Andrea Yip Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

• Luna helped scientists plan missions to space and served as the global biotech channel partner and country contact (Canada) for Blue Origin. Our goal was to advance health for humanity by accelerating scientific.
• Grew a 0-to-1 pipeline and closed Blue’s first commercial payload for New Shepard in Canada. Designed a national commercial spaceflight competition around the payload, engaging over 600 participants.
• Developed and executed GTM strategy for commercial suborbital payload sales involving customer discovery, sourcing and qualifying leads, and brokering partnerships across academia, government, and industry.
• Sourced, launched, and partnered with Johnson & Johnson and NASA on a multi-year space strategy.
• Published a joint white paper with Blue Origin on commercial microgravity R&D.
• Sourced and led a strategic initiative with Virgin Galactic to design their commercial astronaut journey and customer experience at Spaceport America.

San Francisco, California, US

• Spearheaded the launch of a successful partnership program & growth strategy, where I sourced and stood up 4 partnerships for a series B SaaS startup in under 10 months. This included channel partners for a new use.
• Managed an inside sales team of 4, driving success through effective coaching and management.
• Reported to Chief Revenue Officer & Chief Executive Officer.

Kent, WA, US

Luna Design and Innovation was the global biotech partner and country contact (Canada) for BLUE ORIGIN.

New Brunswick, NJ, US

• Management consultant with Johnson & Johnson leading cross-sector product and service innovation with patients, healthcare providers and executives across consumer, medical device and pharma.
• Managed projects that ranged from envisioning future product pipelines to leading creative strategy workshops across Asia, Africa, & South America to creating a training system for a new medical device.
• Recognized with two J&J Encore awards for exceptional service.

New Brunswick, NJ, US

• Management consultant with Acro Service Corp. providing services for Johnson & Johnson leading cross-sector product and service innovation with patients, healthcare providers and executives across consumer, medical.

• Developed and successfully crowdfunded $6K+ for the publication of the "Period Coloring Book”, a book featured in Teen Vogue, supported by Planned Parenthood, and gained recognition as a K12 classroom resource.
• Invited to the 2017 Aspen Ideas Festival as a Spotlight Health Scholar.

Toronto, On, CA

• Designed, implemented, and coordinated campus wellness solutions with and for students & staff at OCAD and Ryerson University.
• Initiated and published on the first post-secondary mental health service mapping project in Canada, led OCAD’s mental health steering committee & created OCAD's first crisis protocol.

• Created Healthy Reads – "Reddit for health practitioners” – from concept to launch with over 2,000 users to become the second largest online public health community.
• Led customer discovery, learned to code to launch MVP, and grew a team of 7.
• Participated in Canadian Technology Accelerator to scale operations in the US.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Led digital product/service research initiatives at Dalla Lana School of Public Health with youth, for youth, partnering with academia, government, and non-profits; programs focused on mental health and tobacco &.
• Responsible for managing partnerships with community groups and institutions.

Kunming City, Yunnan Province, CN

• Led a study in rural China assessing health conditions for villagers who were geographically relocated and at-risk for HIV, conducting observational research and interviews with villagers. This project was completed as.
• Presented research results at the China Health Economics Institute in Beijing.

Calgary, Alberta, CA

• Designed, facilitated, and coordinated city-wide sexual health education projects for youth and young adults, scheduling sexual health programming each month with community partners.
• Partnered with the University of Calgary to complete an independent study on best practices in youth health promotion.
• Note: I worked here when the organization was known as the "Calgary Sexual Health Centre".

Master Of Public Health, Health Promotion

Bachelor Of Science With Distinction, Biological Sciences