Lesley is Head of West North America, External Scientific Innovation at Johnson & Johnson where she also leads as the Head of the California Innovation Center. In this role, she leads identification, incubation, due diligence, negotiation, execution, and on-boarding for high-impact partnerships and collaborations in external innovation. Lesley also oversees the region’s partnership portfolio and is responsible for a wide range of dealmaking solutions including research collaborations, licensing options, venture investments, new company formations, and incubation to establish value-creating partnerships with promising early-stage innovators. Previously, Lesley served as Head of JLABS @ SSF where she managed lab and business operations for the Johnson & Johnson Innovation incubator site. Most recently, Lesley was Managing Director at Lasana Partners where she successfully facilitated multiple partnerships. Before Lasana, Lesley was the Chief Business Officer of Annexon BioSciences. Lesley completed her Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Harvard Medical School. She earned her BS in Chemistry at the University of Virginia PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry at the University of Rochester.