Alia is a Director and Co-founder of The Life Sciences Division, a UK based, FCA regulated Investment bank serving the global life sciences industry. She has previously established private equity and offshore funds and co-created a number of life sciences private equity backed businesses. Executing on fundraising, mergers, acquisitions and divestments. Alia worked as a buy side equity analyst and Associate Director in the biotech sector at Mulier Capital, an Investment bank and Investment management firm that specialised in gene therapies. Prior to this, Alia’s formative banking career was at Lloyds Banking Group and Scottish Widows Investment Partnership.