Lisa Pilla, RPH, is a strategic advisor and consultant. An industry leader in commercial strategy, sales, and marketing effectiveness, Lisa’s career spans over 25 years in Fortune 500, start-up, and independent biopharmaceuticals and life sciences companies. Through her entrepreneurial spirit, she evolved, transformed, and built cross-functional organizations as a commercial executive, consistently delivering sustainable growth through multiple business cycles. She led business units in big pharma and specialty biotechnology. Leveraging her scientific background and commercial leadership expertise, Lisa develops commercial strategies and operational plans across multiple functions- including commercial coordination in research and development, product launches, field force leadership, and market access.

Passionate about developing talent, Lisa is an executive mentor and advisor in the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA). Through this, she coached a number of leaders who rose to executive leadership in life sciences companies. She is also a board member and advisor to the Rutgers University Graduate Business School Customer Experience program. Lisa holds a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and an MBA from Rutgers University and is a registered pharmacist. 

Lisa’s areas of focus include commercial strategy, sales and marketing effectiveness, launch readiness, commercial assessments, commercial model innovation and optimization, field force diagnostics, branding, customer experience, go-to-market strategy and business planning, new product commercialization, leadership development, and transformation of business models and culture.

Lisa’s experience is in launching, building and turning around brands in primary care, specialty, and rare disease as a pharma leader and in advising clients with assets in neurology, oncology, and adult vaccines.