Igniting Breakthrough
Technologies in Healthcare
Radcliffe Strategies is a boutique firm offering strategic guidance and business development solutions to the healthcare industry. Our mission is to empower organizations to achieve their full potential by delivering pragmatic and transformative strategies that lead to sustainable growth.
At Radcliffe, we understand that the healthcare landscape is constantly changing, and your ability to rapidly develop, test and launch products and services is vital to success. Our seasoned team has the valuable knowledge and relationships that is only gained through extensive global experience working at all stages of development to innovate and scale breakthrough discoveries.
A Pragmatic Approach to Healthcare Innovation
dynamics, it also stands at the edge of a transformative era.
Are you ready?
Our Work
We combine our global expertise and network with deep local insights to help our clients navigate complex technologies and markets to accelerate growth.
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Clients
“Demonstrated exceptional expertise in building relationships with clients and partners as we entered the North American market. Ability to handle complex negotiations and close deals is unparalleled. Always willing to take the extra step to ensure our business goals were met.
Extensive experience,
connections and a deep understanding of our market gave us impressive results.”
“Helped us to successfully reshape our key messages and marketing presence. Extensive knowledge and understanding of our industry, pragmatic approach, and creativity made their work a delight. Seasoned professionals with invaluable experience. Highly recommend.”
“An invaluable partner. As a recent entrant into the health IT space Peter Adam’s fingerprints are easy to find on our successes. His innate ability to pivot from a tactical view at ground level to a global strategy has given me, as the CEO, critical focus on what really matters, both internally and externally, and let us hit above our weight class time and again.”
“Delivered a strategic marketing plan and US launch strategy that helped the DoubleClick Ad Exchange quickly establish itself as an industry leader, and created substantial value for DoubleClick in its sale to Google.”
Our Team
From his earliest days on the Oxford campus working at the Radcliffe Hospital Peter has built a strong foundation in bioengineering which has fueled his interest in life science technologies throughout his career.
His vast experience encompasses work within both private and publicly traded healthcare organizations and startups at all levels of growth from angel-backed to VC and private equity stage ventures.
With a diverse background in executive leadership and consulting roles, he has led strategy and business development initiatives in a variety of areas including semiconductors to digital health and SaaS-based software and hardware innovations. He has a proven ability to navigate the intricate strategic, operational, regulatory and cultural dynamics needed to elevate companies from market challengers to market leaders in the health tech sector.
Peter's experience includes working as the Semiconductor Practice Lead for the renowned strategy firm Regis McKenna Group in Silicon Valley where he honed his skills in market development and strategy within the technology sector.
As Senior Health IT Advisor at Mars Discovery District in Toronto, Peter specialized in helping start-ups towards success in various areas, including business planning, fundraising, strategic planning, partnerships, brand strategy, and go-to-market implementation.
Peter has also served as a healthcare consultant working across a diverse range of geographies including Canada, United States, United Kingdom and Europe, collaborating with esteemed brands such as Hewlett Packard, Intel, Microchip, McKesson, Motorola and Dixon's Group. His government experience includes work with the NHS (as a mobility board member), and the UK Cabinet Office. In this capacity, redisplayed a thorough understanding of international healthcare markets and the associated regulatory and legal challenges.
Currently, Peter is assisting MEDtech start-ups in Canada, the US, and the UK with international market entry, fundraising (including pitch deck design and pitch coaching), and strategy development. He also serves as the VP of Business Development for Vielight Inc. in Toronto and has provided innovation management strategy advice to Hamilton Health Sciences, where he sits on the research grant evaluation board.
Ron Laurie has worked in Silicon Valley for over forty years, initially as a computer programmer and systems engineer, and then as an intellectual property attorney, he co-founded Inflexion, an intellectual property investment bank engaged in buying, selling and investing in strategic IP assets and IP-intensive businesses.
Prior to launching Inflexion Point, Ron was a founding partner of Skadden Arp's Palo Alto office where he chaired the firm's IP Strategy and Transactions Group for six years. He was also a founding partner of Weil Gotshal’s Silicon Valley office in 1991.
As a registered patent attorney, a substantial part of his law practice involves strategic planning, competitive analysis and commercial exploitation of patents on leading-edge software-based technologies such as encryption biometrics, and Internet telephony.
