Alison Lawton

Alison Lawton is an executive leader with more than 30 years of experience in biopharma and most recently served as president and CEO of Kaleido Biosciences. Prior to Kaleido Biosciences, she served as Chief Operating Officer of Aura Biosciences and OvaScience. In addition, from 2014 to 2017, Ms. Lawton served as a biotech consultant for various companies, including as Chief Operating Officer consultant at X4 Pharmaceuticals. Prior to that, Ms. Lawton spent more than 20 years in various positions of increasing responsibility at Genzyme, and subsequently at Sanofi-Aventis, following the acquisition of Genzyme by Sanofi in 2011, including as head of Genzyme Biosurgery and prior as senior vice president of Global Market Access.