About Nazira

Nazira is a trained physician, seasoned life sciences adviser and experienced biopharmaceutical executive. She founded BeeSpoke Strategy in 2018 driven by a strong desire to leverage her medical and commercial expertise to partner with executive teams at emerging biotech and techbio companies that are scaling or at critical inflection points. Nazira is passionate about working with CEOs and their teams on articulating the value of their science/technology whilst also helping them focus on longer term strategic and operational considerations pivotal to ‘growing great companies’.

Prior to founding BeeSpoke Strategy, Nazira was the VP Global Commercial Strategy at Exscientia and at Intercept Pharmaceuticals where she led NASH commercialization for the company’s lead asset. Before her foray into biotech, Nazira spent 14 years at Sanofi where she held numerous senior leadership positions leading global product franchises as well as regional operations.

Nazira holds a BsC in Biology with Honors and an MD from McGill University, an MBA from INSEAD and is a trained CTI coach.

In addition to her professional activities at BeeSpoke Strategy, Nazira is a non-executive director in the charity, education and for profit sectors. Her current appointments include Arkvax, an animal health vaccine company, Vertical Future, an AgTech company, GraphTx, an AI precision medicine company, LSHTM, one of the world’s leading public health universities and I am Heshima, an educational charity based in Kenya. She also offers mentorship to young people starting their careers in life sciences.

A trusted partner to CEOs and their executive teams:

Part of the journey of scaling a biotech for a CEO and their management team involves not only being experts in the science or tech and articulating the value of that asset/tech to an investor or future partner but also developing a future-proof blueprint for the company which will chart out the key financial and human resources critical to getting to the next inflection point and eventually to an exit.

I have worked with a host of life science companies and executive teams at different stages in their journeys, and I am passionate about sharing the learnings from these engagements to benefit my clients.

My key areas of expertise are:

CEO and Executive Committee coaching/Management Team alignment

Business plan refinement

Corporate strategy

Organizational design

Talent identification and acquisition

Commercial Strategy and operations

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Nazira has a rare combination of medical acumen and commercial talent combined with a strong analytical mindset which is complimented by her multi-cultural background and business experience. She brings unique and powerful advantages to emerging biotechs.

– Former C Suite, Top 10 Pharma

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Nazira is a fount of wisdom and experience; she has an innate ability to combine strategic and tactical insights into a unified and coherent view. The questioning, debate and challenge she provides strengthens initial ideas into strong, action-led plans.

– CTO, Publicly Traded Techbio

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Nazira is an experienced global pharma executive who is highly skilled at building winning strategies from early-stage development through to commercialization. Her broad talents make her an invaluable asset across the pharma value chain for clients and investors alike.

– NED and Operational Investor VC

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I have worked with Nazira on and off for nearly 2 decades and I am constantly impressed by the way she balances deep scientific understanding with an effervescent creativity and a steely business mindset.

– Former head of strategic partnerships Top 5 Pharma

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When working with Nazira I was always impressed with her sharp analytical skills which she blended with her ‘renaissance’ view on the world. She partnered very well with senior leaders in the organisation who trusted her opinions and valued her contributions and showed a strong interest in the development of the people working with her, while driving hard for superior performance.

– Former Chief Talent Officer Top 10 Pharma

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Incredible insights and an ability to cut through the fluff. Nazira brought a fresh perspective to any discussion.

– CSO Biotech & former Banking Executive

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Please get in touch at nazira@beespokestrategy.com for more information.