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Amy Schulman

Ms. Schulman is a managing partner at Polaris Partners, where she focuses on investments in healthcare companies. She joined Polaris in 2014 and manages the LS Polaris Innovation Fund, which was formed in 2017. She currently serves as executive chair of SQZ Biotech, as well as Lyndra Therapeutics where she was co-founder and the company’s initial chief executive officer. Ms. Schulman represents Polaris as a director of Cyclerion, DewPoint Therapeutics and Kallyope, in addition to Volastra, and serves on the board of directors of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. Prior to Polaris, she was on the general counsel of Pfizer, was president of Pfizer Nutrition and became the president of Pfizer Consumer Healthcare after working on its sale to Nestle for $11.85 billion in 2012. She is also a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. Ms. Schulman is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wesleyan University and earned her J.D. from Yale Law School.