Responsible for guiding the company’s worldwide growth strategy. Collaborate with the CEO, the executive team, and key leaders across the business to ensure ability to maintain and grow the company’s position in life sciences. Directly manage the company’s mergers and acquisitions, external technology sourcing and business transformation functions, including oversight of all equity investments, acquisitions, and integration planning.

As General Manager, Nucleic Acid Therapeutics my role is to create and drive the strategy for the Nucleic Acid Therapeutics business segment. Full P&L responsibility. Manage all aspects of business including: building a high performing business team, advancing an innovative product portfolio, driving demand through impactful sales and marketing campaigns, collaborating with operational leaders to provide high quality products, and evaluating new business opportunities with respect to technologies or channels.

Provide strategic leadership to LSG’s senior management regarding the partnering strategy to be followed by the group in the therapeutics field with focus on next-generation gene, transcriptional and cellular therapies. Responsibilities include guidance to manufacturing, regulatory and intellectual property teams to optimize/maximize operational capabilities, technology and intellectual property assets to enable our partner’s drug development and commercialization efforts.Lead the Therapeutic team and cross-functional teams ( engaging legal, manufacturing, regulatory, R&D) within company to source, develop and close targeted business transactions. Drive all phases of business development, including market research analysis, company due diligence, deal valuation and evaluation of partners, technologies and products. Negotiate terms and conditions of business transactions including development, commercial supply and out license agreements to ensure the company maximizes return/drive growth.

Lead the business and technology partnering efforts for LIFE's Cellular Medicine business and Bioproduction platform. Develop strategy and associated cross functional business planning in support of strategy execution. Identify, evaluate, negotiate and execute licenses, collaboration/development and supply partnerships for new "for commercial use" business opportunities in drug discovery, development and commercialization.