Reimagining Work
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About Us
Catalant connects companies to the world's best business talent, on demand. We believe that rapid advances in technology and remarkable changes in how professionals today are choosing to work has transformed the way companies and talent engage with each other. At Catalant, we have built a platform for these seekers and suppliers of talent to meet. Our global network includes 40,000+ independent professionals and subject matter experts who are available to work with enterprise customers on a range of business needs including research, strategy, marketing, finance, sales, and operations projects. There is a new way of working and Catalant is helping to drive the change. Based in Boston, Catalant serves hundreds of global clients, including more than 25 % of the Fortune 100. For more information, visit www.GoCatalant.com
About the Authors
ROB BIEDERMAN
Rob Biederman is the cofounder and co‐CEO of Catalant, where he is responsible for sales and key enterprise relationships, marketing, global partnerships and finance in addition to shared governance of the company.
Prior to founding Catalant, Biederman was a private equity investor at Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital, where he focused on the health care and high‐tech industries. Biederman graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Business School.
PATRICK PETITTI
Patrick Petitti is the cofounder and co‐CEO of Catalant and is responsible for the technology and product development, software enterprise relationships, HR and shared governance for the company.
Prior to founding Catalant, Petitti was a consultant at negotiation and conflict management consulting firm Vantage partners, and before that at Booz Allen Hamilton. Petitti received his BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and MBA from the Harvard Business School. He is a born‐and‐raised Bostonian.
PETER MAGATHLIN
Peter Maglathlin is the cofounder and former CFO of Catalant Technologies.
Prior to founding Catalant Technologies, Peter worked at UBS Investment Bank in the Financial Institutions Group and Highbridge Capital Management in Corporate Development. Peter is also actively involved in the Big Brother Big Sister Organization of Massachusetts Bay. Originally from Connecticut, Peter is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.
Right people, right place, right time. Working with partners, not always permanent employees.
Introduction
We're sure there have been worse presentations in the history of business. But our first effort to sell the idea for the company we now call Catalant was memorably weak.
It was the winter of 2013, and we were halfway through our first year at Harvard Business School. HBS, as it is known in the vernacular, had only recently created a mandatory class aimed at giving every MBA student a taste of start‐up life. That January, the entire first‐year class of 900 broke into teams of six. The assignment: come up with a real‐life business idea and then spend the next few months proving its viability. The first big test came a few