Global Head, External Scientific Innovation
Stacy is a recognized healthcare leader and Global Head of External Scientific Innovation at Johnson & Johnson, where she has responsibility for advancing J&J Innovation Medicine’s discovery and development pipeline through early-stage external partnerships and company incubation across the global life science and health technology ecosystem. In her role, Stacy leads a high-performing global team of scientific and business leaders to build, advance, and manage a portfolio of co-investments, collaborations aligned to near- and long-term priorities for therapeutic discovery and development, novel platforms and modalities and emerging areas of breakthrough science and technologies. Stacy is also responsible for expanding and nurturing the external networks within the innovation community, including academia, venture capital, entrepreneurs and other governmental and private organizations.
Stacy has 28+ years of diverse business experience across the life science and technology innovation ecosystem translating transformative assets and technologies into impactful commercial solutions for patients and consumers. She has held a range of leadership positions in the healthcare, biotech, life sciences, consumer health and digital health sectors as a business development executive, venture capital investor, business and innovation strategist and transactional attorney.
Prior to her position as Global Head of External Scientific Innovation, Stacy served as Regional Head of West North America for Johnson & Johnson Innovation. Previously, Stacy was Vice President of Consumer Venture Investments and External Innovation and a team member of Johnson & Johnson’s corporate venture capital organization, JJDC. During her four years at JJDC, Stacy was globally responsible for the growth and management of the Consumer Health equity portfolio and led consumer health and health technology venture investing on the investment team. Under her leadership, the Consumer Health portfolio grew threefold, adding innovative scientific and technological solutions including branded consumer health products and digital health solutions.
Stacy joined Johnson & Johnson in 2014 as Senior Director of Consumer Scientific Innovation at the California Innovation Center, where she was responsible for the identification, assessment and execution of partnerships and collaborations to onboard strategic value assets for the Consumer Health sector.
Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Stacy was a partner at Physic Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in health and sustainability, where she led investments in personalized health solutions that empower consumers to improve their health and wellbeing. Stacy has also been active in the design and execution of science and technology-enabled innovation strategies, business incubation and spin-off opportunities, advising senior management of global enterprises in the consumer product goods industry and pre-commercial and commercial-stage start-ups in the personalized health and medical technology sectors. Prior to joining Physic Ventures, Stacy held leadership positions in the business development groups at Genentech and Third Wave Technologies and was a technology transactions attorney at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati.
Stacy earned her B.A. in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania and received her J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School.