Paul Sartori

Dr. Paul Sartori is vice president of Organizational Development at Verndari, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company based in Napa, California, that aims to transform vaccines through next-generation science.

Dr. Sartori has deep experience with startup companies and was recently the vice president of Organization and Strategy for Cavion LLC, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company based in Charlottesville, Virginia developing therapies aimed at modulating the T-type calcium channel for the treatment of chronic and rare neurological diseases. Cavion was acquired by Jazz Pharmaceuticals Plc in 2019. He was formerly a vice president at Integrated Biosystems, Focus Technologies, and BioTrove. He currently serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for CvilleBioHub in Charlottesville, Virginia, advising several early-stage companies.

Dr. Sartori has served as a senior executive and corporate officer in a variety of challenging global roles for large corporations. After starting his career at Corning, he served as the chief human resources officer for CIBA Corning Diagnostics, a global joint venture between Corning and CIBA-Geigy of Switzerland, then senior vice president and later executive vice president of CIBA prior to the merger of CIBA and Sandoz forming Novartis. At Novartis, he was named executive vice president, Human Resources and Public Affairs, and served in Basel, Switzerland on the global integration teams. Prior to working almost exclusively with early-stage companies, Dr. Sartori also served as an officer and global head of Human Resources at Covance and Bausch & Lomb. Dr. Sartori’s operational experience includes marketing, communications, public and government affairs, and leading organizational change.

He has served on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations, including the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in New Jersey; the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Rochester, New York; and the Curry School of Education Foundation at the University of Virginia. He led the establishment of the Pediatric Cataract Initiative, an innovative global combined effort between Bausch & Lomb and Lion’s Club International Foundation, with an emphasis on improving healthcare for children in the developing world. He was among the founders of the Partnership for Leaders in Education, a joint effort between the Curry School of Education and the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Currently, he is on the Board of the Council of Foreign Relations in Charlottesville and the Advisory Board for the Children’s Hospital at the University of Virginia.

Mr. Sartori received a B.A. with honors from Northeastern University. He received an M.A. in Teaching History, a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Virginia, as well as an M.B.A. from the Darden Graduate School of Business. In 2002, Mr. Sartori was elected into the Raven Society, the University of Virginia’s oldest honorary society.