Sumita Ray

Sumita Ray serves as the Chief Legal, Compliance & Administrative Officer and Corporate Secretary at Vaxxinity since October 2023. Concurrently, Sumita Ray is an Independent Director on the Board of biomea fusion, where responsibilities include chairing the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee and serving on the Audit, Pricing, and Strategic Transactions Committees. As an Advisory Board Member and Angel Investor at BioTrillion, and Principal at FifthRay Consulting LLC, Sumita Ray offers regulatory, compliance, and corporate governance consulting for pharma, biotech, and life science companies. Prior roles include leading legal and compliance functions as Chief Legal, Compliance & Administrative Officer at Instil Bio and Calithera Biosciences, and serving as Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Global Healing. Sumita Ray holds a Juris Doctor from Temple University and a B.S. in Microbiology and Chemistry from the University of Arizona.