Dr. Harietta Eleftherochorinou is a Fortune 40 under 40, top 25 Women in UK Healthcare and the managing vice president of Innovation Ventures at IQVIA, an S&P 500 company with approximately 82,000 employees and operations in 100+ countries. Through this role, Harietta leads globally the portfolio of investments and partnerships that transform healthcare and accelerate patient impact. She is an AI pioneer with 18 years of experience in designing and implementing large scale AI solutions for health.
A Women in STEM ambassador, committed to diversity, ethos and inclusion, Harietta speaks regularly at forums on these topics. An electrical and computer engineer, she holds an MSc in Bioinformatics and PhD in Medicine from Imperial College London.
Innovation hub and startup engagement models in the life sciences can take one of a few flavors with equity investments, commercial partnerships and accelerator programs covering most of the cases.