Michael Diamond, GBAC Sr. Director, is leading efforts of Innovation, Technology and GBAC-TIPS for GBAC. Michael spent a decade in executive positions with commercial cleaning companies before founding The Infection Prevention Strategy (TIPS). As Executive Director of TIPS, Diamond has worked with entrepreneurs, inventors, corporations, organizations, and governments around the world to vet, validate, market, and promote promising new technologies and processes in global health. Diamond also created and developed the TIPS Journal, TIPS Deep Dive Interviews series, TIPS Science to Market program, TIPS Master Series educational platform, and most notably the TIPS Strategic Partnership Initiative and conference series across the USA, Canada, and UK.