Kendalle Burlin O’Connell relishes a challenge. That’s just what she got her first day leading the purchasing consortium in 2008 with the company now known as MassBio – when a vendor said she was “not the right person for this job” because she lacked experience in biotechnology.

Burlin O’Connell, an attorney, ended up negotiating what’s now MassBio’s largest supplier agreement. “I think that because I wasn't from industry, I was more brave and more willing to take risks in making a really big change at the time,” said Burlin O’Connell, now CEO and president of MassBio, a premiere biotech trade organization.

Burlin O’Connell details her experience with the company’s “amazing team” in this episode of the PNC C-Speak podcast.

Listen to the episode to hear more about:

•The company’s rapid growth in the span of a few years.
•MassBio’s commitment to DEI.
•Burlin O’Connell’s “hobby and guilty pleasure.”

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