Ritu Shah

Ritu serves as a strategic advisor to the leadership team on organizational development and brings several decades of experience leading formation and operations, strategic and portfolio/program management across private and public pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

She currently serves as the Managing Director at Portal Innovations and is focused on portfolio company development and value creation by providing interim leadership to position and accelerated seeded companies to the next round of funding. She has a proven track record in the biopharma industry with success in leading four successful mergers & acquisitions along with new company formation and operations. Ritu has led several drug development campaigns with emphasis on strategic and therapeutic portfolio management across private and public pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Ritu has spent over two decades in pharma drug development, of which the last five years were in biotech.