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Ysette Witteveen
Managing Partner & Practice Leader, Interim Leadership - Life Sciences and Investor-Backed Healthcare
Santa Monica CA USA
Get in TouchYsette Witteveen brings to WittKieffer an extraordinary background encompassing interim leadership and on-demand talent, senior roles in strategy and organizational management consulting, commercial leadership with tech-oriented advisory services, and venture capital investing. In leading WittKieffer’s Interim Leadership Solutions for Life Sciences & investor-backed Healthcare, Ysette furthers WittKieffer’s mission to improve quality of life through impactful leadership by working with clients across life sciences and healthcare to access exceptional interim executives and on-demand leadership to fill talent voids, support and transform teams, and deliver key initiatives. She is a connector, builder, and convener, bringing like-minded individuals and organizations together to produce exceptional results.
Most recently, Ysette was Senior Managing Director Client Development and Management and Global Life Science Vertical Lead for a leading executive recruitment and on-demand talent firm. In this role, she expanded the offerings across functional areas to grow the life sciences practice. She helped develop and leverage a robust talent network of consultants and executives in R&D, clinical solutions, commercialization, market access, strategy, transformation, integration, HR, Finance, and operations to serve large and mid-size pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and healthcare companies, including many of the top 20 pharma organizations that successfully leveraged on-demand talent and interim leaders to grow and transform their business.
Ysette also serves as a Venture Partner with BOLD Capital Partners, where she advises on investment evaluation, portfolio company performance, and thought leadership within life sciences, diagnostics, medical device, and healthcare. Earlier in her career, Ysette held a partnership role at Monitor, a strategy and operations consulting firm (now part of Deloitte) and worked in PricewaterhouseCoopers strategy and organizational design group. She also previously consulted with Monitor Ventures, an early-stage venture fund for which she advised portfolio companies on business and operational strategies, held operational roles at a mid-size tech company and built the West Coast consulting group at the technology strategy and design firm Razorfish.
Ysette lives in the Los Angeles area and enjoys golf, exercise, reading, art, and construction. A native of the Netherlands, she speaks Dutch, English, and conversational German and French.
Distinctions
Board Member, Past Board President, Upward Bound House
Education
M.B.A., Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California Los Angeles
B.B.A., Finance, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor