Nelia Padilla

Vice President, Consulting Strategy & Operations

Nelia Padilla is Vice President, Consulting Strategy & Operations at Cytel. She brings over 20 years of consulting and industry experience working with senior leadership at pharma, biotech, and clinical research organizations and is a speaker at national and international clinical and digital health conferences.

Throughout her career, Nelia developed expertise working at the intersection of R&D and commercial, especially in personalized medicine/tailored therapeutics, companion diagnostics, and digital health.

Nelia began her career in regulatory affairs and has experience with IND, NDA, BLA submissions and post-marketing compliance. She worked for pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology firms in the US, Canada and Europe including Serono (now Merck Serono), Protiva Biotherapeutics, and Cell Therapeutics. Most recently, Nelia was at IQVIA where she founded the digital health consulting group and helped start the firm’s strategic Drug Design Team. Before joining Quintiles/IQVIA, Nelia spent more than 8 years at Strategy&, a PwC company (formerly Booz & Company).

Nelia has a Masters in Business Administration from Yale University School of Management and an AB in Biology from Harvard University.