About Allison
Leadership is an inside job
Head: I'm a biotech executive with 20 years of rich and varied experiences. After serving many operational and commercial leadership roles, I most recently served on the management team of a Fortune 500 lifesciences company, leading corporate strategy, M&A and corporate venture. Today I enjoy Board service, thought leadership, and advisory work. I earned a mechanical engineering degree and a graduate certification in strategy. My career has allowed me to live around the globe and work for both start-up and multi-national companies. I now call San Francisco home.
Heart & Core: I'm a champion of healing, whole-heartedness, creativity and justice. I have a knack for rallying people around a vision, unlocking potential, and achieving more together than we could have dreamed. I'm a practitioner of Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) and trained in Mindfulness Meditation (MBSR). I am a poet and essayist. I am a teacher of self-leadership and an "interior designer", because leadership is first and foremost an inside job. I am a warrior of justice for all and make crooked paths straight. I leave workplaces, projects and people better than I found them.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Board Member
Analytical, Life Science and Diagnostics Associations (ALDA) 2023-Present
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development
Vice President, Strategy and Business Development
Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, California 2018-Present
Lead Board Director
Board Director
Mission Bio, South San Francisco, California 2018-2021
International Business Leader
Roche Diagnostics, Santa Clara, California 2014-2018
Global Marketing Director
Biocartis, Lausanne, Switzerland 2012-2014
Business Development Director
HTG Molecular 2011-2012, Chicago, Illinois 2011-2012
Market Development Manager
Account Executive
Operations Manager
Quality & Regulatory Engineer
Ventana Medical Systems (acquired by Roche) 2005-2011