Ms. Lester joins CytomX with over two decades leading corporate strategy, business development and product portfolio planning across the life science and biopharmaceutical industry. Most recently, she was Chief Business Officer at Replicate Bioscience, where she led corporate strategy, business development and capital formation. She was key in securing financing and multiple partnerships to transform the Company during her tenure. Prior to joining Replicate, Ms. Lester served as SVP of Business Development and Corporate Strategy at Harpoon Therapeutics, a novel T cell engager platform company that was later acquired by Merck, where she established and strengthened the business development strategy through major partnerships with AbbVie and Roche. Previously, Ms. Lester held senior roles in corporate strategy, portfolio management, and commercialization at Bruin Biometrics and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, now an Amgen subsidiary. Earlier in her career, she worked in Deloitte and Booz Allen Hamilton’s life sciences consulting practices, where she advised on multi-billion-dollar M&A transactions, new product planning and strategic growth initiatives. Ms. Lester received her M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and her B.A. in Neuroscience from University of Pennsylvania.