Nishan de Silva, MD, MBA

“Life Science Entrepreneurship Outlook and Key Success Factors”

What looks like indecision in a leader may be disciplined risk management. What looks like resistance may reflect regulatory, clinical, financial, or investor realities the consultant has not yet seen. To coach and consult effectively, psychologists need to understand the organizational context in which a leader’s decisions make sense. Few settings make this more apparent than life science entrepreneurship, where leaders must balance scientific promise with financing, clinical development, operational demands, talent decisions, and an unpredictable marketplace.

Nishan de Silva, MD, MBA, brings more than 25 years of experience across these domains. Now Managing Director of NDS Growth Partners, he has worked in healthcare strategy at McKinsey & Company, invested in biopharmaceutical companies at Warburg Pincus, and served in C-suite and board roles for public and venture-backed biotechnology companies. His keynote will give consulting psychologists an inside view of the pressures, tradeoffs, and success factors shaping life science organizations, and the leaders they are called upon to support.