Anne-Laure Puaux

CEO at WEHI Ventures

Speaker

Anne-Laure is the CEO at WEHI Ventures, WEHI’s pre-seed and seed fund investing A$66M over 10 years, dedicated to ideas developed by or in collaboration with WEHI.

Over her career, Anne-Laure has been leading new opportunities evaluation, business cases, due diligences, and R&D projects and alliances. She has a track record in designing, negotiating, and closing deals between academic research institutions, biotech companies, private investors and large multinational companies. She is an experienced business development leader in the life sciences sector with global experience, having worked in Europe, US, Asia and Australia, as part of research institutions, biotech companies and multinational pharmaceutical companies.

Anne-Laure completed her PhD in Immunology at Institut Pasteur in Paris, France, and gained her Global Executive MBA from IE Business School in Madrid, Spain.