Jim Martin
Foundational Commercial Leader | Building Bioinformatics & Scientific Informatics Companies from Inception to $5M+ ARR | $52M+ Funding & 2 Exits
- Role
- Senior Vice President Business Development at Via Scientific, Inc
- Location
- Boston, MA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jim Martin
ABOUTI am a commercial executive who builds and scales revenue operations for early-stage bioinformatics and scientific informatics companies. As a foundational commercial leader at six organizations, I have established go-to-market strategies, developed enterprise pharma relationships, and built the commercial infrastructure that has enabled $58M+ in aggregate funding and two successful acquisitions.What I DoI partner with investors and founders to take scientific software and services companies from initial revenue to scalable growth. My expertise spans multi-omics data management, AI/ML-driven drug discovery platforms, electronic lab notebooks, and scientific workflow solutions serving pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, scientific, and research organizations globally.Core ExpertiseCommercial Leadership Foundational-stage GTM strategy and execution P&L ownership and revenue accountability Enterprise sales (pharma/biotech) Global account managementDomain Knowledge Multi-omics & bioinformatics platforms AI/ML in drug discovery Scientific SaaS & workflow solutions Lab informatics & data managementFunding & M&A Milestones Enabled Via Scientific:$5M Seed (2024) DeepLife: €16M Seed & Series A (2022–2024) Elucidata:$22M Seed & Series A (2021–2022) Arxspan: Acquired by Bruker Corporation (2019) GGA Software Services: Acquired by EPAM Systems (2014) InnoCentive:$9M Series A (2006)
Experience
Senior Vice President Business Development
Oct 2022 — Present · Boston, MA, US
Via Scientific\'s mission is to accelerate science by applying AI and other technologies to intelligently expedite scientific insight generation. Via\'s Foundry platform, available as a Platform-as-a-Service or an on-premise solution, radically simplifies enterprise scale multi-omics data management, analytics, and visualization.
Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Master of Business Administration - MBA
Boston University School of Medicine, Division of Graduate Medical Sciences
Master of Arts - MA, Physiology
Skills
- Management Consulting
- Biotechnology/Chemicals Markets Analysis
- Business Strategy
- Biotechnology
- Account Management
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Commercial Operations Management
- Outsourcing
- Project Management
- Executive Search
- Management
- Lifesciences
- Entrepreneurship
- Corporate Strategy
- Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
- Enterprise Software
- Marketing and Market Development
- Market Development
- Crm
- Strategy
- Operations Management
- Financial Planning & Analysis
- Marketing
- Product Development
- Analysis
- Business Development
- Executive Recruitment
- Program Management
- Life Sciences
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Internal Business Consulting
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