Dave Hutten is an entrepreneur and product leader with 25 years of experience building companies across media, digital health and early-stage innovation. He is currently Entrepreneur in Residence at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center within the Innovation Ventures group, where he works with clinicians and researchers to turn promising technologies into investable, market-ready ventures. Dave has spent his career on both sides of the table. He was employee #1 and ultimately VP of Product at Hugo Health, where he helped raise close to $6 million and scale the company from concept to a 40-person team serving Mayo Clinic, Yale, the FDA, Medtronic and Johnson & Johnson. He founded and led Sequel Media, a medical content production company, and later served as an executive in residence at CincyTech, working inside a venture fund to support Cincinnati Children's spinouts. Earlier in his career, before moving into health tech, he was an executive producer at a WPP digital agency in New York, leading global campaigns for Microsoft and InterContinental Hotels Group. Dave is a graduate of DePaul University and advises digital-health startups on product, positioning and fundraising.
Most people assume that if you want to build a company around breakthrough medical science, you need to be the scientist. Cincinnati Children’s is proving otherwise. Our tech transfer and innovation team is actively building newcos and we are recruiting experienced operators to run them. In this session, our VP of Innovation Ventures and a panel of Cincinnati Children’s Entrepreneurs in Residence (EIRs) will pull back the curtain on how this model actually works: how assets get identified and de-risked, what a newco looks like before a CEO is even in the room, what we look for in the executives we recruit, and how the relationship between CEO and inventor is structured for the long haul. There will be time for Q&A.
