About Maxiom Group
Company Overview — We are Biotech Consultants, Pharmaceutical Consultants and Medical Device Consultants

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Maxiom Group is a leading business and IT consulting firm exclusively serving the life sciences industry. We help emerging, established and mature biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device companies transform their businesses to achieve success at each stage of their life cycle - from drug discovery and clinical development, through commercial launch and sustained market leadership.

We have pioneered new business practices, tools and methodologies to serve the life science marketplace and help transform companies from science leaders to business leaders. Our focus, insight and approach enable us to be a strong business partner for our clients, adding value throughout their life cycle. Specifically:

Focus: Maxiom Group's exclusive commitment to working with life sciences companies means that our clients know they are getting services specifically tailored to their needs. Clients are confident that we know their industry and are committed to it. We also understand the life cycle that they evolve through as they become commercial companies and we have developed and aligned our services and tools to go with the stages within this cycle.

Insight: Maxiom Group has deep industry knowledge, experience and demonstrated successes. The company has a strong life sciences heritage with cross-industry experience underpinnings. The result is that we bring fresh insight on how to solve mission critical issues and help life sciences companies formulate strategies, design business processes and implement core business systems. We have also built a state-of-the art information technology demonstration center to enable clients to explore appropriate IT solutions to support their business in a supportive environment.

Our collaborative team approach provides the basis for ensuring that each client engagement is successful. Maxiom Group views client engagements as business partnerships in which our clients have continuous access to people with specialized skills & expertise.

Approach: Maxiom Group's proven flexibility, methodologies and pragmatic approach have proven invaluable to clients in their transformation. We have developed a diverse set of service lines, tools and methodologies to meet their needs. These innovative approaches include:

• Business Process Design
• Commercial Launch Planning
• Supply Chain Management
• Operational Excellence
• Strategic Decision Support
• Project Management Office
• IT Strategic Roadmap
• IT Utilization and Value Assessment
• Software Package Selection
• Software Package Implementation
• System Integration
• Validation Services

Our goal is simple. We aspire to improve the companies who are improving people's lives. We seek to provide significant value through the services we provide, operate to high standards of integrity and professionalism, collaborate with our clients to enhance their business, and provide a rewarding work environment for our team members.

Company Background

Maxiom Group was founded in 2001 in recognition of the evolving and maturing nature of the life science industry. The new scientific breakthroughs that have occurred over the last two decades are accelerating the number of new drugs, medical devices and diagnostic products that are entering the marketplace.

Maxiom Group's founding team members saw the growing importance of the life sciences sector in New England and began to more deeply understand the profound transformation occurring in the industry and the opportunity to provide assistance to companies making the transition to commercial operations. They realized that emerging life science companies would need to transition from science-driven companies focusing on R&D and clinical trials to product-driven companies with all of the skills, business processes and information systems needed to operate as a commercial company.

Out of these early efforts, Maxiom Group saw that a strong need for life science companies was in the area of "Supply Chain Management." Supply Chain Management is the overall set of business processes, financial transactions, and information that allows companies to manage the flow of materials from the factory out to the patient. As research organizations, most life science companies do not poses the knowledge, experience or skills to put in place an effective supply chain for a commercial product.

In addition to Supply Chain Management, we initiated an information technology (IT) consulting practice to assist life science companies in implementing the IT solutions that they would need to operate as a commercial company.

Through our focus on Life Sciences, the insight that we bring, and our approach to transforming our clients' businesses, we are building the most unique and innovative consulting firm serving this dynamic industry.

Leadership Team

The Maxiom Group Leadership Team provides the ability, knowledge and depth of experience to both work with biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device clients directly and to manage a staff of highly qualified professionals.

Scott Chizzo

As Founder and President of Maxiom Consulting Group, Scott has led the creation of this dedicated consulting company focused on addressing the unique and challenging needs of the rapidly growing biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device sectors. He is responsible for all administrative functions within the company as well as leading the Executive Team and working with clients on long term strategy.

Scott brings over 20 years of business strategy consulting, operations management consulting, and supply chain consulting experience to his work helping biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device companies align their business, operations and technology strategies to support development, commercialization and the market success of their products. Scott is considered a thought leader in business transformation and brings multi-industry experience to his work assisting these emerging companies to make the transition from research organizations to successful product companies. He has written and spoken extensively on these topics.

Before founding Maxiom Group, Scott was Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer at Hurwitz Group, Inc. a technology analyst firm. Prior to Hurwitz he was Senior Vice President of e-Solutions & Chief Strategy Officer at Primix Solutions, Inc. a strategic internet services firm. Scott has also served in a number of consulting roles at Benchmarking Partners, Deloitte Consulting and Theodore Barry & Associates.

