Biotech

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Wonder Woman in Business, Lisa Sellers, Ph.D.

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Lisa Sellers

Lisa V. Sellers, PhD, CEO of Vector Laboratories, is an accomplished leader and mentor in life sciences with more than 20 years of experience in the industry. Sellers drives expansion and business strategies for Vector Laboratories, a trusted reagent and critical component manufacturing partner that empowers biopharma, life science tools and diagnostics companies to accelerate their ability to provide value to their customers. Sellers has a stellar track record of spearheading successful business strategies based on unmet market opportunities, while prioritizing the development of a people-first work environment. This winning combination has created unstoppable forward momentum at Vector Laboratories.

Before joining Vector Laboratories, Sellers provided consulting services for numerous life science companies to guide them in accelerating product development and commercialization to enter new markets. Sellers has served in executive and senior management roles in marketing, sales, and specific product lines for companies such as Thermo Fisher Scientific, 10x Genomics, Life Technologies, and Applied Biosystems, among others.

While Sellers has earned notable success as a top life science industry expert, she has always believed in the importance of giving back.

Sellers serves as an Advisory Board Member with the LEAD Scholars Program at Santa Clara University, a board member with Notre Dame Belmont High School, and an Advisory Board Member, Master of Biotechnology at San Jose State University. She has a personal passion for coaching professionals to navigate job choices in STEM to achieve their potential and to provide the utmost in career fulfillment. As such, Sellers has been a speaker at ISPE, Navigating Your Career Amidst Uncertainty in Dec 2020; Women in Product, SF Bay Area, for Go-to-Market Series in May 2019; and was featured in CMO.com, Best Leadership Advice I Ever Received publication in Feb 2019. Sellers was also named A Women of Influence in 2022 by the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

Sellers earned a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Colorado Boulder and a BS in Chemistry, ACS Certified from Santa Clara University.

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Lisa Sellers, PhD

Connect with Lisa

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisavsellers/

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Wonder Woman in Business, Susan Stipa

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Susan Stipa

Susan Stipa is an engineering, science, biopharma, and healthcare marketing guru, bringing more than 30 years of diverse experience and brainpower to the world of life science and healthcare communications. As Executive Vice President of Biopharma Strategy at the life-science-centric marketing agency CG Life, Susan is a trusted advisor to biopharma, life science, and healthcare companies of all stages, seamlessly combining her chemical engineering background and scientific expertise with creative marketing strategies.

A chemical engineer by training and with her right-brain creativity, Susan helps pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare companies shine a spotlight on their science – creatively, conversationally, and with pizzaz. She knows how to help companies execute their business goals by offering a fresh and unique perspective on client challenges and bridging the gap between science and marketing to help companies communicate their science.

Susan’s impressive career includes chemical engineering roles at Hoffmann La Roche and Rheometrics, with a stint as Global Marketing Lead for world financing powerhouse De Lage Landen and serving as the Commercial Director of Foster Wheeler/Biokinetics, leading the company’s business development and marketing efforts. Susan went on to start her own pharmaceutical marketing communications firm, McDay, the first of its kind in the U.S., which she ran for seven years and won multiple awards before it was acquired by CG Life in 2020.

Susan is a dedicated mom of four kids (with one still in college), and she also has two beautiful grandchildren. She’s also a dog mom to her Newfoundland “Mary Jane” and King Charles spaniel “Charlie” (imagine that size difference). In addition to spending time with her family, you can find the Irish redhead (turned blonde) running half-marathons or on the tennis and paddle courts, where she is a force in the game.

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Susan Stipa

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