Guillaume Leroy is the founder of Global Life Science Advisory, a company dedicated to supporting Executive teams and Boards in the Life Sciences Fields.

Dr. Leroy is an accomplished scientific leader with extensive experience in commercial operations, where he has demonstrated a strong ability to deliver financial growth and public health impact in diverse business settings around the globe. Dr. Leroy also brings a strong track record of transforming organizations, developing talents, managing breakthrough scientific innovations, and navigating highly complex public health and political environments in both developed and emerging countries.

Dr. Leroy served as President of Sanofi France from 2017 to 2020, where he developed and executed a Societal Impact Strategy Roadmap to guide the transformation of 25,000 employees with unions, authorities, and professional organizations. Prior to that, he led a cross-functional R&D and Marketing team to successfully develop and market the first vaccine against dengue fever.

Dr. Leroy started his career at Sanofi Pasteur in Brazil, where he successfully launched the company’s first flu vaccination program before taking on growing P&L accountability at both country and regional levels in Africa, French Overseas Territories, and Latin America. Under his leadership and public health focus, Sanofi Pasteur Latin America became the leading vaccine company in the region, recognized for having set successful strategic industrial partnerships with state-owned companies in both Brazil and Mexico, as well as providing H1N1 pandemic response by supplying vaccines for 20% of the whole population of Latin America.

Dr. Leroy received his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Université de Rouen, at Rouen, France and his Marketing Masters from ESCP Business School in Paris.

Daniel Salva holds advisory positions in over 15 startups in Europe, the USA, and Israel in sectors including aviation, healthcare, financial services, food and beverage, and real estate. He has more that $10 billion invested in different private equity ventures.

Mr. Salva brings 20+ years’ experience in international investment banking and finance, holding senior managerial roles in financial centers such as London, New York, Los Angeles, and Monaco. He also has extensive experience in private equity, investment banking, and wealth management experience at Edmond de Rothschild, JP Morgan, Barclays Capital, and UBS Investment Bank.

Mr. Salva holds a B.A. from the University of Malaga and a Masters degree in Finance from the University of London.

Lucia Gonzalez is a finance and venture capital professional with more than 15 years of experience in financial planning, controllership, auditing, human resources, compliance and private equity/debt investments.

Ms. Gonzalez brings experience as a former CFO for a vaccine company, where she was responsible for the finance, operations and supply functions involving multiple vaccine distributors in Asia and Europe.

Ms. Gonzalez started her career in General Electric where she worked in the energy, aviation, water technology and capital sectors for more than 9 years. During her time at GE, she lived abroad in several US cities, Brazil, and Japan. Ms. Gonzalez also has experience managing cross-functional teams and has served as Ombudsperson for many ethical and/or integrity concerns at the Monterrey Center for over 1,000 employees.

Ms. Gonzalez has a passion and acumen for investments and has successfully raised capital investment to support company growth in her former capacity as CFO of a municipal solid waste company. She has been involved in analyzing more than 60 different companies for potential investment.

Ms. Gonzalez holds a bachelor ’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico.

Martin A. Bell formerly served as Vice Chairman of Blair Investment Banking Corp., a boutique Wall Street firm specializing in public and private financings for new and early-stage companies primarily in the field of biotechnology, for over 28 years.

From 1983 through 1990, Mr. Bell was President and Chief Operating Officer of Service Resources Corp., an NYSE-listed company with operations in multiple industries including office services and financial communications, with offices throughout the U.S. and overseas. From 1977 through 1985, he was an attorney with Finley, Kumble, Wagner, et al., first as an associate and then as a partner, specializing in corporate and securities law.

Mr. Bell has also served as a director of News Communications, Inc., Venus Exploration, Inc. and various other public and private companies.

He is currently on the Board of Directors of JDRF, the leading global organization funding Type 1 Diabetes Research, and the Advisory Board of the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia University.

Mr. Bell is an Honors graduate of the University of Michigan, 1974, and received his J.D. from New York University School of Law, 1977, where he was an Editor of the Annual Survey of American Law.

