Professional Selling and Sales Management

John Westman has led commercial efforts, including marketing, sales, business development, and strategic partnerships resulting in improved business results for health-care companies. He is currently Vice President (VP) for Citius Pharmaceuticals. Prior to working at Citius, he was co-founder and executive vice president for Novellus Inc., a biotechnology start-up that developed transformational therapies for devastating diseases. Westman teaches at Harvard Extension School, Harvard Professional & Executive Development, and Boston College. Prior positions include corporate VP for Fresenius Medical Care's hospital business, general manager for NxStage Medical's critical care business, and VP of business development for PharMetrics, Inc., a venture capital-backed pharmaceutical information start-up that was sold to IMSHealth. Westman was chief revenue officer at Decision Resources, where he led global marketing, sales, and customer service functions. He held leadership positions at Baxter Healthcare's renal division in global and North American marketing and sales, and was a Bain and Baxter consultant. He has a BA in French and English from Colgate University, an MA in international relations from the University of Wisconsin, an MBA in marketing and finance from Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and was a Fulbright Scholar. Westman is on the Global Trade Advisory Board for ThistleFarms.org, was on the board for Athletes Serving the Community and the Alliance for Healthcare Strategy and Marketing, and ran the United Way campaign for Baxter's renal division.

Michael McCarthy holds a masters of applied positive psychology (MAPP) from the University of Pennsylvania as well as a bachelors of science in finance and management from New York University (NYU). As a six-time serial entrepreneur, McCarthy started his first business at the age of 16 and his first three weeks of sales financed his freshman year at NYU. From 1994-2004, he was the number one stock market timer in the United States. After a brief period of early retirement, McCarthy founded Budi Products in 2010, a food company designing brain-healthy gourmet snacks, which was acquired in 2015. McCarthy now focuses on teaching entrepreneurship, sales, leadership, and public speaking. He developed the Leadership Sailing Program for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan Executive Education program in 2016 and is the founder of Boston Executive Training, a Boston based consulting firm. He is the author of Harnessing the Power of Fear, a book to help reduce the fear of public speaking, as well as How to Sell.