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Abram Becker is an Innovation & Commercialization Specialist supporting the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Hub (WEH) and Discovery to Product (D2P). He helps faculty, staff, and students translate ideas and inventions into innovations with real-world impact and has been with D2P since 2016.
In addition to his time at UW–Madison, Abram has over 20 years of strategic, operational, and financial experience across startups, nonprofits, and multinational corporations. As Vice President of Commercial Strategy at Ipsos, he worked with teams across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia to help healthcare organizations make data-driven clinical and commercial strategy decisions. Previously, he worked in healthcare equity research at UBS Investment Bank as a member of an Institutional Investor-ranked analyst team, covering companies commercializing medical devices, diagnostics, and therapeutics. He joined UBS from Bristol-Myers Squibb, where his roles included managing global market research and business intelligence for a pharmaceutical product that achieved $5 billion in annual global sales.
Abram earned a BS in Biology from Duke University and an MBA with a Certificate in Health Sector Management from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. He also holds an MS in Industrial Engineering Research from UW–Madison, focused on health systems engineering and decision science. He is currently a PhD Candidate in Clinical Investigation through the UW-Madison Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR).
