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Daniel Behr

I’m an innovation catalyst and entrepreneurial leader skilled at commercializing inventions and ideas to address customers’ unmet needs and to generate enterprise growth. I bring a unique combination of experiences in business & innovation strategy, startups, venture capital, business development, and university technology transfer.

Using innovation as a lever for growth and value creation is a common thread in my career. In some cases this involves finding or building pathways to enable the translation of new technologies and ideas into viable products and solutions; in other cases it involves the discovery of customers’ unmet needs that can be addressed with innovations such as new products and services or even simply with more finely-tuned messaging.

My innovation expertise is industry and product agnostic – for example, most recently I’ve applied it in early-stage biotech, performance fabrics, and specialty plastic films. In prior years I helped bring products to markets in materials science and industrial instrumentation.

Arehy Sand

Aryeh joined the TAP Advisors Health Care group in April 2016. Prior to joining TAP, Mr. Sand was a senior banker in Mizuho’s Health Care Investment Banking group in New York, where he was an integral part of the coverage team for all of the firm’s major health care clients, including Allergan, Amgen, Biogen, Danaher, Express Scripts, Gilead, and Mallinckrodt.

Mr. Sand has extensive M&A advisory and financing expertise, and played meaningful roles in several important transactions including Actavis’ $70bn acquisition of Allergan, Actavis’ $28bn acquisition of Forest Laboratories, Mallinckrodt’s $690MM divestiture of its Nuclear Imaging Business, BWXT Medical’s JV with Global Medical Solutions, Alora Pharma’s $170 MMM acquisition of Osmotica’s legacy business, CutisPharma’s sale to NovaQuest Capital Management, ROMEG Therapeutics licensing of US rights to Gloperba to Avion Pharmaceuticals, SWK Holdings’ restructuring and sale of its interests in ABT Molecular, and Upsher-Smith Laboratories’ divestiture of its women’s health brands.