Most businesses start out with a focused idea and a highly-developed plan. Others have a way of stumbling into success.
Biotechnology Business Consultants falls into the latter description. It all started when Mickey Katz worked in administration at the University of Michigan Medical School in the late 1980s. She helped manage grants and organize the spin off of a life sciences business. After her efforts became successful, Katz figured there had to be a better way to make money in the great wide open.
"Mickey, with all of her contacts at the university, was bombarded with requests to help start more spin-offs," says Micheal Kurek, partner Biotechnology Business Consultants.
She formed Biotechnology Business Consultants in 1990 and never looked back. With a focus on early stage entrepreneurs and companies looking to make their mark on the lucrative life sciences industry, Mickey developed a business plan and worked overtime making the right contacts to be successful.
"We do some work on the East and West coasts, but most of our work is done between Pittsburgh and Chicago," Michael Kurek says.
Lisa Kurek, a partner with Biotechnology Business Consultants and wife of Michael Kurek, joined the firm in 1996. Michael Kurek came on board in 2002. Katz retired two years ago, handing off control of the company to the Kureks, but she still pops in to help with projects.
The firm has gone up and down in employees from two to six during its lifetime, but has settled on an average of five in the last couple of years. Michael Kurek says the firm could hire another person or two in the not-too-distant future.
Source: Micheal Kurek, partner Biotechnology Business Consultants
Writer: Jon Zemke
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