Biotechnology Development Consultants

Experts | Transformative | Agile. Do this right and the results follow. We want trusted long-term replationships with our clients

The breadth of our service portfolio, the depth of our experience, our global capability, the testimonials and repeat contracts that we manage. Greyrigge Associates are proven and we are resilient. Our business shows consistent year-on-year growth and is committed to bringing in the most experienced and proven Associates to strengthen our bench. This all means that we focus on the results that you need. By making it easy to work with us, we can focus on the project and not just the resourcing. Add to this our skills in helping to commercialise your project and our links to multiple global research, university and govermental programmes, we bring so much more than alternative consultant suppliers.

But don't just believe us, read our testimonials and if you need to talk with one of our clients, let us know and we can facilitate that. This is one of the most crucial decisions that you are going to be making regardless of your organisational size or stage in the process.

Delivering biotech consultants is not the only thing that we do. We are often invited to sit on Boards and Panels, to act as advisors and help commercialise the oppotunities of our clients. Whether it is valuation, due-diligence or establishing exit paths for founders, or acquisition, merger and divestment or licencing through partnerships, we have the experience to help you make better, data-driven decisions.

We also work with VC's and are often asked to safeguard their investments, bringing our market and business understanding to improve the commercial outcomes of all parties. We add credibility to projects securing stronger client outcomes and can bring in financing solutions as needed.

Like the biotech industry, GreyRigge Associates is a truly global consulancy and focuses resources where you need them. If we are not in your precise location, rest assured that our follow-the-sun capability and dextrous use of online collaboration tools means that we are a part of your team quickly and efficiently.

Given the high risks and high costs of biopharmaceutical development, you need the most appropriate expertise that you can find.  We offer that expertise. Furthermore, GRA has global networks that can provide links into academic or industrial capabilities that you’ll likely need.  GRA communicates with clients through a combination of face to face, telephone and online web tools such as Teams, Zoom, Skype & Webex as well as email. We typically use your inhouse collaboration tools to share work and deliver our projects.

GRA successfully works with clients across multiple timezones working with companies across the Americas, on to Europe through to Asia and Australia and repeat, with proven projects including companies such as Takeda, Ipsen Biopharma, Mesoblast, Themis Bioscience, FluGen & Abcam.

Fixed price and time-and-materials cost are the two primary methods for consultancies to price their services.

These each present varying advantages and disadvantages to the client and to the consultant. For where a clear scope of work is provided, a fixed price can be ideal as the client will know what they will be paying and can budget accordingly without worrying that costs will get out of control. However, if the scope of work changes or wasn’t clear from the beginning, then a time-and-materials basis may be more appropriate. With this approach, the client will pay a daily or hourly rate and GRA will send a list of hours worked together with the total fee due. This approach is more flexible with the client 100% sure that they’ll gets the solution fully corresponding their expectations. However, costs must be monitored carefully as they can accumulate over time.

GreyRigge Associates is flexible in its approach to billing. This can be discussed at the beginning of the project to agree what is most appropriate for the client needs.

This is critical. You need the right skills and the right aptitude to fit in with your team and deliver both independently and with the right level of interdependency. We know this and so spend the time matching you with the right associate from GreyRigge. Our senior leadership team, including Dr. Lee Smith and Samantha Dowse will work with you to establish a clear scope of works and understand the exact skill-set that you need. They would then match with our range of Associates and go through an on-boarding exercise to ensure that the resourcing works for us all. Depending on the size of the project, multiple Associates may be involved. 

Building and maintaining your trust in our serivces, company and Associates is of paramount importance to us, especially as your success frequently results in further assignments which reinforce our position as your trusted resource partner. 

Most of Greyrigge Associates consultants have a deep domain experience exceeding 20 years from working in industry. Click through to the 'Associates' tab in the top navivation bar to see our extensive range of associates and their expertise. We have around 1000 man-years of biotech expertise at our disposal. Our founder, Dr. Lee Smith has a Ph.D. and over 25 years experience working in the Biotech industry.  All GRA associates hold a minimum of a Bachelors degree and mostly Ph.D.s, plus many years experience in the industry. We will always discuss with you who would work on your project.  We have proven track records or success as shown in our testimonials on the Home page.  Brief biographies of GRA associates can be found here.

Every client situation is unique. Sometimes, we are the team and sometimes we stand shoulder to shoulder with your inhouse team But to outline a typical approach, then it would include the following steps:

• Initial non-confidential discussion to understand your requirements.
• We put a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) in place so we can talk openly.
• We would discuss over the phone, video or possibly face to face to clarify the details on what you wish to achieve, the timelines that you have and the dynamics of your team.
• We will also discuss the merits of both time-and-materials and fixed cost approaches.
• Once we have a detailed understanding, we will send a proposal covering the scope and fees for the project, plus details regarding the Associates who we feel will add the right value to your project.
• We’ll begin work on your project on the agreed date.
• We will have a clear project target and timescale in mind.  We will have agreed the frequency of online and face to face meetings as the project proceeds together with planned documents and reports.
• A senior member of the Greyrigge Associates team will be on point to manage escalations and change control requests to ensure that our Associates are delivering to requirement.