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From Big Pharma to biotech—and a globe-spanning journey along the way—Yvonne Greenstreet, this year’s Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association Woman of the Year, is right where she wants to be: leading efforts to advance “bold ideas” in RNAi therapeutics into life-changing gains for patients.

Damien Bailly, president of established markets at Astellas, discusses why partnerships and collaborations are a critical organizational—and wider ecosystem—imperative in ensuring that patients have access to the medicines they need.

Paige Bingham has focused her career on improving clinical research operations and logistics, and not just ways to ease the burden for investigators and teams running the trials—but also for the patients involved in them.

Harpreet Gill

Harpreet Gill, vice president of real-world solutions - project management at ICON, discussesthe progress and challenges in advancing data-driven tools and approaches in decentralized clinical trials, where ongoing education remains paramount.

Lisa Conte

Finding that Spark

Lisa Conte, founder, president, and CEO of Jaguar Health, discusses how a climb up Mount Kilimanjaro would vault her to her true career calling—and spark a decades-long quest to accelerate breakthroughs in plant-based pharmaceuticals and supportive care.

Stephen Rivera

Stephen Rivera, vice president, global technical accounting advisory services and policy, Johnson & Johnson, capitalizes on his lively personality—and a courageous career journey—to bring people together to shape the future of biopharma.

Lisa LeCointe-Cephas

Lisa LeCointe-Cephas, SVP, chief ethics and compliance officer and office of general counsel, human health, Merck, uses her unique style of leadership—stop, drop, and roll—while elevating voices that need to be heard.

Wendy Short Bartie

From public defender to spearheading the adoption of innovative drugs, Wendy Short Bartie, senior VP and general manager for the hematology and cell therapy division at Bristol Myers Squibb, has remained a steadfast patient advocate—working to fulfill unmet medical needs and bring treatments to as many people as possible.

Kabir Nath

COMPASS Pathways’ CEO, Kabir Nath, has a clear vision for psychedelics—and is leading the way with the company’s focus on psilocybin and efforts to separate the science from the hype.

Jag Dosanjh, president of US neuroscience and eye care for AbbVie and HBA’s 2023 honorable mentor of the year, shares what leadership qualities are most important in today’s “people industry”—and the impact more voices can make in stakeholder communication and messaging.

Christi Shaw, this year’s Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) Woman of the Year, stays true to her beliefs—and life mission—of helping others.

Chronicling Davidek Herron’s career crossover from playing professional basketball to leading Roche’s digital transformation and scale-up efforts—and the team lessons learned along the way.

Starting out with limited pharma business knowledge, how the lessons learned and realizations made helped to forge a destined—and globe-spanning—leadership path for Christophe Bourdon, where today, as CEO of LEO Pharma, he is tasked with steering the longtime company’s return to profitability.

Rajesh Rajpal, MD

Pharm Exec details the career of Rajesh K. Rajpal, MD, the chief medical officer and global head of clinical and medical affairs at J&J Vision.

Natalie Bickford, chief people officer, Sanofi

Natalie Bickford, chief people officer at Sanofi, reveals how she approaches the employee experience, which ultimately influences employee retention, and discusses the importance of a corporate DE&I strategy in those efforts.

Kimberly Moran, head of rare diseases in the US for UCB, started off working in medicine but quickly learned the importance of the business side of industry—and its role in helping improve the diagnosis and access paths for underserved patient segments.

Christi Shaw, CEO of Kite, is working hard to bring cell therapy to the masses, fueled by her family’s personal experiences with cancer.