Alexander Vang
Senior Manager of Laboratory Operations & Alliance Management Invivyd
Alex currently serves as the Senior Manager of Laboratory Operations and Alliance Management at Invivyd, Inc., a role he has held since 2022. In this position, he supports both internal and external operations to drive advancements in Discovery. Prior to joining Invivyd, Alex was the Laboratory Operations Manager at Keros Therapeutics, where he managed wet lab and vivarium operations while supporting a team of 15+ scientists. Before transitioning into biotech, he began his career at VA Providence Healthcare, focusing on pulmonary hypertension and right heart dysfunction.
Throughout his career, Alex has leveraged empathy through his cross-functional experiences to refine his skills in collaborative influence and executive presence to align both internal and external stakeholders, optimizing business operations. He holds an MBA from Boston University and an A.B. in Anthropology from Brown University.
Alex also serves as a member on the Board of Directors since 2021 for a local non-profit community organization in Providence, RI, and assumed the office of Treasurer since 2022.
Seminars
- Assessing how to consolidate on multiple pieces of equipment and take advantage of service agreements to cut costs and operate lean
- Embedding RFP scoring for high risk and valuable assets to evaluate and compare vendor proposals, making cost-effective purchasing decisions
- Allocating insourcing vs outsourcing operations to make smart investments
Learn from senior lab operations professionals how to forecast operational budgets with embedded flexibility, futureproofing against external changes and remaining conservative with spend.
This workshop will help you learn to better visualize and accurately allocate budget for the future of your operations, to mitigate risk and preserve capital.
- Collaborating with scientists to forecast future scientific growth to ensure appropriate budget allocations
- Breaking down and visualizing cost of preventive maintenance (PMs), equipment servicing, and consumables procurement to contribute to budget forecasting
- Undertaking life cycle assessments for assets to understand e capex budget requirements and map out accordingly
- Understanding how to best account for unprecedented tariffs on COGs and source within target spend when budgeting to minimize risk
