Business Development and Growth Strategy Architect, Pharmaceutical Business Development Executive, Corporate M&A Transactions, Corporate Development, Licensing, Partnering, and Acquisitions, Due Diligence, Business Case Development, Financial Modeling and Valuations, Cross-Functional Leadership, Rare diseases, Biotech, Life Sciences, eHealth, Consulting, MBA
Organizations seeking growth, an exit, or a strategic edge bring me in to find what they cannot see and build what they cannot yet imagine.
A business development and strategy executive with a career built at the intersection of science, finance, and commercial creativity. Operates across life sciences, specialty pharma, rare disease, and adjacent industries, with a track record of surfacing under-indexed opportunities, architecting complex deals, and building new businesses and revenue streams from the ground up, drawing on experience gained across all sides of the deal table.
Areas of Expertise
Strategic in- and out-licensing
M&A, divestitures, and partnerships
Deal sourcing, structuring, and negotiation
Adjacent market expansion
New business and revenue modeling
Cross-functional due diligence leadership
C-suite and Board presentations
Rare disease and specialty pharma
Portfolio valuation and R&D optimization
Selected Achievements
Deal Architecture and Value Creation
- Sourced and advanced an under-indexed, de-risked asset mis-staged in global databases and therefore invisible to others; asset is positioned to become Standard of Care, extending company IP runway by 6+ years with near-term revenue accretion.
- Negotiated a Japan rare disease partnership, bridging divergent regulatory and commercial frameworks; uplifted milestones 45% and secured tiered double-digit royalties with tail.
- Identified and secured a de-risked Phase III asset that became the company's lead product, successfully launched four years later.
- Structured portfolio valuations and business case enabling a $10M private placement and a successful spinout.
- Presented company to Wall Street as one of three C-suite executives, securing a $6M private placement with a $2M follow-on.
Growth Strategy and New Venture Creation
- Modeled a new life sciences service repurposing medical records to identify rare disease patients earlier and connect them with relevant clinical trials; supported a 35% valuation uplift and a $275M PE acquisition.
- Evaluated joint venture and adjacent-market opportunities for a Fortune 500 utility navigating industry deregulation, advising on entry into telecommunications and other sectors.
- Built a multi-company business from a single product line into four distinct revenue streams, adding a consulting arm and developing expertise in product positioning, niche marketing, and media relations.
- Built a pipeline of near-term, synergistic follow-on opportunities supporting sustained growth optionality.
Enterprise Value and Portfolio Optimization
- Designed a predictive valuation model that ranked and prioritized 300+ pipeline assets, improving R&D resource allocation and increasing annual FDA submissions from 5 to 14.
- Led a Fortune 500 company's transition from EPS targets to cash-based value measures across seven business units, improving shareholder value alignment by approximately 30%.
- Partnered with Boston Consulting Group to drive portfolio-wide value management strategy; mentored senior executives and trained analysts on value creation frameworks.
At a Glance
~$2B
Led and executed in acquisitions, divestitures, and global licensing
$275M
PE acquisition supported
45%
Milestone uplift, Japan partnership
6+ yrs
IP runway extension
5 to 14
Annual FDA submissions increased
Experience
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, King of Prussia, PA
Vice President, Business Development
PE-backed commercial pharmaceutical company
2024 – Present
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Morristown, NJ
Global Head, Business Development
Public commercial biopharmaceutical company
2021 – 2024
Alyon Inc., Hackensack, NJ
Head of Business Development, North America
US subsidiary of a Swiss pharmaceutical company
2016 – 2021
Luminant, LLC, Stamford, CT
Senior Business Development and Strategy Consultant
Life science business development consulting
2008 – Present
Earlier Strategy and Finance Experience
Innapharma, Inc., Suffern, NY
Acting CFO
Pharmaceutical company and contract research organization (CRO)
Taro Pharmaceuticals USA, Hawthorne, NY
Director, Financial Analysis and Strategic Planning
Public multinational pharmaceutical company
Public Service Electric and Gas (PSE&G), Newark, NJ
Business Analysis Manager
Fortune 500 electric and gas company
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance and International Business
Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, NY
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Cum Laude in Chemistry
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Discovered a new chemical Poly-Bis(μ-Diphenyl-Phosphinato)-Copper(II). Published an article in Inorganica Chemica Acta. Received three academic achievement awards.
Honors
Management Honors Program, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, selected from top graduates across all universities; awarded a scholarship for excellence