Stuart Alderton
Background and experience
Stuart is a principal at ZS with over 20 years of life sciences experience, helping pharma and biotech clients solve complex R&D and commercial strategy challenges. Stuart leads a life sciences client relationship with a top 10 global pharmaceutical company focused the R&D and medical space. And, as part of his role in ZS’s Discovery leadership team, Stuart headed up ZS’s integration of Intomics, a bioinformatics company in Copenhagen. He sits on ZS’s ESG steering committee. sits on ZS’s ESG steering committee.
Stuart greatly enjoys the challenge of solving complex problems and is passionate in his support of companies developing differentiated strategies and tactics. He has also worked extensively in the commercial domain, spanning areas such as early-stage commercial assessment, marketing research, portfolio strategy, brand planning and strategy, forecasting, launch planning and multiple field issue areas, including organization design, effectiveness and operations.
Before joining ZS, Stuart worked as an analyst, modelling environmental pollution from industrial plants. He also served as a public relations officer for the British Red Cross.
Education
Master’s degree in natural sciences, University of Cambridge
M.A., University of Cambridge