Cyndi Lee

Cyndi Lee has served as vice president, product development at Allay Therapeutics since September 2020, having joined as senior director of program management in August 2019. She brings over 15 years of experience in medical device and biotech product development, manufacturing and supply chain management, and business operations.

Prior to Allay, Cyndi served as director of program management for start-up medical device companies Neuspera Medical and Topera (Abbott Electrophysiology after its acquisition), where she developed cutting-edge technologies for neuromodulation and electrophysiology diagnostics, respectively. Her broad experience in those roles included program management; research and development; manufacturing operations; directing cross-functional product development teams; and building infrastructure and processes to support commercialization within the startup environment to integrate into a multi-national organization. Earlier in her career, Cyndi held various roles in product development and program management at Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic. Cyndi holds a bachelor’s degree in bioengineering from the University of California Berkeley, a master’s degree and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the AO Institute in Davos, Switzerland.