EFL

Role: Mentor

Tracks: Life Sciences - Digital Health

Gill Sawhney

Senior Life Sciences Investment Banker/Consultant

Gill is an investment and merchant banking professional with over 25 years of experience building and leading healthcare practices for premier investment banking firms. He has executed complex financial transactions and helped shape his clients’ growth strategies to transform a broad range of life sciences and healthcare organizations. He provides counsel to C-suite executives, venture capital and private equity firms, specialty life sciences investors, and boards of directors. Over the course of his investment banking career, Gill has closed over 115 advisory and financing transactions with values ranging from $25 million to $1.5 billion. Gill most recently advised biopharmaceutical and other life sciences companies on strategy, corporate development and capital raising in therapeutic areas including oncology, rare disease and inflammation, among others. Gill’s senior-level corporate finance and investment banking experience includes positions as managing director, global coordinator and sector head at ING Barings; partner and co-head of healthcare at Thomas Weisel Partners; co-head of healthcare and managing director at Morgan Joseph; and managing director at Cantor Fitzgerald. He earned his bachelor’s in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.