Saira Ramasastry has over 25 years of experience in the life sciences, successfully building companies as an advisor, board member, and operational executive. She is the Managing Partner of Life Sciences Advisory, a firm she founded to provide strategic advice to life sciences companies. Previously, she was an investment banker with Merrill Lynch & Co., where she helped establish the biotech practice to support capital market and strategic transactions. Ms. Ramasastry is a guest lecturer for the Bioscience Enterprise Program at the University of Cambridge and a Health Innovator Fellow at the Aspen Institute. She earned her B.A. in Economics with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and holds advanced degrees in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford and in Management Studies from the University of Cambridge.
