Our Team

Our Leadership

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Andrew McDonald, Ph.D

Founding Partner

Andrew McDonald is Founding Partner and CEO of LifeSci Partners, where he leads the firm’s overall business strategy. Prior to founding LifeSci...

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Michael Rice

Founding Partner

Michael Rice has experience in portfolio management, corporate management, investment banking and capital markets. Prior to co-founding LifeSci Advisors...

Our Team

Relationship Managers

Ashley R. Robinson

Managing Director United States
Ashley R. Robinson has over 20 years of experience in institutional equity finance, with...
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Bob Yedid

Managing Director United States
Bob Yedid has 30 years of healthcare experience as a buy-side analyst, portfolio manager,...
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Bruce Mackle

Managing Director United States
Bruce Mackle brings nearly 25 years of healthcare-dedicated experience in the financial industry on...
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Charles Padala

Managing Director United States
Chuck Padala brings over 25 years of Institutional Equity Sales, Trading and ECM experience...
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Chris Calabrese

Managing Director United States
Chris Calabrese has over 20+ years in institutional equity sales, with a focus in...
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Corey Davis

Managing Director United States
Prior to joining LifeSci Advisors as a Managing Director and Relationship Manager in 2019,...
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Dan Ferry

Managing Director United States
Dan Ferry joins LifeSci Advisors from Guggenheim Securities, where he specialized in connecting healthcare...
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Guillaume van Renterghem

Managing Director Europe
Guillaume has more than 15 years’ experience in life sciences and finance. He worked...
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Irina Koffler

Managing Director United States
Irina Koffler has been working as a relationship manager and in corporate communications with...
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Jeff Seo

Managing Director, Head of APAC Region United States
Jeff Seo has over 20 years of Wall Street and healthcare industry experience and...
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Jeremy Feffer

Managing Director United States
Jeremy brings more than 20 years of experience in healthcare, both as a sell-side...
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Joyce Allaire

Managing Director United States
Joyce Allaire has more than 25 years of healthcare IR and capital markets experience....
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Kevin Gardner

Managing Director United States
Kevin Gardner brings over 22 years of experience in Institutional Equity Sales covering numerous...
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Mike Moyer

Managing Director United States
Mike Moyer spent 18 years on Wall Street in institutional sales at Leerink, Summer...
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PJ Kelleher

Vice President United States
PJ Kelleher is a Vice President in LifeSci’s Boston office. Prior to joining the...
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Sandya von der Weid

Associate Director Europe
Sandya has over 10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, working...
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Steve Halper

Managing Director United States
Before joining LifeSci Advisors, Steven Halper was a sell side research analyst for more...
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Tim McCarthy

Managing Director United States
Tim McCarthy brings over 21 years of investment experience across all healthcare sectors and...
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Corporate Communications

Alexandra Folias PhD

Managing Director United States
Alex is an experienced medical communications and strategy professional with over 15 years of...
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Brian Ritchie

Managing Director United States
Brian Ritchie has over 20 years of healthcare investor relations and communications experience. He...
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Chris Howerton PhD

Director, IR Communications United States
Chris Howerton has 15 years’ experience working in the biotechnology sector, having served as...
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Christopher Chu

Director, Corporate Communications United States
Christopher Chu brings over 20 years of experience providing comprehensive investor relations programming and...
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Dory Kurowski

Director, Investor Communications United States
Dory A. (Lombardo) Kurowski has over 15 years of experience conducting corporate and investor...
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Gaia Vasiliver-Shamis PhD

Director, IR Communications United States
Gaia Vasiliver-Shamis has over 14 years of experience spanning industry, start-up, academia and government. ...
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Garth M Russell

Managing Director, Corporate Communications United States
Garth Russell has approximately 20 years of healthcare IR and corporate communications experience. He...
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Glenn Garmont

Managing Director, Investor Relations Corporate Communications United States
Glenn Garmont brings to LifeSci more than two decades of experience, not only in...
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Jessica Lafferty

Creative Director United States
Jess Lafferty, the Creative Director at LifeSci Advisors leads our in-house design team and...
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John Fraunces

Director, Corporate Communications United States
John P. Fraunces, Jr., has over 20 years of investment experience within the health...
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Joost Bakker

Managing Director, Content Visualization Europe
Joost is an expert in content visualization. He has over 20 years of experience...
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Joyce Lonergan

Managing Director United States
Joyce A. Lonergan has over 30 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry from...
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Kristy Grabowski PhD

Managing Director United States
Kristy Grabowski has over 18 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry and agency-affiliated medical...
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Lauren Marek PhD

Associate Director United States
Lauren Marek is a creative and thoughtful science communication professional with broad expertise that...
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Mari Purpura PhD

