Sylvain Roy

Sylvain is an accomplished technical operations global leader with more than 22 years of biopharmaceutical industry experience and a proven track record of enabling and accelerating patients’ access to life-saving therapies.

Over the past two decades, Sylvain has held senior leadership positions at Baxter International, Baxalta, Shire Pharmaceuticals, and NantKwest, and most recently ImmunityBio, with a focus on manufacturing and process development. During his tenure at ImmunityBio, he contributed to successful investigational new drug (IND) submissions for five cell therapy products (natural killer cell and mesenchymal stem cell therapies), as well as led technology transfers, process scale up, and operations scale out on both autologous and allogeneic process platforms.

With wide-ranging operational and technical expertise in recombinant protein, cell and gene therapy, and vaccines, from early phases to large-scale commercial manufacturing, Sylvain has provided instrumental contributions to the success of multi-billion-dollar biologics and decisive progress in pipeline clinical programs.

Sylvain has a master’s degree in biochemistry and biotechnology engineering from INSA Lyon (France), and has spent a large part of his career in Europe (France, Switzerland), with experience in Asia (Singapore).