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Professional Summary

Bio-optimist entrepreneur and operator with a clear understanding that biology is the future of technology. Deeply motivated by human need and technologically obsessed with the cutting edge of biology, algorithms, and hardware. Highly empathic leader that recruits and motivates teams with focus, speed, and agility.

Skills

Cross-functional Leadership    Team Building    Entrepreneurship
Product Management    Fundraising    Partnership Development   

Project Management    Growth Marketing    Research & Development    Strategy    Stakeholder Management    Patents

Work Experience

2019-Present

Co-founder & CEO, Banting PBC

Banting is the first public benefit corporation focused on the insulin vertical with products addressing accessibility and affordability, bringing US patients access to up to 70% time and cost savings.

  • Built and deployed 3 products including: (i) a patient-pharmacy marketplace for savings on brand-name insulins, (ii) an insulin-focused telemedicine enablement product for physicians, and (iii) a proof-of-concept biomanufacturing of insulins

  • Led outreach and fundraising, closing over $200k including investment from Mucker Capital and recruitment of an advisory team including the former CTO of GoodRx and a physician and Director at One Medical.

  • Product Management & Development, Marketing, A/B testing, User Research, Partnership Development, Internal Operations, Growth Marketing

2020-Present

Co-founder, The Glassfloor

The Glassfloor is a first-of-a-kind mutual mentorship community. Like a rising tide that lifts all boats, this is a community to pull each other up, and turn the glass ceiling into our Glassfloor. We are not exclusive to any subset of people but do highly value the resilience that comes from overcoming adversity in all its shapes, sizes, colors, and flavors.

2017-2019

Chief of Staff & Operations Lead, Koniku Inc.

Koniku’s novel approach to biotech uses biology as a fundamental technology, operating with a blue ocean strategy. The Konikore is a portable smelling device that merges living biology with traditional hardware and software technologies.

  • Managed development of the Konikore – an IoT smelling device with living biosensors.

  • Negotiated $12M in contracts with Fortune 500 companies.

  • Improved employee alignment by 57% by redefining project initiation and reporting.

  • Oversaw company growth from 7 to 24 employees while improving the average time toproductivity to 29 days.

  • Built a continuous reporting pipeline from internal to client-facing decks, decreasing employee time cost by 30% and increasing client satisfaction.

Education

2009-2013

Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

  • Developed innovative multidisciplinary project (neuroscience, genetics, molecular and cell biology, nutrition).

  • Discovered a novel mechanism by which diet alters hunger, lead to competitive R01 grantfunding with budget >$1.7M USD from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

  • Published 2 peer-reviewed, first-author papers and received the Bhuvan Excellence in Research Award, the highest student honor at UAMS.

2014-2016

College of Medicine​

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Successfully completed through passage of USMLE Step 1 Examination.

2006-2009

Bachelor of Science in Biology

University of Miami

Patents & Publications

  • F. Kennedy McDaniel​, Marius Guerard, Oshiorenoya E Agabi. Methods of predicting emotional response to sensory stimuli based on individual traits. WO2019183612A1, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Published 26 September, 2019.

  • Renaud Renault, ​F. Kennedy McDaniel​, Oshiorenoya Agabi. System and Method for Detecting Signals from a Cell. US Application 62/858162, United States Patent and Trademark Office, 06 June, 2019.

  • Kennedy McDaniel​, Marius Guerard, and Oshiorenoya Agabi. Universal Odor Code Systems and Odor Encoding Devices. US Application US 62/655,682, United States Patent and Trademark Office, 10 April, 2018.

  • Kennedy McDaniel​, Marius Guerard, and Oshiorenoya Agabi. Methods For evaluating Physiological Response to Stimulus. US Application 62/647,395, United States Patent and Trademark Office, 23 March 2018.

  • Melanie C. MacNicol, Chad E. Cragle, ​F. Kennedy McDaniel​, Linda L. Hardy, Yan Wang, Karthik Arumugam, Yasir Rahmatallah, Galina V. Glazko, Ania Wilczynska, Gwen V. Childs, Daohong Zhou & Angus M. MacNicol. (2017). “Evasion of regulatory phosphorylation by an alternatively spliced isoform of Musashi2” Nature Scientific Reports.

  • Smeds MR, Thrush CR, ​McDaniel F,​ et al. (2017) “Relationships Between Burnout and Study Habits on General Surgery Resident Performance on the ABSITE.” 12t​h​ Annual Academic Surgical Congress.

  • Cragle, F.K.​ and Baldini, G. (2014). “Mild lipid stress induces profound loss of MC4R protein abundance and function.” Molecular Endocrinology.

  • McDaniel, F.K.​ and Molden, B.M., et al. (2012). “Constitutive, cholesterol-dependent Endocytosis of MC4R is essential to maintain receptor responsiveness to α-MSH.” The Journal of Biological Chemistry.

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