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Chris Britten, Managing Director, Torreya Partners (Europe) LLP

Chris is a Managing Director at Torreya Partners, a leading global investment bank focused on facilitating partnerships, M&A transactions and financings in the pharmaceutical sector worldwide.  He joined Torreya from Sanofi Pasteur-MSD where he had responsibility for all business and corporate development activities.  He is also a Non-executive Director at Phico Therapeutics Ltd.

Prior to Sanofi Pasteur-MSD, Chris held positions at Astellas (Europe) in Business and Commercial Development and several years at Deloitte Corporate Finance where he headed up the Life Science Advisory practice assisting clients across the life science sector in a wide range of transactional activities (M&A, divestments, partnering, valuation, fund-raising).  Previously, Chris was at GlaxoSmithKline where he held roles of increasing responsibility in Business Development, Corporate Ventures and R&D.  He holds a PhD in Biochemistry and an MBA in Finance.

Stephanie Léouzon is Partner and Head of Europe for Torreya Partners, a life sciences boutique advisory firm which she joined in 2012. Previously she worked in healthcare investment banking in the US and Europe from 1989 to 2010, most recently at Credit Suisse in London as a Managing Director and Senior Advisor.

She has advised life sciences clients on more than 25 strategic transactions, valued at over
$65 billion, and has been involved in over 45 financing transactions to provide over $10 billion to healthcare clients.

Stephanie earned an MBA degree from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia in 1989 and a BA degree, cum laude, from Mount Holyoke College in 1985.