Director, Biomedical Manufacturing Network
Dr. Gregory Theyel is the Director of the Biomedical Manufacturing Network and Professor at California State University. He is the founder of the Biomedical Manufacturing Network, a partnership of more than 1,000 biomedical companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Network maintains databases and maps of biomedical companies and assists companies with the commercialization of technology. The Network also conducts research on biomedical technology trends, value chain traceability, and the value and location of manufacturing. Dr. Theyel has helped over 500 biomedical companies with manufacturing, technology, and business planning. He also recently published the 2018 article “Understanding Manufacturing Location Decision Making: Rationales for Retaining, Offshoring, Reshoring, and Hybrid Approaches” in the Economic Development Quarterly and the book Industry Emergence: Strategic Management and Synchronization for New Industries (Routledge Press, 2017), which introduces a framework to explain the features, interaction, and synchronization of key elements for the birth and growth of new industries. He has published more than 25 peer-reviewed academic articles and has taught industrial engineering and management courses in Hong Kong, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Brazil, Russia, and the United States.