Michael Retterath

Michael Retterath serves as Chief Strategy Officer at Spark Therapeutics, where he leads the development and implementation of Spark’s long-term corporate strategy, including portfolio and technology prioritization, enterprise-wide processes, long-range financial planning and the cultivation of collaborative partnerships to advance Spark programs.

Michael joins Spark Therapeutics from Bain & Company, where he served as a partner in the healthcare practice for a decade. In this role, Michael focused on corporate and business unit strategies, organizational transformations, product launches, growth strategies and new market entries. His experience spans multiple therapeutic areas, including rare disease, the central nervous system and ophthalmology across a wide range of modalities.

Prior to joining Bain in 2010, Michael was a partner at Monitor Group and head of the New York office, where he supported pharmaceutical treatment launches and growth strategies for 10 years. Before that, Michael was senior vice president at Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur in Paris, France and a senior director at Boehringer Mannheim (now Roche) in Mannheim, Germany.

Michael earned an M.B.A. from the Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires (INSEAD) and holds a MSc. in molecular biology and a BSc. in biochemistry from the University of Waterloo in Canada.