Amy Akillian
Head of Talent Acquisition Ardelyx
Amy is currently the Head of Talent at Ardelyx in Waltham, MA. She brings over 25 years of experience and a wealth of talent and process optimization experience to the role. She has worked in senior positions in-house and in consulting organizations where she has led over 40 organizational builds, heavily on the Commercial side. Her experience in program management, organizational readiness and network in the industry has been invaluable to us already. Amy also brings talent and HR experience across all non-commercial functions in the biopharma space and has spent time working with leading life sciences organizations such as Biogen, Genzyme, EMD Serono and Vertex, but also with emerging, high growth companies looking to scale.
Seminars
- How can clinical-stage life sciences companies build the HR and talent infrastructure needed to commercialize for the first time, often without any internal blueprint for what that transition actually requires?
- Drawing on experience across 40+ commercial launches, this talk unpacks the scaffolding that has to go up around key inflection points, from aligning compliance, legal, and program management to keeping day-to-day execution on track while the organization fundamentally changes shape
- Learn how HR can act as the connective tissue between internal and external teams during commercialization, translating what “going commercial” really means for a workforce that has only ever operated at clinical stage
