Vice President Corporate Development
Innate Immunotherapeutics
New Zealand
Janette has broad business development experience in the life sciences sectors across the US, Europe and Asia Pacific, most recently for QRxPharma Ltd where she completed five licensing transactions. Prior, Janette held the role of Managing Director at Pacific Pharmaceuticals Ltd (now Mylan New Zealand Ltd) and led the restructuring of New Zealand’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturing company, outsourcing production of 130 pharmaceutical products into six countries. She founded and successfully sold two diagnostics companies based in Singapore and Malaysia and founded a pharmaceutical company in Singapore, managing the development of an anti-microbial drug from the acquisition of the patent through to completion of a Phase 2a clinical study. Originally trained as a medical laboratory scientist, Janette holds degrees in marketing and finance, and a Doctorate in Business and Administration wherein her research focused on the strategic management of biotech commercialization.
Research Interest on Biotechnology