Sophie has 25 years of experience building and operating life sciences businesses. She developed her career in sales & marketing with UCB, following which she obtained positions of increasing responsibilities in business development and in sourcing at Pfizer. She then leveraged this experience to build a highly reputable clinical trials business at Cogstate, working with seven of the top ten leading pharmaceutical companies. Most recently, Sophie drove the commercial strategy and execution for Scipher Medicine’s personalized medicine platform in autoimmune diseases; enabling the company through series A and B investments in less than two years. Sophie received her MSc degrees in Chemical/Biotechnology Engineering from University of Brussels (Belgium), and Medicinal Chemistry from University of Lille (France). She earned her Certificate of Business Excellence from Columbia Business School (NY) and is a 2020 graduate of the Disciplined Entrepreneurship Program from MIT Sloan School of Management (Boston).