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Industry Leaders Program
Speaker: Peter Kash - Co-Founder & Senior Managing Director, Paramount Capital
Peter Morgan Kash is co-founder and senior managing director of Paramount BioCapital, Inc. Having traveled to more than fifty countries, he has co-raised $500 million in private equity financing for more than twenty biopharmaceutical companies. He has also served on the board of directors of several privately held and publicly traded biotechnology companies and currently serves as vice chairman of the Board of Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:KERX) and Innovative Drug Delivery Systems.
Mr. Kash has worked with several Wall Street houses, including Shearson Lehman Hutton, and from 1990-1992 served as an Associate Professor of Marketing at Polytechnic University. He was a television host for FNN's business program "International Spotlight" and has served as an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and International Venture Capital at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania from 1996-2000. Mr. Kash was Entrepreneur in Residence at Pace University in Spring 2001 and at Ball State University in May 2002. He served as a Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Graduate School of Business at Nihon University in Tokyo. Currently, he is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Sy Syms School of Business. Mr. Kash has completed post-graduate studies at Harvard Business School on how to make not-for-profit and profit board of directors more effective.
Mr. Kash earned his B.S. in Management Science from SUNY Binghamton and his M.B.A. in Banking and International Finance from Pace University. He is currently earning his Doctorate in Education at Yeshiva University in New York. He serves on the Board of Keren-Or, a charity for blind and multi-handicapped children in Jerusalem and served in the IDF.
Mr. Kash's presentation touched on the following issues:
- From failure to success – How personal failures can be leveraged to success
- The web of life – What Israelis sometime miss by downgrading personal networking
- Recognizing and seizing opportunities – the stories of Neose and Keryx
- Making a deal in the global business environment
Peter Kash, Co-Founder & Senior Managing Director, Paramount Capital, presents success stories.
Peter Kash signing his book for the IBF members. Profits from the books are been donated to Natal organization in Israel.