He has advised clients in the semiconductor, computer, software, communications, media and financial services industries on intellectual property strategy -- a subject which he has taught at Stanford and Boalt (UC-Berkeley) law schools -- with a primary focus on the strategic use of IP assets in complex business transactions including mergers and acquisitions, technology divestitures, joint ventures and strategic alliances. At Skadden, Ron led IP teams in some of the largest technology deals ever done, worth over $50 billion.
Ron wrote the” patent which was the first Internet business method patent to gain national attention when it issued in 1998.
He has also worked as an IP litigator for ten years handling high-visibility patent, copyright, trade secrets and trademark infringement cases in Federal and state courts, including representation of Hewlett Packard in its successful defense of the "look and feel” copyright infringement suit filed by Apple Computer against HP and Microsoft over the Macintosh user interface.
Ron has been an advisor to the U.S. Patent &, the U.S., the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress, the National Research Council, the National
Academy of Science and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency based in Geneva. He is on
the Executive Council of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and is a permanent faculty member of the World Law Institute. He is on the editorial boards
of The Journal of Internet Law and The Computer Lawyer magazines and co-edited a two-volume treatise titled International Intellectual Property.
Peter has worked with breakthrough technologies in sectors as diverse, digital media and information technology. His work has primarily centered on developing strategy and marketing programs for organizations operating in complex markets – with a key focus on technology and business model innovation and product management.
His current venture is Expert File – a software platform, NGO and industry associations to better manage and promote their expertise to key audiences such as the news media. The Expert File GlobalNetwork now lists experts on over 50,000 topics. Expert File clients include Carnegie Mellon University, Christiana Care Health and Emory University. The company has won multiple IABC Industry Awards for Communications Excellence and the Semacode award for “Best Content Marketing Software Solution” in 2018 and 2020.
Prior to Expert File, was the Managing Partner of Riverdale Partners, a boutique technology strategy and marketing firm. Heater founded the technology advisory practice at the Mars Centre in Toronto. Over his 10 years at Mars, he consulted to over 300 companies. His corporate and startup experience includes CMO roles at PlateSpin and FloNetwork (acquired by DoubleClick/Google) Prior to this, he was the founding Director of Media Research at MediaLinx LLP/Sympatico and also held senior product management roles at Bell Canada.
A regular speaker on marketing and strategy, his client work has been recognized through industry awards and featured InMedia such as Inc. Magazine, and Harvard Business Review Online. He graduated with an MBA degree from Queen's University and studied Strategy & Innovation in the Executive Program at thermit Sloan School. He holds British and Canadian citizenship and lives in Toronto with his wife and two children.
Greg is a seasoned leader in platform technology commercialization with over 30 years of experience in technology and intellectual property monetization and investment. He has contributed to the success of a unicorn company and has expertise in investment strategies, funding initiatives, and business development, investment, spin-offs, and M&A.
He has collaborated with over 100 technology companies, mainly focusing on IP, finance, business development, and the monetization of platform technologies. He has also led R&D teams on various commercial technology projects and is adept at acquiring new knowledge and skills in different technologies and industries at a rapid speed.
His specialty is Intellectual Property and technology commercialization. He began as a management consultant, transforming Canada's largest management firm for patents, trademarks, and invention license agreements (CPDL). He developed one of the first fully automated software systems, improved business processes, and established best practices for technology transfer and commercialization.
Greg has been the CEO of Invention Share since 2013, where he leads the monetization of intellectual property through a specialized platform technology monetization model. He uses effective methods and specialized tools to find unique technologies and match them with related market applications, achieving positive financial results.
He has also worked as a Business Advisor for ipCreate Inc., providing large companies with an edge in invention on demand (IP ahead of R&D) and virtual M&A. Greg has recently gained considerable AI expertise and application to generating AI and human curated data sets around business, markets and technology intelligence.
He is the founder and architect behind VisiLeap and uses the framework every day, in one use case to create structured datasets of intelligence on adjacent markets, competition, funding and channels for platform technologies. He has a Bachelor of Commerce from Carleton University.
His network is broad, experienced and of high character and integrity. Throughout his career, Greg has made a lasting impact on the technology sector through his dedication to promoting innovation and supporting technology companies.
