Marisa Co

MARISA CO leads R&D business insights and analytics group with Bristol-Myers Squibb. She joined BMS in 2013 as vice president, procurement R&D, bringing her vast business acumen and a very diverse set of business experiences. Before BMS, Co was CEO of National Research Institute (NRI), a clinical research site providing clinical trial services to the pharmaceutical industry. She joined NRI after working 25 years as a biopharmaceutical executive with global pharmaceutical companies, working in business strategy, clinical operation efficiencies, profitability improvement, financial analysis, strategic sourcing, business process reengineering and sales optimization. Co earned an M.B.A. from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA with an emphasis in finance and marketing, a pharmacy degree from University of Pharmacy in Buenos Aires and an M.S. in media psychology from Touro University Worldwide. @bmsnews