Director, Corporate Communications United States
Mari presents a strong science background, corporate communications expertise and industry knowledge. Prior tojoining...
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Michael Wood

Managing Director United States
Michael Wood has 20 years experience advising the biotechnology and life science industries, having...
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Paul Arndt, MBA

Managing Director, Corporate Communications United States
Paul Arndt is an investor relations and corporate communications executive with nearly 30 years...
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Roxana Piotrowska PhD

Director, IR Communications United States
Roxana has extensive communications and academic research experience in diverse areas including nanomaterials, peptides,...
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Sarah Scouten PhD

Managing Director United States
Dr. Sarah Scouten is an experienced Investor Relations professional with a diverse skill set...
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Thomas Johnson

Director, Corporate Communications United States
Tom Johnson is seasoned professional with 20 years of experience managing internal and external...
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Vicki Campbell

Creative Director United States
Vicki Campbell, the Creative Director of LifeSci Advisors brings over 20 years of biomedical...
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Associate Relationship Managers

Alexandra Schuman

Associate Relationship Manager United States
Alexandra Schuman is an Associate Relationship Manager at LifeSci Partners. Prior to joining LifeSci, she...
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Andreas Mittmann

Associate Relationship Manager United States
Andreas Mittmann is an Associate Relationship Manager at LifeSci Advisors. Prior to joining LifeSci,...
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Brian Mullen

Associate Relationship Manager United States
Brian Mullen an Associate Relationship Manager in LifeSci’s Advisors, LLC. Prior to joining the...
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Dean Schwartz

Associate Relationship Manager United States
Dean Schwartz is an Associate at LifeSci Advisors in New York. He holds a...
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Ilana Koppel

Associate Relationship Manager United States
Ilana Koppel is an Associate Relationship Manager at LifeSci Advisors. She joined the firm...
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Jack McAleese

Associate Relationship Manager United States
Jack McAleese is an Associate Relationship Manager in LifeSci’s New York office. Prior to...
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Kara Celano

Associate Relationship Manager United States
Kara Celano is an Associate Relationship Manager at LifeSci Advisors. Prior to joining the...
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Kate Babcock

Associate Relationship Manager United States
Kate Babcock is an Associate Relationship Manager at LifeSci Advisors, LLC. Prior to joining...
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Katherine Barry

Associate Relationship Manager United States
Katherine Barry is an Associate Relationship Manager at LifeSci Advisors, LLC. Prior to joining...
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Megan Grant

Associate Relationship Manager United States
Prior to joining LifeSci, Megan worked as an associate consultant for a boutique consultancy focused...
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Nick Kerrigan

Associate Relationship Manager United States
Nick Kerrigan is an Associate Relationship Manager with LifeSci Advisors, LLC. Previously, Nick has...
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Sam Matel

Associate Relationship Manager United States
Sam Matel is an Associate Relationship Manager at LifeSci Advisors, LLC. Prior to joining...
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Summerlee Allen

Associate Relationship Manager United States
Summerlee Allen is an Associate Relationship Manager at LifeSci Advisors. She originally joined the...
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Troy Williams

Associate Relationship Manger United States
Troy is an Associate Relationship Manager working on the Investor Relations team at LifeSci...
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Operations

Aminah Sayid

Director, Human Resources United States
Aminah Sayid is an experienced Human Resources professional with a proven track record of...
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Atonu Ali

IT Operations Help Desk Technician United States
Atonu brings experience from various industries with a focus on troubleshooting and operation. He...
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Carlton Z Laroe

Associate, Client Deliverables United States
Carl Laroe is an Associate at LifeSci Advisors in New York, where he is...
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Daniel Chang

Senior IT Analyst United States
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Joanna Chinnici

Executive Assistant United States
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Lillian Rosenthal

Head of Data & Analytics United States
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Lindsey Hohengarten

Senior Salesforce Administrator United States
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Macalasdair MacDonald

Director of Operations United States
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Corporate Access

Alyse Bartiromo

Vice President, Corporate Events United States
Alyse has over 12 years of experience in corporate access, managing roadshows within the...
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Aida Trabucco

Managing Director, Corporate Access Europe
Aida has over 20 years experience in corporate access, managing roadshows in the UK...
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Alex Starr

High Net Worth Non-Deal Roadshow Lead United States
Alex Starr is a Non-Deal Roadshow Lead for the High Net Worth division. Joined...
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Angela Sodano Xenakis

Vice President, Corporate Access United States
Angela brings more than 15 years of experience in Corporate Access. She began her...
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Anne Chofflet

Managing Director, Corporate Access Europe
Anne has over 20 years’ experience in institutional equity sales. She started her career...
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Asia Rinkova

Associate Israel
Asia Rinkova is a Corporate Access and Investor relations Associate on LifeSci’s Israel team....
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Brian Hicks

