Laia Crespo

Laia joined Sanofi Ventures in 2018 with a background in biotech investing primarily in Europe. Prior to Sanofi, Laia served as Investment Director for Ysios Capital, a Venture fund based in Barcelona, where she led investments and served on the Boards of OxThera (Sweden), Minoryx Therapeutics (Spain) and Inbiomotion (Spain), and as an Observer with AM-Pharma (The Netherlands). Earlier in her career, Laia was part of the European New Business Development team of Janssen-Cilag, a pharmaceutical company of the Johnson & Johnson group, where she assessed commercial and scientific licensing-in opportunities. Previously she worked as a researcher in the UK in companies such as Spirogen (now AstraZeneca), Medivir and UCB-Celltech.

Laia currently serves on the Board of Directors for Lava Therapeutics and is board observer for Nodthera Therapeutics.

Laia graduated in Chemistry from the University of Barcelona, where she also completed a Master in Science and a PhD with honors. Laia holds an MBA from Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, where she focused on biotechnology, healthcare and finance.