As life is filled with ups and downs, it is the reaction that makes the difference. Success and failures are parts of the same coin, every moment of failure is an opportunity to start over. If there is no fall, how will a person rise? With similar falls Jack Kavanaugh, a renowned doctor, and a businessman has an inspiring story.
Jack Kavanaugh has spent a decade pursuing his career as a dentist. Unfortunately, he met with an accident that stopped him from continuing dentistry, but it didn’t shatter his attitude towards life. He went to the University of California, Los Angeles to earn his M.B.A. degree after which, he worked with a former partner and they formed an M.B.A. consulting firm, International Strategy Consulting Group, in 1984.
Despite making a career in the private equity, Jack Kavanaugh initiated his steps towards his M.D. degree from the University of Southern California and his surgical residency from Jules Stein Institute, U.C.L.A. Till 2008, he served as a part-time visiting professor educating the eye surgery at the University of Southern California. While he was in the first year of his residency, he founded Amerident, a provider for health care service which was honored with over 30 awards in community service. It was also bestowed with a state congressional medal of honor for their work with infants as well.
In 1999, he founded a computer support and hosting company, Tech Team, where he was appointed as the CEO and Chairman as well till the last month of his residency. Since 2000, he served as a member of the board for a biotechnology firm, Calhoun Vision, Inc. and as Chairman from 2008 to 2012.
In 2008, he founded ZetaRx Biosciences, Inc., the firm at the cutting edge of immunotherapy. He held the posts of both Chairman and CEO till June 2012 and then continued as a consultant for the board. He is also a co-founder of Novonco Therapeutics, Inc., a company that focuses on cancer therapeutics. He has also co-founded Super Metalix, Inc., and Nanotech Energy, Inc.
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