Saira Ramasastry

Saira Ramasastry is Managing Partner of Life Sciences Advisory, a company that she founded to provide strategic advice and business development solutions for life science companies. Saira is also a Health Innovator Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Prior to founding Life Sciences Advisory, she was an investment banker with Merrill Lynch & Company, where she helped establish the biotechnology practice and was responsible for the origination of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), plus strategic and capital markets transactions. Saira holds a BA in Economics with Honors and Distinction and an MS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, as well as an M Phil in Management Studies from the University of Cambridge, where she is a guest lecturer for the Bioscience Enterprise Programme and serves on the regional board of Cambridge in America.