Amy Schulman is a healthcare investor and Managing Partner at Polaris Partners.
Amy Schulman is a healthcare investor and Managing Partner at Polaris Partners. She also cofoundedand acts as Managing Partner of the Polaris Innovation Fund, which was formed in 2017. Schulman currently serves as Executive Chair of SQZ Biotech, as well as Lyndra Therapeutics where she was a co-founder and the company’s initial CEO. She also represents Polaris as a Director of Kallyope, Volastra, Thirty Madison and ByHeart. Amy joined Polaris in 2014. Prior to joining Polaris, Schulman held various executive roles at Pfizer including as General Counsel, President of Pfizer Consumer Healthcare and Pfizer Nutrition, where she was instrumental in its sale to Nestle for $11.85 billion.
Schulman has received numerous awards including 2019 PharmaVoice 100, Xconomy’s 2017 Newcomer Award, Scientific American’s 2015 Worldview 100 List, Fierce Biotech’s 2014 Top 15 Women in Biotech, and Fortune Magazine’s 2013 50 Most Powerful Women in Business. She is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School and serves on the Board of Directors of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ALNY) and Mount Sinai Hospital. She is also a Member of Singapore’s Health and Biomedical Sciences International Advisory Council.
Schulman is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wesleyan University with a joint degree in philosophy and English and earned her J.D. from Yale Law School.