Stephane’s current role in External Innovation includes identification and assessment of new technologies, triage incoming opportunities, negotiation, transaction, and management of external relationships that provide access to technologies and research expertise to help advance projects in R&D portfolio. Prior to joining Zoetis, Stephane was in the Strategic Marketing group at IDEXX Laboratories, where he was responsible for identifying unmet market needs and new technologies and for developing business cases for new point-of-care and reference lab diagnostic product concepts for companion animals. Stephane has a PhD in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology from Stony Brook University, an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and received his Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) credential.