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Samina Bari Advisors is a strategy and business advisory firm for healthcare VCs, CEOs and Boards

We help organizations transform R&D—through commercial-stage biotech companies for business success—including increasing valuation, improved fundraising, successful IPOs, and investor reputation.

Experience & Expertise

Samina is an Executive officer-level leader and trusted advisor to CEOs, Boards, and VCs, known for “seeing around corners” to minimize risk, enhance corporate governance, and maximize shareholder value.

She specializes in architecting business strategies that safeguard and enhance shareholder interests, contributing to over $40B in successful M&A transactions.

Samina has a proven track-record in reframing investment theses to increase valuation, stock price, and M&A potential to boost IPO and fundraising success.

Select Highlights

  • Acquired by Nestlé for $2.6B (2020)

  • Acquired by Pfizer for $14.3B (2016)

  • Acquired by AbbVie for $21B (2015) 

  • Acquired by Mallinckrodt for $2.3B (2015)

She develops business and corporate strategy and positioning, investor strategy, and corporate/investor presentations including for TTW and JP Morgan. She also advises on social/digital transformation, R&D strategy, risk and corporate issues, and she has expertise in SEC, FDA, and GDPR compliance, as well as cybersecurity risk mitigation, audit management, and public-facing corporate/investor communications. 

As a trusted advisor with a passion for board oversight and risk management, she helps strengthen governance, risk identification/mitigation, and shareholder value protection while ensuring operational stability to drive acquisition/post-integration efforts.

Samina is a former Pfizer and J&J executive known for her work on blockbuster therapies.

She is published in leading industry trade and business publications and in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

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  • Private investor in various non-US companies

  • How Women Lead – Executive Board Member 

  • How Women Invest – Limited Partner 

  • PUSH for Empowered Pregnancy – Board Chair

  • Cayuga Biotech – Advisor 

  • SX2 Ventures - Advisor

  • Network Contagion Research Institute - Advisor

  • Private Directors Association

Board, Investor, and Advisory Experience

  • Risk Identification and Management

  • Board and Advisory Committees  

  • Corporate Strategy and Governance

  • Investor Strategy, JP Morgan, IPOs, and M&A

  • Crisis Management

  • Cybersecurity Matters

Areas of Expertise

  • Boardwise Global Board Professional Expert Certification

Certifications