Uma M.

Uma M. serves as the Senior Director of Business Development at Otsuka Pharmaceutical Companies (U.S.) since April 2025, previously holding the same title at Biogen from August 2021 to April 2025. With extensive experience in deal leadership across various transactions including licensing and equity investments, Uma has focused on early and late-stage assets in neurology, neuropsychiatry, rare diseases, and platform technologies such as AI/ML, digital health, and gene therapy. Previous roles include Director of Digital Health Strategy and Business Development at Otsuka and Director at Zensights LLC, complemented by experience in strategy consulting and advisory services in prominent organizations such as YourEncore and Ernst & Young. Uma holds an MBA in Strategic Marketing from the Indian School of Business and a Bachelor's degree in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry from Hampshire College.