Helen Yuanyuan Cao

Lecturer for the Masters Program Organisations design Teaching Agile Leadership & Management

Building tomorrow's tech society with cultural diversity: 2hearts is a (non-profit) community of people with immigration backgrounds from the tech scene (founders, investors, top executives) with the mission to empower great talent with immigration backgrounds to enrich Europe's tech economy.

As COO & Chief Innovation Officer I cover the external facing functions product management, innovation, marketing communications as well as internal functions of production and quality. And I see my role as a key guardian of our entrepreneurial, innovative and low-hierarchy culture focused on impact, fairness, passion and trust.

Member of the Advisory Board for MBA program aiming at mid-career professionals focusing on digital marketing and digital businesses.

Future Cooperative is a global movement that contributes to a more livable world by strengthening sustainable businesses and promoting sustainable consumption choices through digital technology and local communities. Future Coop started in Munich in 2019 and in Berlin in 2020.

Member of the European Leadership Team BD Biosciences (sales of 450M USD), Executive responsible for marketing, product management, e-commerce and strategy; Line responsibility of 20+ size team in multiple countries Following an office move to a new European Headquarter, I rebuilt the Marketing and Product management teams, oversaw 10+ product launches (instruments and assays) and rolled out B2B digital marketing solution across all European countries.

Vodafone Institute Accelerator for Female Empowerment

IndieBio enables the best scientists to become entrepreneurs and build some of the world's leading breakthrough companies.

Visiting Professor teaching international business and entrepreneurship & Keynote speaker on innovation systems - comparing experiences in Silicon Valley and Europe

Make-A-Wish Foundation grants long-held wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions. We believe a wish experience can be a game changer and give hope when it is most difficult. Founded in Phoenix, Arizona in 1980, Make-A-Wish has become a global organization that has granted more than 330.000 wishes globally. The German chapter of Make-A-Wish was founded in 2008, we strive to inspire children, their families and the community.

Advising startups selected by Startupbootcamp, leading European startup accelerator. Focus on digital health and software

Responsible for incubating an enterprise-wide Advanced Analytics unit consisting of analytical and business capabilities. The goal of the new unit is to capture the value of data for McKesson Corporation. I was in charge of building and institutionalizing the unit, piloting use cases, determining the operating model, hiring and developing the team.

Digital Health Startup Y Combinator class of 2014 Startupbootcamp class of 2013

In charge of driving business and strategy integration of Ingenuity Systems and overall Bioinformatics within QIAGEN.

Responsible for Worldwide marketing to customers in basic, translational and clinical research with particular focus on cancer and infectious diseases research Scouting of trends and new technologies, evaluation of key business opportunities Built new global strategic marketing team from scratch that is hungry and results driven

Leading comprehensive business strategy project evaluating and defining long term strategy of life science business including market evaluation, competition assessment, M&A roadmap and target identification, geographical expansion. Driving a 30+ cross functional team with R&D, Sales, Marketing, Business Development.

Projects in Europe and US including: ~10 strategic due diligences for buyside PE firms, portfolio strategy, go-to market strategy, operational improvement

The Millennium Villages project offers a bold, innovative model for helping rural African communities lift themselves out of extreme poverty. The Millennium Villages themselves are proving that by fighting poverty at the village level through community-led development, rural Africa can achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 and escape from the poverty trap.

Finance & Banking