Charles Schultz

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About Charles Schultz

Corporate Leadership, Business Development, Commercial Program Development, Building Corporate Culture, Speaking Engagements, Financial Evaluation and Modeling, Investor Relations, Launch Management I have devoted my entire career to optimizing organizational impact, inspiring teams to greatness, and achieving unprecedented results. This is my passion and purpose! Everything I do is geared toward empowering people, sparking curiosity and inspiring the inner fire. What am I best known for? LEVERAGING STARTUP EXPERIENCE & FINANCIAL TRAINING TO DELIVER EXPONENTIAL GROWTH CENTERED ON PATIENT EXPERIENCE I’m a catalyst, innovator and healthy disruptor. You don’t hire me to keep the lights on; you hire me to experiment with progressive ideas, fail forward, shift mindsets, maximize talent, and empower culture transformation. I thrive in partnership, love big challenges, and take intelligent risks. Converted sq ft of vivarium space into a “Haunted Hallway” where children and parents living with T1D could experience a spooky fun filled evening with Lexicon employees to promote a strong sense of community. DRIVING RAPID GROWTH Quick to inspire diverse people to explore new ideas, identify untapped opportunities, and deliver innovative solutions. True change comes from not only challenging the status quo but removing and overcoming obstacles to fully enable people and teams to achieve their potential and unprecedented results. I built multiple business operational centers from the ground-up and led Lexicon’s corporate transformation from R&D startup to a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company. Leveraged 5 years of investment banking experience as private partner in a leading Wall Street boutique advisory firm to guide strategic drug development and to drive access to capital markets and investors.