Elizabeth Pitts

Elizabeth Pitts has extensive work experience in the field of product management and marketing in the life sciences industry. Elizabeth most recently served as the Associate Director of Product Management at NanoString Technologies, Inc., where they developed the Digital Spatial Profiling platform and managed the custom reagents business. Prior to that, they worked at Thermo Fisher Scientific as an Associate Director, Product Management, focusing on commercializing research tools and driving growth in the genetic analysis business. Elizabeth also has experience as a Product Manager at Affymetrix, where they managed the gene expression product line, and as a Marketing Management Associate at Merck, where they promoted pharmaceuticals and launched a new drug. Elizabeth has also worked as a Consultant at Biocon, conducting market research and identifying marketing strategy partners, and as an MBA Summer Associate at Novartis, supporting the global pre-launch development and positioning of a drug. Earlier in their career, Elizabeth worked as a Biologist and Research Assistant at the NIH, where they established advanced research capacity and conducted research on novel drug-radiotherapy treatments for cancer using gene array technology.

Elizabeth Pitts earned a BA, Magna cum Laude, in Biology and Environmental Studies from Bowdoin College in 2000. Elizabeth then went on to complete their master's degree in Molecular Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2000 to 2002. In 2004, they attended MIT Sloan School of Management and obtained their MBA.