Scott holds an MBA with an emphasis on Strategy, Operations & Organizational Development from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA and a BS in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering from the University of Illinois.

schizzo@maxiomgroup.com

John Lyons

As the leader of Maxiom Group's Solutions Consulting Practice, John directs a staff of business and information technology consulting professionals that help biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device clients plan, design and implement IT solutions. John's team guides clients through the stages of formulating an IT strategy and roadmap, selecting appropriate solutions, and implementing and validating those solutions in order to support their growing businesses. John has an exceptional track record of working with senior executives to align their business direction with the proper operational and IT infrastructure to execute their strategies.

John brings extensive experience to our clients in strategy formulation, business process development, and implementation of IT solutions, as well as industry positions in product management and sales. Previously, he served as a Vice President in the HR IT Outsourcing Group at Fidelity Investments, working to create the product management organization, driving market analysis and new strategies to achieve market and profitability goals. Prior to Fidelity, John worked at several management and IT consulting firms including Collaborative Consulting, Blue Agave Software, NerveWire, Avicon and PriceWaterHouseCoopers.

John received a BS in Accounting and Finance from Boston College.

jlyons@maxiomgroup.com

Todd Applebaum

As co- founder and leader of the Strategy and Operations Consulting Practice at Maxiom Consulting Group, Todd directs a staff of professionals, including business strategy consultants, commercial launch consultants, supply chain consultants and lean manufacturing consultants, and works directly with biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device clients on strategic direction and the plans, tasks, and deliverables it takes to get results.

Todd has a distinguished track record in business strategy, business process analysis, commercial launch, manufacturing, continuous improvement and supply chain management, having led strategic and operational initiatives at large industrial clients across the biopharmaceutical, electronics, and automotive sectors. He is recognized for his expertise in inter-enterprise supply chain collaboration.

Prior to Maxiom Group, Todd served as a Partner at Benchmarking Partners, Inc., where he played a key role in the development and delivery of their Value Chain Strategies and Partnership Strategies service lines. While at Benchmarking Partners, he was part of a team of practitioners that taught a Massachusetts Institute of Technology course for executives and graduate students entitled, "Developing the CEO Team's Value Chain Network Strategy."

Before joining Benchmarking, Todd co-founded and served as Vice President of Operations for a Boston-based CD-ROM producer. His work with manufacturers began at General Motors and TRW, in operating roles including production management, planning and scheduling, materials management, product development, and systems integration. As a manager in the Manufacturing Practice of Deloitte Consulting, Todd went on to work with a spectrum of multinational manufacturers on business process reengineering, technology assessment and selection, and best-practices implementation efforts.

Todd holds a MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and BS in Industrial Engineering from General Motors Institute.

tapplebaum@maxiomgroup.com

Jim Baxter

As co-founder and vice president of the Solutions Practice Jim works with a group of it consultants and works directly with biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device clients to deliver technology strategy and solutions including IT planning, IT implementation and IT governance. Jim is known for his unique ability to synthesize seemingly complex decisions, solutions and issues into manageable elements and guide the joint client/consulting team to on-time and on-budget performance.

As a technology generalist, Jim's previous experience includes leading consulting practices focused in Enterprise Portals & Collaboration, Enterprise Resource Planning, e-Business and Systems Integration. His experience extends around the globe, including solution delivery in Europe and sales management for Middle East/Africa and Asia/Pacific. Jim has also been a key player on a number of mergers, partnering, and corporate integration initiatives.

Prior to Maxiom Group, Jim was the regional manager for Unitas Corporation and had responsibility for sales and delivery for consulting and system integration services focused on enterprise information portals. Before Unitas he was Corporate Executive Vice President at The Convergent Group where he was responsible for global sales and subsequently managed the Business Leadership practice.

Jim was also a Senior Partner with CSC Consulting Group for several years where his knowledge, insight, and experience was utilized in various roles such as project manager, account manager, practice manager, and managing director. This covered many areas of business development, client relations, staff management, and value delivery for all phases of systems integration.

Jim holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

jbaxter@maxiomgroup.com

Todd Martin

Todd leads the Business Development team at Maxiom Group, including Sales and Marketing. Todd serves as a key liaison between our biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device clients and our senior practitioners. Through his insightful diagnosis, he assists in formulating and designing tailored programs that address specific client business issues and challenges.

Through the creative application of Maxiom Group's experience, capabilities and software solutions, Todd is able to develop tailored programs designed to assist emerging biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device companies grow and scale their business.

Prior to Maxiom Group, Todd was the Vice President of Sales for Verid Technology Corporation, a software solution provider specializing in discrete and process manufacturing industries. Before Verid, he was Alliance and Business Development Manager for Concentra Corporation, an enterprise software development company specializing in interactive selling systems for large industrial and high technology sales organizations. In addition, Todd served as Director of Marketing for MKS Instruments, Inc., a company that manufactures and markets instrumentation, components and systems for advanced materials manufacturing processes.

Todd holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maine, School of Engineering Technology.

tmartin@maxiomgroup.com