Corporate Network

Our United States based corporate network are potential partners of The Challenge finalists. They may offer advice and feedback to improve the commercialisation opportunity of New Zealand business ideas in the United States.

Baxter International Inc.

Katherine Rojahn is a Project Manager with Baxter's Corporate R & D Innovation group. Corporate R&D Innovation is an internal Baxter resource devoted to discovering growth opportunities and nurturing early-stage research that will leverage the company's existing capabilities while expanding its reach into new product areas. Baxter International Inc., through its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures and markets products that save and sustain the lives of people with hemophilia, immune disorders, infectious diseases, kidney disease, trauma, and other chronic and acute medical conditions. As a global, diversified healthcare company, Baxter applies a unique combination of expertise in medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology to create products that advance patient care worldwide.

Bayer HealthCare

The Bayer Group is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. Bayer HealthCare, a subsidiary of Bayer AG, is one of the world’s leading, innovative companies in the healthcare and medical products industry and is based in Leverkusen, Germany. The company combines the global activities of the Animal Health, Bayer Schering Pharma, Consumer Care and Medical Care divisions. Bayer HealthCare’s aim is to discover and manufacture products that will improve human and animal health worldwide. Find more information at www.bayerhealthcare.com.

CA Inc

CA Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) is the world's leading independent information technology (IT) management software company. We help companies manage IT to better perform, compete, innovate and grow their businesses. With our Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision and technology, customers can unify IT and simplify the management of complex computing environments. As a valued partner in the healthcare market, care providers rely on us to bring innovative technologies for the remote monitoring and care of their patients, offering improved quality of care while reducing costs.

Cisco

The Cisco® Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), the global strategic consulting arm of Cisco, helps leading private and public healthcare organizations improve the customer experience and care delivery effectiveness. IBSG designs innovative business processes and then integrates advanced technologies into visionary programs that optimize business results and increase efficiency. Drawing on a unique combination of industry experience, business acumen, and technical knowledge, IBSG consultants work as trusted advisers to many of the world's leading organizations.

CSC

CSC is a global leader in providing technology enabled business solutions and services in many industries including healthcare. With 92,000 employees worldwide and over 5,000 professionals dedicated to the health sector servicing public sector, private sector and not-for-profit providers, health plans, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers and allied industries globally, the company is a recognised leader in transforming the healthcare industry through the effective use of information to improve healthcare outcomes, decision making and operating efficiency. CSC is currently involved in managing one of the largest projects in the world at the UK National Health Service for which they provide clinical and other IT services to support over 500,000 clinical staff serving over 30 million citizens. For more information please visit www.csc.com.

IBM

IBM is a business solutions company that translates advanced information technologies into business value for clients through its professional solutions, services and consulting businesses. With 385,000 employees around the world, 1,000 of them in New Zealand, plus an extensive network of business partners and suppliers, all underpinned by leading-edge research labs, IBM offers a unique combination of industry insight, high-powered research and technology expertise. IBM is working with thousands of clients in the healthcare and life sciences industry to develop patient-centred smarter solutions that result in lower cost, better-quality care and, most importantly, healthier individuals, whanau and communities. To find out more, visit ibm.com/healthcare.

Merck Sharp & Dohme

As one of Australia's largest prescription pharmaceutical companies, Merck Sharp & Dohme is committed to finding better ways to improve the health of Australians. Since operations began in Australia in the 1950s, almost every Australian has been touched by a medicine made by Merck Sharp & Dohme. Since 1995 Merck Sharp & Dohme has brought more than 20 new medicines to Australians, including therapies to treat cholesterol, diabetes, osteoporosis, asthma, high blood pressure and HIV. In the next five years, Merck Sharp & Dohme anticipates bringing many more medicines to Australians, including significant advances in cancer and obesity. Through its ongoing support of innovative research and science in Australia - from sponsoring the Australian Science Olympiads for high school students to actively partnering with Australian researchers to bring their discoveries to the world - Merck Sharp & Dohme hopes to uncover tomorrow's advances in disease treatment and prevention. For more information, visit www.msd-australia.com.au

Oracle Health Sciences

Oracle is a leading strategic software solutions provider to the health sciences industry. Oracle Health Sciences helps pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and healthcare organizations become the most successful in the world by offering the most innovative products and services that deliver the most compelling customer and shareholder value. Addressing industry requirements, Oracle provides comprehensive solutions including clinical trial management and analysis, electronic data capture, adverse event reporting and pharmacovigilance, and healthcare interoperability. Oracle partners with health sciences industry leaders – including 20 of the top 20 life sciences companies and 10 of the top 12 Fortune Global 500 healthcare organizations – to prevent and cure disease and enhance quality of life and accelerate insights for better health.

Pfizer

Founded in 1849, Pfizer is the world's premier biopharmaceutical company taking new approaches to better health. We discover, develop, manufacture and deliver quality, safe and effective prescription medicines to treat and help prevent disease for both people and animals. We also partner with healthcare providers, governments and local communities around the world to expand access to our medicines and to provide better quality health care and health system support. At Pfizer, colleagues in more than 90 countries work every day to help people stay happier and healthier longer and to reduce the human and economic burden of disease worldwide. For more information visit www.pfizer.co.nz

Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble's Health Care business unit is currently $5 billion dollar sales business with over-the-counter healthcare products like Prilosec OTC, Vicks, PuR, ClearBlue, Pepto-Bismol and Metamucil as well as Rx products. Today, we have on-the-ground operations in 22 countries including the U.S., Canada and all major markets throughout Europe and Asia. As part of our continued strategy of Connect + Develop, we are actively seeking partnerships, technologies and product innovations in the areas of respiratory health including prevention and intervention, water purification, in-home diagnostics and new over-the-counter treatments for gastrointestinal ailments.

Texas Instruments

TI is helping shape technology to improve the quality and accessibility of medical equipment to revolutionize health care in the 21st century and beyond. With its full range of analog, and embedded processing products, from building blocks to complete semiconductor solutions, plus systems insight, global support infrastructure, advanced process technology and medical industry involvement, TI is helping make innovative medical electronics more flexible, affordable and accessible. TI’s experience in diverse markets such as wireless communications, consumer electronics, automotive and aerospace enables engineers to meet increasing needs for higher speeds, higher precision, lower power and smaller equipment while maintaining the high standards for quality and reliability that the medical market demands. www.ti.com/medical