Expert Profile

Executive | Strategist | Biopharma Leader

Dan Bushell

Strategic executive who has led complex partnerships across discovery, development, and commercialization stages at leading biopharmaceutical companies. Expertise includes managing multi-party alliances with major pharmaceutical companies coordinating cross-functional teams, negotiating contract amendments, and ensuring contractual compliance while advancing therapeutic programs.
Dan Bushell

Areas of Expertise

  • Strategic Partnerships
    Setting up partnerships with other biopharma companies for drug discovery, clinical development and/or commercialization.
  • Corporate Development Strategy
    Deploying corporate development plans for biopharma companies including in- or out-licensing, expanding into new commercial geographies and entering new product/therapeutic area markets.
  • Operational Excellence & Innovation
    Operationalizing new technology/processes to gain operational efficiencies, increase effectiveness or create innovation for biopharma companies.
  • Product Launch Planning
    Developing commercial and medical affairs plans to launch new biopharma products.
  • Technology/Science Assessment
    Evaluating new biopharma technology/science for company adoption/partnering/acquisition.

$300 /HR

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More About the Expert:

Dan Bushell is a strategic executive who has led complex partnerships across discovery, development, and commercialization stages at leading biopharmaceutical companies. Expertise includes managing multi-party alliances with major pharmaceutical companies coordinating cross-functional teams, negotiating contract amendments, and ensuring contractual compliance while advancing therapeutic programs.

Notable achievements include establishing an AI partnership assessment framework by benchmarking 50+ industry deals, structuring an authorized generic licensing strategy that enabled ~$100M in revenue, crafting a comprehensive Latin American market expansion plan, and building IT infrastructure at Gilead to support nine product launches while optimizing tactical expenditures. Demonstrated success in financial modeling, governance framework development, conflict resolution, and driving operational efficiency across scientific, commercial, and regulatory functions in both large global pharmaceutical companies and mid-sized biotech organizations.

Just because something has been successfully done before,
doesn’t mean that it will be successful again.
You need to develop a solution to address what has changed.
Dan Bushell
Executive | Strategist | Biopharma Leader