Maria has 25+ years of experience in business operations in the Pharmaceutical/Biotech industry. Her areas of expertise include: strategic outsourcing, vendor and relationship management, contract management, financial analysis, global procurement and project management with an emphasis on clinical and pre-clinical research. She started her career at Rhode Island Hospital and continued at various biotech/pharmaceutical and device companies, including Vertex, Sunovion, Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Boston Scientific, Cubist, Infinity, Akebia and Tesaro/GSK. She also provided consulting and advisory services to Voyager, Vigeo, Corbus, Masimo and other companies. Maria is working with the LouLou Foundation in serving global CDKL5 community and in supporting observational and biomarker trials. She holds a Master’s Degree in Education and Linguistics from Moscow Linguistic University and a Paralegal Diploma from The National Academy for Paralegal Studies, USA.