Gabriella Salvatore returned to Vantage Partners after ten years in the biopharma industry to serve as Head of Design Solutions and Innovation. Previously, Gabriella was the Associate Director of Global and US Patient Advocacy for Takeda Oncology having transitioned from a similar role in the Rare Disease business unit of Sanofi Genzyme. 

 

Prior to working in Advocacy, Gabriella’s career focused on Learning and Leadership Development. She was Head of Organizational Development for Sanofi’s Diabetes & Cardiovascular business unit from 2015 to 2016; first serving in Sanofi’s Genzyme division as Senior Director, Global Leadership & Organizational Development from 2013 – 2015. 

 

Gabriella joined Sanofi Genzyme following a role as VP Client Solutions at The Ariel Group, a Leadership Development consulting firm. In her previous stint at Vantage Partners, a spinoff of the Harvard Negotiation Project, Gabriella served in a variety of roles: Managing Director; practice/P&L owner; product strategist; people manager; business process and operations lead; strategy consultant/leadership coach to Fortune 500 companies across a variety of industries including biopharma, professional services, finance, energy, and consumer product goods as well as non-profit and human services organizations. 

 

Gabriella has been a frequent presenter at industry conferences in the HR, Learning, Leadership, and Patient Advocacy fields as well as guest faculty at Babson College, Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, Harvard Law School’s Advanced Program on Negotiation, and Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. 

 

Gabriella holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Psychology from Lesley University and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Cornell University.