Mr. Ramanayake is a top business veteran with extensive experience in corporate and business development, strategy, transactions, and management of multi-disciplinary dynamic teams in the biotech and pharmaceutical sectors. Mr. Ramanayake has a strong track record in company creation, in/out-licensing, M&A, joint ventures, and cross-border transactions. He currently holds the position of Senior Director (Executive Director equivalent), Global Transactions, Global BD&L at Sanofi. Previously he was a senior BD and transactions executive at BioMarin. He has held positions of increasing and related responsibilities at Johnson & Johnson, Stifel Nicolaus, Empire Valuation Consultants, Ernst & Young, LLP, Grant Thornton, LLP, and Amgen. Mr. Ramanayake earned a bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology from Berea College, a Masters in Immunology, and an MBA in Finance from the University of Rochester. He also holds a certificate in negotiation strategies from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, and a diploma in pre-medical psychology from Moscow M.V. Lomonosov University, in the Russian Federation.