Come hear a story from the trenches of true grit entrepreneurship.
Steve Schneider will tell his story of wanting to bring smoking drugs
to the masses. He will talk about the initial idea of bringing THC to
market and how this evolved to bringing inhaled drugs to patients. He
will discuss the role of perseverance, determination, luck, and being
prepared and how this lead to the single largest Series A financing of
$45MM in 2002 for Alexza-MDC.
Networking and light dinner from 6:30pm, plus networking session will follow.
Presenter:
Mr. Schneider is an entrepreneur having founded a number of
successful ventures, primarily in healthcare related fields. Most
recently in 2001, he co-founded Alexza Molecular Delivery
Corporation (Alexza MDC) with Alejandro C. Zaffaroni, Ph.D. by
merging Molecular Delivery Corporation, which he founded in 1996,
with Alexza Corporation founded by Dr. Zaffaroni in 2000. At MDC,
Mr. Schneider served as CEO and led the invention of MDC's vapor
delivery technologies and devices. After the merger, he served as
President and COO until June 2003, and continues today as a member
of the Board of Directors. Previously, he was employee 2 and one of
the executive team members of Corus Medical Corporation, which
advanced the safer use of autologous blood for transfusions. Prior
to Corus he forged a community-based preventive health coalition
representing over 100,000 residents to improve health-related
conditions in Buffalo, NY; he built another similar organization in
San Jose, CA. Mr. Schneider received his M.A. degree from the
University of Houston and his J.D. degree from Golden Gate
University in San Francisco, CA.
Stephen A. Schneider
