Gregory Licholai

Gregory P. Licholai, M.D., M.B.A.

Dr. Licholai is a Consultant at McKinsey & Company. He has experience in serving healthcare providers as well as biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Greg has worked on strategic planning and operations transformations for providers of healthcare services. He also has worked on commercial strategy for major biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Prior to joining McKinsey he was engaged in healthcare service and product development consulting and had several private equity firms as clients.

Dr. Licholai has been an entrepreneur and executive in the biopharmaceutical industry. He was Chief Operating Officer at Proteostasis, a private biotechnology company in Cambridge, MA. Earlier, he had been one of the first employees at Amicus Therapeutics and helped take the company public in 2007. He helped move the company from 10 to over 150 employees and raise private and public funds. He was also co-founder of Immunome, Inc a biotechnology firm focused on a novel antibody platform. He was a venture capitalist at Domain Associates based in Princeton, NJ. Previously he was director of Ventures and Business Development at Medtronic Neurological. Greg trained at the Brigham and Women's, Children's, and Massachusetts General Hospitals. He was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Scholar at the National Institutes of Health. He did research in molecular genetics at Yale University and examined variants in hereditary blood diseases. He also worked in molecular oncology at Rockefeller University. Greg received his B.S. from Boston College and Pre-Medical studies at Columbia University, his M.D. from Yale Medical School and his M.B.A from Harvard Business School. He is currently on the scientific advisory board of the National Tay Sachs and Allied Disease Foundation.

Greg brings a proven track record of developing small biopharmaceutical companies and making them successful to SSI Strategy.
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