Our team consists of professionals with decades of experience across business development, strategic transactions, strategy consulting, financial modeling, and market research. Each client receives significant leadership engagement and dedicated team members and resources.
Jason Laffin
Co-Head
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Jason Laffin
Co-Head
Jason Laffin has a decade of experience in the life sciences industry supporting transactions and executing strategy consulting engagements across numerous therapeutic areas. Jason has supported sell-side and buy-side transactions totaling over $2.5B in deal value and has executed 75+ market and financial analytics engagements.
Jason received an M.B.A. from the McColl School of Business at Queens University of Charlotte and a B.S. in Physics and Math from Siena College.
Michael Cozart
Co-Head
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Michael Cozart
Co-Head
Michael Cozart is an experienced strategic consultant who has advised life sciences companies from across the globe. Michael has supported transactions totaling over $2.6 billion and executed 75+ strategic consulting mandates.
Michael received a B.A. in Economics and English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Cristiano Musso, M.D.
Managing Director, Head of Europe
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Cristiano Musso, M.D.
Managing Director, Head of Europe
Cristiano Musso, M.D., has more than 25 years of leadership experience in corporate development, strategy and sales and marketing with experience across the spectrum of life science companies. Cristiano was previously VP, Head of Corporate Licensing at Grünenthal Pharmaceuticals where he executed some of their major deals. Prior to Grünenthal, Cristiano held various business development, sales and marketing, strategy roles with increasing responsibility at Menarini Pharmaceuticals.
Cristiano has supported 18 sell and buy-side transactions totaling over $2B in deal value. Cristiano graduated from the University of Genova Medical School.
Kristen Chapey
Vice President
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Kristen Chapey
Vice President
Kristen is experienced in conducting strategy and management consulting mandates for pharmaceutical and biotech companies of all sizes across multiple therapeutic areas. Prior to joining LifeSci, Kristen worked at ClearView Healthcare Partners, a leading life sciences consulting firm.
Kristen graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Georgetown University with a B.S. in Neurobiology. While at Georgetown she conducted research as a Howard Hughes Research Scholar.
Trey Turner
Vice President
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Trey Turner
Vice President
Trey has spent his career supporting informed strategic decision-making for companies operating in the life sciences field. He has experience driving over 50 consulting engagements to enhance the corporate and business development capabilities of clients spanning a variety of therapeutic areas.
Prior to joining LifeSci, Trey was a project lead at ClearView Healthcare Partners managing strategy consulting mandates for big pharma and innovative biotech organizations. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Yale University and conducted medical research in the Van Tassel lab group.
Michal Fisher
Vice President, Corporate Development
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Michal Fisher
Vice President, Corporate Development
Michal Fisher has a decade of business experience, including executive positions in the life sciences sector directing business, corporate development and strategy. Prior to joining LifeSci, Michal managed business development and licensing activities across multiple therapeutic areas at Neopharm. Prior to Neopharm, Michal was Head of Strategic Alliances at SK Pharma, where she led multiple transactions and executed company growth initiatives.
Michal received an MA in Law and a BSc in Biotechnology from Bar-Ilan University.
Harrison Vincent
Senior Analyst
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Harrison Vincent
Senior Analyst
Harrison joined the Partnering & Analytics team as an Analyst in January of 2019. Harrison has experience in the life sciences industry conducting market and financial analytics for both public and private companies across the globe. He has supported partnering and analytic projects across many therapeutic areas, including oncology, dermatology, infectious diseases, and metabolic disorders.
He holds a B.A. in Neuroscience from Columbia University.
Alexa Hendricks, Ph.D.
Senior Analyst
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Alexa Hendricks, Ph.D.
Senior Analyst
Alexa joined the Partnering & Analytics team as an Analyst in April of 2019. Alexa earned her Ph.D. in Neuroscience and M.B.A. from Wake Forest University and holds a B.S. degree in Biology from Lehigh University. Alexa has authored several peer-reviewed journal articles and was awarded a research grant from the National Institute of Health where her work focused in areas of cardiovascular disease and neurological disorders.
During her time at Wake Forest, Alexa also worked as a Business Development Fellow at Wake Forest Innovations.
Mike Laffin
Analyst
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Mike Laffin
Analyst
Mike joined the Partnering and Analytics team as an Analyst in November 2019. Mike obtained a B.A. in Economics from the College of the Holy Cross in May 2019. At Holy Cross, Mike was a member of the Men’s Ice Hockey Team for four years and served as the team captain his junior and senior year.