Management Team

Our founding partners, Paul Bogner and Ann Nelson continue to actively manage and lead the company in the Product Management and Marketing and Communications practice areas. Our newest partner, Alexandra N. Ryan joined Evantec in 2006 bringing with her significant expertise in Compliance, Change Management and Learning Solutions.

Paul Bogner, President, Practice Manager: Research and Development

Ann Nelson, Vice President, Practice Manager: Marketing and Communications

Alexandra N. Ryan, Vice President, Practice Manager: Learning and Change

Paul Bogner

President, Practice Manager: Research and Development

Paul Bogner received his PhD. in Pharmacology from USC. He then received degrees in microbiology and chemistry. Paul has worked for major pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturers such as Sterling Drug and Sterwin Chemical for over 40 years. He gained additional business success from pioneering a medical device company to develop products for the handling of hazardous materials and to protect the staff in the handling and disposal of these materials. He developed and holds the patent on several devices, including the first Sharps Container for the disposal and safe storage of used needles.

Paul's background includes new business development, marketing and research in the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries. Paul Bogner has worked as a consultant to companies in each of these industries and has pioneered new projects in all aspects of product development including R&D, packaging, FDA, marketing and sales. Paul has extensive experience in the development and patenting of products as well as FDA audits and risk management and quality systems and policies.

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Ann Nelson

Vice President, Practice Manager: Marketing and Communications

For more than 25 years, Ann Nelson has developed innovative products and services for the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. In addition, specialties include the psychology of leadership, negotiations and peak performance goals. Development of human resources and their role within an organization and the utilization of personnel to their strengths to achieve maximum employee success and satisfaction. Her achievements include the successful development of two medical device marketing and distribution corporations and their acquisition by Fortune 500 companies with a 500% ROI for investors.

What began as a commitment to develop products that would transform the quality of care in the medical industry, transformed into the development of products as well as the mentoring of individuals. With work experience with several Medical device and Pharmaceutical companies, Johnson & Johnson, McNeil Laboratories, BioMed Resources, Medical Action Industries, BioPlate, etc. With a proven track record of the development of products for the medical industry, Ann continues to offer services on a consulting basis to companies that want to grow both in terms of sales as well as in employee potential.

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Alexandra N. Ryan

Vice President, Practice Manager: Learning and Change

For over 12 years, Alexandra has provided Learning and Change Management expertise to Fortune 500 companies as an internal resource and independent consultant. Alexandra's core competencies include: Compliance, Change Management, Change Communications and Learning Consulting with in-depth experience in a range of industries and for companies in start-up mode and those in the midst of large scale strategic change.

Industry and client experience includes hardware and device manufacturing (Cisco, Sun Microsystems, Bausch & Lomb, Johnson & Johnson, Hewlett-Packard) high-tech software (Lucent, Thomson Financial, Adobe, Citrix, Oracle), manufacturing and commodities (Exxon Mobil, Boeing, Honeywell, Halliburton), pharmaceuticals (Pfizer, GSK, Proctor and Gamble, Merck, Genentech), local government (City of San Francisco) and financial (State Street, Fidelity, John Hancock, Wells Fargo). Global client service offerings are provided domestically as well as in Western Europe, Scandinavia, Latin America and Asia Pacific.

Alexandra's diverse client roster is augmented by an equally diverse academic background including undergraduate degrees in technical communications and computer technology and graduate work in Telecommunications; Security and Privacy, Strategic Internet Management, Instructional Design, and Technology Management.

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