Stephanie Wisner

Stephanie Wisner received her bachelor’s in Chemistry & Chemical Biology from Cornell University and holds an MBA from University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. Stephanie combines her background in basic science with her experience in business to lead finance and operations for Centivax.

Previously, Stephanie conducted independent research projects in chemical biology at Cornell, University of Michigan, and Pfizer. She began working with biotech start-ups after founding her own consulting business, in which she worked with the leadership of over 15 scientific start-ups to develop commercialization strategy and complete capital raising. She has also worked as an Analyst at ARCH Venture Partners, where she partnered with Managing Directors, Partners, and Associates to perform deep diligence on early stage scientific technologies, assessing them for potential investments and developing market landscape investment theses for close to 200 scientific companies; as well as assisting ARCH portfolio companies in building their businesses through coaching and business development work.

While at Booth, she worked as an Associate with the $20M seed fund (George Shultz Innovation Fund), providing strategic consulting to life science university spin outs and performing diligence on potential investments.