Diapason Consulting

Your innovation is unique

  • And so are you
  • .
  • Our support is finely tuned
  • to you and your project

N.(o).A.R.C

  • Not (only) a Regulatory Consultant
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  • Engineering | Science | Management
  • Manufacturing | SW dev | Quality
  • .
  • You have to cover them all
  • We have your back

Agile is our middle name

  • Your priorities will change
  • So plan for that
  • You pivot, we adapt

Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs, it is never too early to integrate good design and development practices, quality management and ethics&regulatory considerations in your global strategy. It does not mean you need a certified QMS this week and a TGA registration tomorrow. You may not even need them at all if your product is not regulated. But now is the right time to understand whether you are regulated, and if so, what is the scope of these regulations. It is also the right time to design the next steps of your development and growth in a way that give investors confidence that you are on top of your strategy. Plan and manage not only the technical steps of your value proposition development - but also plan for your commercial, clinical and regulatory pathways

Manufacturers

Whether you are working on a new product submission, need a solid independent review of your processes or a formal internal audit, some help on a risk management committee, or are considering a significant transformation/growth project, we can help. Give us a call and we can discuss how I can either help you directly, or else introduce you to other experts in my extensive network

Investors

Medtech, digital health, wellness & wearables, mental health apps… These applicaitons are fast growing multi-billion dollars market, driven by mind-blowing innovations and the promises of a better health and wellbeing for billions of users and patients. Behind these innovations are talented entrepreneurs who repeatedly invent, build and test new solutions. What lies ahead of these entrepreneurs is complex. A good growth strategy needs to be evidence-driven, but evidence is expensive, more particularly in the regulated clinical world. Diapason can help investors in their risk assessment - pre- or post- investment - with a review of the founder’s plans and their early positions in terms of regulatory strategy, quality&compliance culture, evidence&documentation or process management excellence. Call us to discuss how we could participate in your due diligence exercises.

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The Entrepreneur, the Expert and the NDA

on April 20, 2025

I recently went through a very tricky challenge whilst mentoring early stage founders. A #NDA, inappropriately written and sent in the wrong circumstances, triggered a surprisingly negative email response from an expert I knew as courteous and generous with their time and expertise.

Thankfully, we were able to solve this situation and we had a very productive discussion, far beyond my most optimistic expectations.

We also all learned from this painful mistake. We learned of the hidden costs of NDAs, and of their complete uselessness most of the time. We all agreed that their defacto use a prerequisite for any discussion in entrepreneurship has more to do with cargo-culting and fake expertise (reminded me of the mention on Linkedin of “advisors” in Sydney getting 20% of equity from founders) than with any “Innovation and IP Strategy”.

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Beehive

on June 16, 2024

a door decorated with a drawing of honeycomb and a bee

As you may know, I have not been in Australia much these past months, working and living primarily in Europe, Maastricht more accurately.

The work for which I was primarily here just terminated. Thankfully, during this time I have not been only working, but I have also discovered and involved myself in the rich and diverse local and regional community of musicians, international students and other creative minds of all ages. I have decided to continue this involvement with something a bit different from my usual medtech advisory activities. Stay tune - I will very shortly anounce what #Beehive is about.

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SXSW Sydney

on October 18, 2023

South By South West.

Sydney.

First time in the South Hemisphere.

Lots of #hype for sure.

It’s #big. Huge actually. I’ve visited more venues in Sydney in the past 3 days than in the last 3 years. A great #showcase for #Sydney #TechCentral and all their partners.

It’s #loud. I like #loud, somehow…

It’s #fast. Very fast. Trust me on this one, I listen to podcasts at 1.3X speed in average. One has to be super realistic with their #time management and #FOMO expectations.

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Gratuite du Credit (In French)

on June 11, 2023

I wrote this review of Gratuite du Credit back in 2007 or so, whilst living in New Zealand, for an website that has since disappeared, “bookine.org” The topic came up recently with a friend, and the host was kind enough to fish it for me :)

Adolescent gauchisant, par la suite jeune adulte AAA, non pas Ancien Alcoolique Anonyme (ceux qui ont de la bouteille LOL), quoique, mais Abstentionniste Anarcho-Apolitique, par le hasard des rencontres je me suis lié dernièrement d’amitié avec un membre des “instances” dirigeantes du parti Libertarianz. Plus connu dans les pays anglo-saxons qu’en France (quoique, vu de NZ du moins, ça ait l’air de changer un poil), cette mouvance prône ce qu’on pourrait qualifier grossièrement d’Anarcho Capitalisme (ne leur dites pas que je vous ai dit ça…). Pour une définition plus juste, ou en tous cas « reconnue par eux », je vous conseille Nolan comme point de départ. Pour en revenir aux faits, lors du soirée avec mes amis Libertarianz (y sont marrants avec leur T-shirts « Love Freedom, Fuck the State »), entre deux verres (ou plutôt vingt, la tendance « Bibinne » étant substanciellement représentée au sein de ce parti) et une Jam Session Velours-Souterraine, la discussion s’est tournée vers les auteurs Français ayant influencé ou combattu cette tendance, et notamment Bastiat et Proudhon. Et là, se rendre compte qu’un Kiwi connait mieux les auteurs Français qu’un Frenchy du cru (je suis né dans la même ville que Proudhon en plus), et ben ça fait mal au cul…Donc session rattrapage, d’où la lecture de la correspondance ici chroniquée.

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