Jesse Kingg

Jesse Kingg is an operations leader with a professional focus on life science commercialization and operations. He spent eighteen years as a successful operations leader for life science companies including medical device, biotech, and medical diagnostics. His experience ranges from leading a $1B medical device manufacturing operation at Abbott Vascular to successfully establishing initial commercial operations for startups and new production sites at Dendreon, HeartFlow, Lucerno Dynamics, and KBI.  

 

Jesse has a proven record of successful leadership through mission focus, strategy development, team alignment and motivation, planning, and execution. He provides operations leadership and project management resources to initiate and grow commercial operations.  This includes advancing startups from late-stage product development to initial commercial launch and beyond, as well as improving or scaling medium- and large-scale production efforts in established commercial organizations.  

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Prior to his career in life sciences, Jesse served twenty years as a US Navy officer, initially as a nuclear submarine engineer and then as an F-18 fighter pilot. He retired as commanding officer of a fighter squadron after earning five Navy Air Medals for flying combat missions from aircraft carriers.   

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Jesse earned a BS in Physics from Alma College and an MS in Business Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business.