Maria brings over 25-years of experience in the healthcare sector, working alongside companies of all sizes and assisting them across an entire spectrum of functions,
including: Strategic Planning, Financing, Business Development, Partnership Management, Sales and Marketing, and Capital Raising. Maria is originally a Human Geneticist by training, turned Accountant, Investment Banker, and Healthcare Executive. She has extensive international operational experience across 63 countries in different continents.
Since 2014, Maria has been the Founding Partner of MF7 Ventures, a Miami based Venture fund focused on Digital Health, Precision Medicine and Early Cancer Detection Technologies and, since July 2022, she has been a part of the investment team at Accelmed Partners, a $400 MM Miami-based, Private Equity fund invested in commercial stage Medical Technologies.
Maria spent 10 years working for the global Pharmaceutical company, Novartis, in many roles. She is the former Head of Sales & Marketing for Sandoz Latin America and former CEO/GM of Spain & Portugal at Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics. Prior to this, Maria worked in investment banking as former Vice President of Healthcare at Morgan Stanley, London. She trained as a certified accountant and audit manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, London. She holds an MPH from Columbia University, New York, and a BSc in Human Genetics, from the University College London. She is the mother of an eight-year-old adopted boy named Lukas and enjoys many hobbies (marathon running, ashtanga yoga, tennis, paddle boarding, classical guitar, philosophy).
