals that naturally are protected from cancer, like elephants. Dr. Schiffman has co-founded several exciting new startup companies to impact cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

In this episode, Dr. Anthony Japour interviews Joshua Schiffman, MD, CEO and Founder of PEEL Therapeutics, an emerging disruptor in the biotech space delivering evolution-inspired medicine to patients. Dr. Schiffman also co-founded ItRunsInMyFamily.com, an online family history collection tool. Dr. Schiffman is a Professor of Pediatrics and Investigator at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah and the Medical Director for the Family Cancer Assessment Clinic. He also works as a Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. Dr. Schiffman graduated from the Brown University School of Medicine in 2000, followed by clinical training in Pediatrics and Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at Stanford University from 2000-2008. His academic research and now commercial efforts focus on genomic development of cancer in children and studying animals that naturally are protected from cancer, like elephants. Dr. Schiffman has co-founded several exciting new startup companies to impact cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

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