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J. Mike Smith: Managing Principal and Founder
Back West, Inc. is the management consulting firm for J. Mike Smith.
The San Francisco based-firm provides consulting (executive/leadership coaching, team startup formation, leadership team building) for select individuals and organizations ranging from pre-IPO startups to Fortune 500 corporations..
Representative clients include startups
such as Atara Biotherapeutics, Good Medicine Consult & Advocacy, Orexigen, Inc. and Calixa Theraupeutics, Inc. to established smaller-to-mid-sized companies such as Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Asia Alternatives Management, LLC, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB Group) as well as Fortune 500-type companies such as Synopsys, Inc., Cypress Semiconductor, Genentech, and Gilead Sciences.
Back West has clients in Europe and Asia as well as North America; most clients are located in the San Francisco Bay area.