Debra Yu (LianBio)

Per­cep­tive's $310M US/Chi­na play woos new CEO from Eli Lil­ly's top-speed bam­lanivimab team

For any fledg­ling biotech, re­cruit­ing the right CEO is cru­cial. But it’s an es­pe­cial­ly tough find for the new gen­er­a­tion of cross-bor­der star­tups with glob­al am­bi­tions.

Ide­al­ly, you want some­one who is ready to blaze a speedy path from clin­i­cal de­vel­op­ment to launch and be well-equipped to man­age the prod­uct life cy­cle — which re­quires a lev­el of in­sid­er knowl­edge about how US and Eu­ro­pean com­pa­nies op­er­ate and how to nav­i­gate reg­u­la­to­ry and com­mer­cial­iza­tion land­scapes in Chi­na.

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