Saira Ramasastry

Saira Ramasastry is Managing Partner of Life Sciences Advisory, a company that she founded to provide strategic advice and business development solutions for life science companies. Ms. Ramasastry is also a Health Innovator Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Prior to founding Life Sciences Advisory, Ms. Ramasastry was an investment banker with Merrill Lynch & Company, where she helped establish the biotechnology practice and was responsible for the origination of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), strategic and capital markets transactions. She holds a B.A. in Economics with Honors and Distinction and an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University as well as an M. Phil. in Management Studies from the University of Cambridge, where she is a guest lecturer for the Bioscience Enterprise Programme and serves on the regional board of Cambridge in America.