About Mount Hope

Mike Yelle, Mt Hope Founder

After nearly 40 years working in the life science tools space Mike founded Mount Hope to help small companies scale their business and large companies succeed through profitable adjacencies.  With deep experience in developing strategy, managing product development, operations and commercialization, Mount Hope can help build your strategy with a clear focus on execution.

Strategy Development

Built and executed strategy for large global consumables business in life science tools market.

  • Creation of new strategic plan for business that focused on high growth segments in biopharmaceuticals while maintaining leading position in small molecule drugs leading to market share gain and double digit growth.
  • Brought to market breakthrough product for the analysis of protein aggregates and glycosylation (Glycoworks).
  • Maintained strong operating profit in highly competitive space through technical differentiation, industry standard quality and service.
  • Implemented R&D portfolio process allocating resource according a risk model for project selection.
  • Developed KPI dashboard to track business performance.

M&A

Led sell process for life science tool company.

  • Created data room
  • Key contact for due diligence
  • Partner in developing integration strategy

 

Management of two  acquired technology companies.

  • Developed integration strategy
  • Developed business strategy
  • Leveraged acquired capabilities to expand Waters consumables business 
  • Managed R&D, operations and distribution

Building a Start-up

Led development of startup process chromatography business for biopharmaceuticals

  • Developed strategy
  • Business plan
  • Capital investment plan
  • Product plan
  • Global organizational plan
  • Manufacturing strategy
  • Established beachhead position in a very conservative, competitive space.
  • Managed business development directly with key multinational biopharmaceutical accounts resulting in POROS being used in validated manufacturing processes leading to long term revenue annuities.

Corporate Venturing

Creation Of Clinical LC/MS Business Unit

  • Creation of business plan proposal for Clinical MS business
  • Market analysis
  • Target segment opportunity
  • Strategy
  • Investment plan
  • Organizational plan
  • Global distribution and support
  • Development plan
  • Collaboration to develop neonatal screening market
  • Built global organization.
  • Successfully established leadership position in growing market
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