Merrick Olives
Partner at McKinsey & Company (Retired)
- Role
- Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Daykin Molecular Systems
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)
Feb 2025 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US
I assist the Daykin leadership team in strategy and the commercialization of Daykin\'s innovative genetic technologies.At Daykin Molecular Systems, we are a team of scientists and entrepreneurs working to bring lifesaving RNA driven therapeutics to people around the world. Our work is focused on solving one of the biggest practical limits in RNA medicine: cold chain dependence. mRNA therapies and vaccines today are constrained by freezing, shipping, and storage. Our work changes that. We’ve developed and patented a stabilizing solution - built entirely from FDA-approved components - that keeps mRNA and DNA formulations stable at ambient temperature for over 30 days, and even at 40 °C, without loss of function. When RNA can travel and perform at room temperature, everything changes. Development, manufacturing, and distribution of innovative medicines becomes faster and less expensive. And even more importantly, therapies can finally reach places that freezers never could, impacting the lives of more and more people around the globe.
Education
The University of New Mexico
BS, Mechanical Engineering
1981 — 1985
Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management
MBA
1989 — 1991
Skills
- Process Improvement
- Team Building
- Management
- Business Analysis
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Entrepreneurship
- Executive Management
- Business Transformation
- Business Planning
- Operations Management
- Program Management
- Business Intelligence
- Coaching
- Change Management
- Marketing
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Marketing Strategy
- Leadership
- Organizational Development
- Business Development
- Budgets
- Management Consulting
- Strategic Partnerships
- Vendor Management
- Strategic Planning
- Business Process Improvement
- Leadership Development
- Project Management
- Analysis
- Nonprofits
- Product Management
- Business Strategy
- Consulting
- Crm
- Strategy
- Competitive Analysis
- Contract Negotiation
- Start-Ups
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