Creating A Culture of Virtue at Work
Join us for an insightful discussion on Business Ethics and Virtue.
This session is hosted in partnership with Venture Café Cambridge's Thursday Gathering Program. We are excited to welcome Vincent Ling, a distinguished leader in the biotech industry and Chief Business Officer at Morphocell, who will lead a thought-provoking conversation with Peter Pin, President, and William Bowman, Co-Founder & CEO of Arete Consulting Corp.
Together, they will delve into critical questions, including:
What does it truly mean to establish a company grounded in virtue?
Is there a financial impact associated with integrating virtue into business operations?
How can individuals cultivate virtuous behavior in their personal and professional lives?
Have you ever faced the temptation to compromise your ethics in practice?
In what ways can a company with virtuous employees leverage this as a competitive advantage in the marketplace?
How do virtuous practices enhance employee retention, satisfaction, and overall productivity?
Speakers
Peter Pin is a veteran Executive with over 30 years of experience in the telecommunications industry encompassing sales, engineering and business development. Peter has served in a variety of roles within the information technology space, covering markets across North America, South America and the Caribbean. He currently is President of the Arete Consulting Corporation, a company that uses a virtues-based approach to transforming corporate culture and improving financial performance. Prior to that, Peter served as Vice President for Verizon Enterprise Solutions in the Public Sector. In this role, he led business development and sales activities in support of all Civilian Agencies across the U.S. federal government and spanning a broad portfolio of services to include intelligent networking, cloud computing, mobile workforce, and cybersecurity solutions. Peter currently teaches at George Washington University, the Catholic University of America and regularly lectures at Georgetown University. He mentors young professionals and veterans on navigating business challenges and reaching their career goals. He is also co-founder and on the board of the West Papua Human Rights Center located in Northern Virginia. Pin earned his Master’s degree in International Management from The American Graduate School of International Management and holds a bachelor’s degree in business from West Virginia University.
Bill Bowman has led companies as President or CEO for over 25 years. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of the Arete Consulting Corp, a Washington DC-based firm that helps companies determine the human virtues most important to their customers and then provides training to employees to help them practice those virtues. Before that Bill served as the Dean of the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America. Bill was also involved in three entrepreneurial ventures. In 1982 he co-founded Spinnaker Software Corporation, one of the nation’s first educational software companies. After selling Spinnaker to The Learning Company, Bill began the operations of Israel-based Logal Software, Inc., another educational software company where he served as president and which he helped take public in 1996. His third venture was also in the educational field. In 1978 he co-founded The Montrose School, an independent day school for girls in grades six through twelve located in Medfield, Massachusetts, which was voted as one of Boston Magazine’s Top 10 Private Schools. Bill is an engineering honors graduate of Northwestern University and received an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. He is married to Leigh Bowman, and they are the parents of nine children. They live in Boston.
Moderator : Vincent Ling
For over 31 years, Dr. Ling led successful groups in diverse biotechnology fields including cell devices, protein engineering, biosimilars, stem cell differentiation, checkpoint inhibitors and molecular evolution of antibody scaffolds. He has held leadership positions in large, mid-size and start-up environments, creating practical biotherapeutics. Dr. Ling currently serves as Chief Business Officer at Morphocell Technologies, a liver regeneration biotech company. Prior to Morphocell, he was employed by Takeda Pharmaceuticals leading external innovation efforts involving novel drug delivery technologies. Dr. Ling also held leadership positions at Neurotech Pharmaceuticals, Dragonfly Sciences, Adnexus (Compound Therapeutics), Genetics Institute and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. He currently holds advisory roles to numerous universities and non-profits including the Gates Foundation and ARPA-H. Dr. Ling earned his BA at UC Berkeley, MS and PhD at University of Illinois and completed his post-doctoral training at Harvard Biological Laboratories.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to explore how ethics and virtues can pave the way for a more responsible, human-centered future in business. Join us in shaping a dialogue that prioritizes integrity and purpose in the corporate world.
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