Managing Director United States
Brian Hicks joined LifeSci after 25+ years as sell side veteran of Wall Street. He has...
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Casey DeBaecke

Managing Director, Corporate Access United States
Casey DeBaecke has more than 25 years of experience in Institutional Equity Sales. She...
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Christian Kirsebom

Managing Director United States
Christian Kirsebom has over 20 years of experience on Wall Street in corporate finance,...
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Christopher Nardo

Managing Director United States
Chris Nardo specializes in working with private companies, primarily offering strategic advice to venture...
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Eric J. Ribner

Managing Director, Relationship Manager, Head of High Net Worth United States
Eric Ribner is a Managing Director and Relationship Manager of LifeSci’s Non-Deal Roadshow (NDR)...
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Floriane Meyer

Managing Director, Corporate Access Europe – Wealth Manager, Family Office and HNW Europe
Over the past 20 years Floriane has developed close working relationships with a broad...
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Frank Gaul

Managing Director, Corporate Access United States
Mr. Gaul has 25 years of experience in equity sales, including 14 years in...
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Joanne Odeogberin

Managing Director, Corporate Access Europe – Cordination and Logistics Europe
Joanne has over 20 years’ experience on the sellside having previously worked at CIBC...
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Joseph S. Ranieri

Managing Director, Corporate Access United States
Joe has 30+ years of Capital Markets experience. He started his professional career at...
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Kylie Glisan

Managing Director, Corporate Events United States
Kylie has over 15 years’ experience on the sellside having previously worked at Canaccord...
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Matthew Caldwell

Managing Director United States
Mr. Caldwell has 20 years of experience in equity sales, primarily with emerging growth...
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Meirav Gomeh-Bauer

Non-Deal Roadshow, Institutional and Private Wealth Israel
Meirav brings over 17 years of Investor Relations experience, advising local, dual, and international...
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Michael P. Mills

Associate, Corporate Access United States
Michael Mills is an Associate for LifeSci’s Non-Deal Roadshow (NDR) Business. Prior to joining...
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Moran Meir Beres

Managing Director, Head of Israel Israel
Moran brings over 20 years of Investor Relations experience, having worked with Israel’s largest...
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Niki Dilger

Advisory Managing Director, Head of Corporate Access Europe Europe
Niki has over 20 years’ experience in the industry starting out at Cowen in...
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Noa David

Associate Israel
Noa David joined LifeSci in March 2020 as an intern and in January 2021...
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Norma Bowdren

Managing Director, Corporate Access Europe
Norma has over 20 years’ experience in institutional equity sales and has been heavily...
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Ryan P Gaitan

Managing Director United States
Ryan Gaitan graduated from Quinnipiac University with a B.Sc. in Finance and a Master...
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Shiran Shvinkelstein

Director, Israel Corporate Access and Investor Relations Israel
Shiran brings over 8 years of experience in the financial industry. She is a...
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Tom Rorke

Managing Director United States
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Yael Riklin

Associate Israel
Yael Riklin joined LifeSci in May 2021, prior to LifeSci, Yael was on the...
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Business Development

Abigail Healy

Associate Director, Business Development
Abigail Healy supports business development and client onboarding activities for LifeSci Advisors. She is...
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Georgia Attwood

Managing Director, Business Development
Georgia leads business development strategy for LifeSci Advisors. Georgia has been working in the...
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Joe Riccardo

Managing Director United States
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Zoe Curtis

Associate, Business Development United States
Prior to joining, she graduated from the University of San Francisco in California with...
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Finance

Alex Hudak

Controller United States
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Dennis M. Quinn

Chief Financial Officer / Chief Operating Officer United States
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Kyle DelPaoli

Accountant United States
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Oengus Ramsay

CFO, Europe Europe
Oengus has over 25 years’ experience in Finance and Administration. He started his career...
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Ryan J Romaine

Senior Accountant United States
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Senior Leadership

Michele Pollack

Chief Business Officer United States
Michele works closely with senior leadership across all lines of business to develop, communicate,...
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Patrick Marano, Jr.

General Counsel United States
Patrick serves as the General Counsel of LifeSci Partners and its affiliates. Prior to...
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KOL Strategy & Management

Kiana Saghri

Manager, Business Development & Marketing United States
Kiana Saghri, Manager of Business Development and Marketing, works with clients to strategize, market,...
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Sara Parigian

Co-Founder, Director United States
Sara Parigian is co-founder and director at LifeSci Events, where she has established herself...
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Tara Sobierajski

Sr. Manager, Client Success United States
Tara Sobierajski, Sr. Manager of Client Success of LifeSci Events, works with LifeSci’s clients...
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Wilson Hafner

Manager, KOL Events & Strategy United States
Wilson Hafner is the Manager of KOL Events and Strategy on the KOL Events...
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