Deanna Angello
About Deanna Angello
I’m passionate about healthcare and how to advance it, rethink it and deliver it — using innovative and customer-centric solutions. With a focus on wellness, advanced diagnostics, new mechanisms of action, and new technology, how many more people could we help by accurately diagnosing and starting treatment in a timely manner? Transformative therapy requires transformative commercialization. I focus on removing barriers for patients so they can access the therapy they need to achieve the desired outcome. This isn’t about old playbooks, paper stock and glossy brochures.....it’s about impacting quality of life, better patient outcomes and longevity. Having spent almost my entire career in pharma and biotech, I know the healthcare ecosystem is complex and hard to navigate. I understand it — from doctors and payers, to advocacy groups, researchers and academics. My competitive edge is listening to and understanding the patient and customers — both what matters to them and how I can deliver on that. After a stint in investment and management consulting, I went to business school and turned an MBA internship at Pfizer into a career. Working at companies like Pfizer, Genentech, Kite/Gilead and Janssen/J&J means I understand what goes into building success and more importantly, building on success. Despite working for huge organizations, I know how to maximize budgets and resources, using only what’s allocated and seeking alternate solutions to drive impact and results (ask me how I tapped into internal talent to “grow” my team for a potential Alzheimer’s drug launch with limited budget and headcount). I love complex situations and challenging circumstances and often hear, “I could never do what you do.” To me, it’s about increasing the business maturity of the company so they can focus on growth and sustain it for the long term. I’m devoted to helping more women entrepreneurs get funding to advance their ideas and currently advise through Springboard Enterprises around commercialization and go-to-market strategies for life sciences. I’ve also recently become a Venture Fellow for the Material Change Institute, learning how to use a full-spectrum and diverse approach to help investors find, build, and create new value via greater systems thinking. In my spare time, I love to hike — from Patagonia and Everest to Tour de Mont Blanc, Julian Alps, and the Canadian Rockies — the result of “retiring” (aka, body ruination) from years of triathlons and marathons. If you’ve got a professional challenge or just want to talk about my next hike, let’s chat.