Senior Director, Lilly Ventures, Eli Lilly
Arun Pores Fernando is a senior director at Lilly Ventures, where he leads scouting and due diligence across emerging therapeutic areas and innovative modalities. He brings 10 years of experience in big pharma and management consulting.
Before joining Lilly, Arun worked on the business development team at Bristol Myers Squibb. He also spent four years at Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company) advising pharma and biotech clients on commercial and R&D strategy.
Arun earned a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, where he studied T cell signaling, and completed postdoctoral training at Dana-Farber/Harvard Medical School focused on PI3K/AKT pathways. He has authored over 10 publications in leading scientific journals.