Brooks Consulting has offered strategy consulting services to life sciences, IT and manufacturing companies for 25 years.
Co-founded by Phil and Jan Brooks, Brooks Consulting is a Preferred Provider with both Pennsylvania’s Innovation Partnership (assisting clients who are awarded MicroGrant, MicroVoucher or Federal Marketing Assistance funding), and the ScaleUp West Virginia SBIR/STTR Assistance Program.
Brooks Consulting has worked as a grant consultant for SBIR/STTR Phase I, Phase II, Fast Track, Broad Agency Announcement, Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Program, Rapid Innovation Fund, i6 SBIR supplement and Commercialization Accelerator/ Assistance Program proposals. Submitting to seven agencies (DOD, DOE, DOT, ED, EPA, NIH, NSF), our work has resulted in awards totaling over $14 million in grants to our clients.
Philip L. Brooks
Phil has served as a consultant or C-level executive with seven startups and two established companies in manufacturing, mining, information technology, entertainment and life sciences. One exists today as Cook Myosite and for another, Jump Start Associates, Time CapitalistsSM, he served as co-founder and CEO, assisting early stage businesses prepare for their first outside capital and as an active member of their management team. Phil served as an Entrepreneur in Residence with the University of Pittsburgh's Innovation Institute, where he co-led the National Science Foundation-funded I-Corps Site program to help faculty researchers and students listen to customers and help them build market winning value into their innovative solutions. Previously, Phil owned a public relations firm focused on the high tech sector, served as a director with Big Six accounting firms in Pittsburgh, was a partner with an economic consulting firm in Washington, DC and worked as an analytical research chemist in the pharmaceutical sector in New York. He served as chair of BlueTree Allied Angels’ Growth & Transaction Committee, and was a Board Member of the Pittsburgh Entrepreneur's Forum. He has an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, an MS in Pharmacotherapeutics from LIU Brooklyn and a BS in Biology from the University of Connecticut.
Janet Z. Brooks
Jan has more than 20 years of consulting experience in various industries. In addition, she has over eight years of department/project management experience in the healthcare field; acting as liaison between a health care information systems provider (HBO & Company, now McKesson Corp) and hospital staff; managing two large clinical laboratories (Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.); and teaching Hematology, Microbiology, Coagulation, and Electronics to medical technology college students and medical residents in various settings.
As a Medical Technologist, Jan is well versed in all the clinical areas in hospital pathology laboratories including: Clinical Chemistry, Hematology, Special Hematology and Coagulation, Immunology, Microbiology, Mycology, Parasitology, Virology, Cytology, Histology, Nuclear Medicine and Blood Banking.
Ms. Brooks earned an MS in Medical Technology from the University of Buffalo with a specialty in Hematology and Coagulation, a BS in Biology from Slippery Rock University, and a Certificate of Medical Technology from Mercy Hospital School of Medical Technology, Pittsburgh, PA.
Brooks Consulting supplements its in-house team with industry or technical specialists, as needed, to support client requirements.
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