Alan K. Hauser

Alan K. Hauser is a commercialization and business development executive who has spent his career turning breakthrough biotechnologies into collaborations with real-world impact. Inspired by his teenage brother's battle with Burkitt lymphoma, he has focused on precision oncology and the platform-to-partnership translation that brings new medicines to patients. Alan has executed more than 65 strategic alliances and supported nine genomics product launches at companies that ultimately achieved exits valued at more than two billion dollars. He earned a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from UC Berkeley, completed Northwestern's Kellogg Management Institute executive program, and is a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP). His chapter in Lead with Empathy distills decades of negotiation experience into the Defendable Deal Framework for designing partnerships that every stakeholder champions long after the close.