Yolanda Cabrera-Sybesma

Yolanda Cabrera-Sybesma is the founder and Managing Partner of CiNTL, a project management consultancy firm servicing the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, private and public health sectors. She is accountable for business operations, strategy, risk management, compliance, and business controls across CiNTL and oversight of all projects’ revenue, profit, and client satisfaction.

Yolanda has over 20 years of scientific and management experience in numerous public and private companies. She is advising clients across USA, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, and Asia. Her engagement focuses on research and development, operational strategy and change management, emerging markets’ expansion focused on new technology trends within pharmaceutical and biotechnology, and market access. Yolanda has long-standing expertise in leading and developing the project management operations function in the pharmaceutical and biotech space. She has built a reputation for agile operational excellence, driving innovative, strategy, working with the highest level of integrity, and a deep and passionate commitment to CiNTL clients.

Yolanda founded C. International while a student at Yale School of Medicine and spearheaded the design and development of a clinical database which led to additional client collaborations and expanding her consulting firm in the Netherlands where she would later partner up to form CiNTL.

Yolanda has held various senior management positions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. From negotiating RFPs to being a liaison between pharmaceutical companies and government public health officials.

Prior to working at CiNTL, Yolanda held leadership roles for Astellas Pharmaceutical, Genzyme, and PRA International, leading project managers and directors and supervising global Phase 1-IV portfolios and was a key contributor to the EMA and FDA approval of Myozyme® for the treatment of Pompe disease. In her roles, Yolanda has been responsible for projects with operating budgets of $500 million and has played a key role in improving and scaling up the procurement of projects by 30% in one year.

She serves on several boards, she is on the board of American Industrial Acquisition Corporation as a Senior Advisor, on the Board of Directors for The Project Management Institute as VP and has served as the chairman of The Hera International Foundation. She has given speeches in conferences and in 2021 founded LeadingLatinx, a platform that highlights stories of Latinx Leaders making social impact and covering topics related to Diversity and Inclusion of women on boards.

Yolanda has won several scientific awards, including receiving a NIH Forgarty International Research Grant and has been recognized in WHO’s Who In Medicine and Research. In addition, she has co-published in multiple Scientific Journals and recently published a book on Access to Medicines.

In October 2021, Yolanda was selected as member of Topvrouw (TopWoman) for the Netherlands.

Yolanda holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) from Vrije University (VU), The Netherlands and did her medical school education at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.