WHIS - Agenda

Lucy Perez

Lucy is a Senior Partner in McKinsey’s Boston office. Lucy has 15+ years of experience advising CEOs and top teams at leading pharma, biotech and life sciences companies globally on growth strategy, innovation, sustainability, and organizational transformation.

Lucy co-leads McKinsey’s ESG domain and McKinsey’s All-In DEI efforts in North America.  She also sponsors the Hispanic Latino Network at McKinsey and leads our research efforts on health equity.

Lucy works extensively with number of biopharma and life science clients on broad range of topics, with recent focus on ESG/ sustainability, evidence generation, and digital/analytics programs to improve patient outcomes and support sustainable, inclusive growth.

Led efforts for a leading biopharma to define their ESG strategy, partnership strategy, and stakeholder engagement approach

Led efforts for a leading biopharma to embed health equity as a core principle in their R&D priorities and ways of working across the value chain

Led efforts to assess internal and external portfolio productivity and pricing models to optimize the R&D strategy and redesign the organization for a top pharmaceutical company

Led efforts for a leading biopharma to transform how it engages with customers through digital transformation, applying advanced analytics and embedding agile ways of working across their six largest markets that delivered $300M+ of near-term growth

Sponsor of McKinsey’s Early Stage Investor Conference, an annual event convening 200+ entrepreneurs and 1000+ investors interested in bio/med/health tech and sustainability innovation

Before joining McKinsey, Lucy was a research fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where she was involved in the development of novel treatments for solid tumors. She was also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute research fellow at Harvard University while completing her doctoral studies. She is co-inventor on multiple patents and has published in peer-reviewed journals.

Tracy Warren

Aditi R. Saxena, MD, MMSc

Dr. Neel Shah

Kate Devine

Janet Choi

Jodi Neuhauser

Leslie Forde

Tiffany Vassell

Cindy Rahman

Jill Angelo

Rhiannon White

Adrijana Kekic

Maryon Stewart

Maryon Stewart is an award-winning author, TV presenter, healthcare expert & campaigner.  She is the CEO at Femmar, and Creator of N-HRP™, the Natural Hormone Rebalancing Protocol. She is the author of Manage Your Menopause Naturally and 27 other books. A world-renowned healthcare expert who is often referred to as the Pioneer of the Natural Menopause Movement. She has helped hundreds of thousands of women around the world overcome PMS and menopause symptoms without using drugs or hormones. Maryon and her team at Femmar help women reclaim their wellbeing in the workplace in both the US and the UK. She has had her own TV and radio shows in the United Kingdom.  She currently presents Maryon Stewart’s Menopause Solutions, the first TV series dedicated to menopause, which is airing on Public Television in the US.  In 2018, she was awarded the British Empire Medal and was recognized as one of the 50 most inspirational women by the Daily Mail. In 2022 she was included by Forbes as one of 11 female scientists, innovators and entrepreneurs changing the narrative on menopause.