Stephanie Brown BSc MBA

Member
ObsEva Board of Directors

Stephanie is an accomplished executive leader with over 30 years of broad commercial experience in the bio-pharma industry.  She currently serves as President North America for Santhera Pharmaceuticals, a global specialty pharmaceutical company focused on commercializing medicines for rare diseases.   Over the course of her career, Stephanie has built and transformed businesses at organizations including Merck (MSD), Genentech, Biogen, and Novartis, where she held a variety of leadership roles in the USA, Canada and globally.  She has deep experience in product launches and has successfully brought highly specialized, breakthrough biologics and small molecules from clinic to commercialization across a broad range of therapeutic areas.

Stephanie has chaired and governed inter-company collaborations, and has chaired, co-chaired and served on multiple executive US and global governance committees.  She is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, the biotechnology industry association in the USA.  Stephanie has also served on the Operating Board of the West Island Palliative Care Residence, a non-profit organization located in Canada.  

Stephanie has a BSc in Chemistry with Biology from Mount Allison University, Canada, and her MBA from Edinburgh Business School, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.