Ana Mendez-Arista has 15+ years of experience in retail and operations of consumer goods, financial services and vaccines.

Ms. Mendez-Arista brings experience in market strategy from the banking industry, where she worked with teams in different countries in Europe, Mexico and Central America to ensure the product market strategy and messaging in each country was aligned to the established product branding guidelines set by global headquarters.

Ms. Mendez-Arista built the market strategy at Banco Azteca for its currency exchange and fine metals businesses and oversaw its operations and budget planning and control, working side by side with the Treasury, Regulatory Committee, IT and Legal department, Accounting and AML office. As currency exchange manager, Ms. Mendez-Arista showed strong commitment to the improvement of services for customers by training tellers, branch, and regional managers of over 1,700 branches.

Prior to that, Ms. Mendez-Arista was a member and active volunteer of the Fundación Pensamiento Libre, a Foundation committed full time with its work focusing on supporting its community, giving empowerment to those she worked with and encouraging the progress of each person. With a hands-on mindset, she worked in a Juvenile Detention Center for girls helping them to work on their high school tests so they could continue their education.

Ms. Mendez-Arista holds a bachelor ’s degree in Financial Management from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico.

Jesse Crowne has over 26 years of experience as an investor in and operator of rapidly growing healthcare companies and currently teaches finance classes to graduate students at Westminster College, as well as doing charity work with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS)— Utah LLS chapter named him Man of the Year in 2017.

Before joining EdJen, Mr. Crowne served as Chief Executive Officer of Nepetx, a pre-clinical biotech company developing an orally administered enzymatic therapy for the treatment of Celiac Disease.

He previously served as Executive Co-Chairman at Medovex Corporation, a publicly-traded medical device company focused on commercializing a minimally invasive, single-use device for the treatment of lower back pain (facet joint syndrome) that provides long-term pain relief. Mr. Crowne has also served as President of Vavotar Life Sciences, a clinical-stage biotech company developing antibody-drug conjugates for oncology applications.

He expanded his operations and investing skillsets during his time as Managing Partner with Gorlin Companies, a healthcare-focused Single-Family Office based out of Aspen, CO. In this capacity, he had the opportunity to co-found several companies and serve on their management teams.

Mr. Crowne began his career as a compounding pharmacy technician before moving over to the world of finance and becoming an Associate with White Pine Medical, a private equity investment vehicle and subsidiary of Essex Woodlands Health Ventures focused on the medical device sector. Within White Pine, he was responsible for tracking and reporting portfolio company performance, completing market research, developing financial models, sourcing deal flow, leading due diligence of potential investments, and presenting financial plans and strategic initiatives to general and limited partners.

Mr. Crowne received an MBA and an MPH from Westminster College and BS degrees in Biology and Economics from the University of Utah.

Claudia Hillmeier is a self-made entrepreneur, strategic investor, and advisor for multiple industries across Europe and the Americas. Ms. Hillmeier’s multi-faceted career covers consumer goods, alternative investments, motor sports team & event management as well as real estate development. She has been named as one of the 100 most influential women in Las Vegas Review Journal and was awarded “Newcomer of the year” by QVC Homeshopping Network in 2017 for her extraordinary products in the consumer goods world.

Ms. Hillmeier has 20+ years of expertise in value-driven leadership, brand development and is a recognized expert in building team culture. She is a passionate humanitarian and philanthropist with focus on healthcare and environmental concerns, supporting different organizations and startups who are dedicated to protect our planet and helping humanity with a One-World-Approach.

Ms. Hillmeier secret to success and happiness is having an open, positive, and cross-functional mindset that break boundaries of traditional industries. Being born and raised in Germany she has an extraordinary thrive for precision and never-ending improvement.

Ms. Hillmeier holds a German Bachelor degree in International Trading from Business School Starnberg and has expanded her in-depth marketing and leadership skills through ongoing expert training in these categories.