Senior-level business development and licensing executive with significant record of success in both big pharma and biotech settings. Broad cross functional background in licensing, R&D, new product planning, finance and strategy. Effective leader of multi disciplinary teams. Focus on building businesses from the buy side and sell side in both small and multi-billion dollar organizations, with experience in raising capital through venture capital financing. Transactional experience and cultural intelligence gained with entities in Europe, Japan and India. Highly accomplished at building and managing relationships with European, US and Japanese biotech, pharmaceutical and academic institutions.