Stephanie Oestreich

Managing Director at MMRF

Speaker

Stephanie Oestreich is Managing Director of the Myeloma Investment Fund and serves on the boards of the German American Business Council and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Women’s Network. She is also on the faculty of MIT, a member of the Launchpad Venture Group, an advisor at grIP Venture Studio, to Biognosys (a Bruker company), Invitris, CART company CelineTx and to OrangeGrove Bio and a member of the W20 Entrepreneurship task force, the official engagement group of the G20.

Previously she was Chief Business Officer at Galecto, Vice President at cell therapy company Mnemo Therapeutics, Venture Partner at RA Capital and Executive Vice President at Evotec where she built its North American investment arm and an incubator with Samsara BioCapital.

She also worked at F. Roche Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and for Novartis in Business Development and in Commercial.

Stephanie conducted the research for her Ph.D. in biochemistry in the lab of a Nobel Prize winner at Harvard Medical School and obtained an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.

As a semi-professional violinist, she performs with Philharmonic orchestras in Carnegie Hall and other international venues and conducts workshops with live orchestras, demonstrating the similarities between teams and leadership in music and management.