Overview

Gender

female

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Amy Schulman is the Chief Executive Officer at Arsia Therapeutics since August 2014. Arsia, a biotechnology company focused on improving patients’ lives through new modes of drug delivery, and a venture partner at Polaris, a leading venture capital firm with approximately 4 billion under management in August of 2014.

Amy joined Polaris Partner’s Boston office as a Healthcare Venture Partner in 2014, simultaneously assuming the role of Chief Executive Officer of Arsia Therapeutics, a Polaris-backed company.

In July 2015 Amy co-founded Lyndra where she is Chief Executive Officer and President.

Amy is an accomplished business leader, widely recognized for growing and stabilizing global businesses, commitment to people, strategic judgment, and efforts to advance women and promote inclusive workplace cultures.

Amy joined Harvard Business School’s Faculty as a Senior Lecturer in July 2014.

Prior to that, Amy led Pfizer Inc.’s $4 billion Consumer Healthcare business, which operates in 90 countries and includes well-known brands such as Advil, Centrum and Chapstick. Amy also served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Pfizer Inc. Key accomplishments include: revitalization of the ChapStick brand; regulatory filing for Lipitor OTC; rapid growth of Emergen-C and increased Europe profitability.

Amy originally joined Pfizer in 2008 as General Counsel and saw the company through its $68 billion acquisition of Wyeth, the largest pharmaceutical acquisition in history. In 2009, Amy spearheaded an innovative approach to engaging outside counsel and became recognized as a leading voice for transforming the billable-hour model and for redefining the value of legal services.

Before joining Pfizer, Amy was a Partner at DLA Piper, where she was a Member of the Board and Executive Policy Committees and built and led the international law firm’s mass tort and class-action practice handling some of the most complex legal, scientific and regulatory challenges facing the world’s largest and most reputable companies, including Kraft, Altria, Cisco, GE Healthcare and Pfizer.

Amy began her career in litigation with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.

Amy's accomplishments have earned her accolades from leading publications and organizations. In 2013 Fortune magazine named her one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Business.” That same year, The American Lawyer named her one of the “Top 50 Innovators,” and The National Law Journal named her one of “The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America.”

Amy also has been recognized by The American Bar Association, which honored her with the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement award in 2012. In 2009 Forbes magazine included her on its inaugural list of “The World’s Most Powerful Women.”

Amy serves on the Boards of Directors of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Arsanis, Biosciences, Arsia Therapeutics, BIND Therapeutics, Blue Buffalo, Lyndra, and SQZ Biotech.

A Phi Beta Kappa Graduate of Wesleyan University, Amy earned her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1989.