Katie Ellias
Katie Ellias joined SAB's Board of Directors in November 2023, bringing more than twenty years of health care and investment experience to SAB.
Ms. Ellias serves as a Managing Director at the JDRF T1D Fund LLC, a venture philanthropy fund with approximately $200 million in assets, including an investment in SAB. Ms. Ellias joined the T1D Fund in 2018 where she has led a number of investments in companies developing T1D-oriented therapies. She has also served as a director on the board of several companies, including, DiogenX, Veralox Therapeutics, i2O Therapeutics, and Capillary Biomedical.
Ms. Ellias joined the T1D Fund from Endeavour Vision, a Geneva-based growth-stage venture fund. She was previously Principal at Sofinnova Partners, Paris, a leading early-stage life sciences fund. Ms. Ellias has also held commercial and business development roles with Medtronic and started her career at McKinsey & Company.
She holds an M.B.A. in Healthcare Management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in International Relations and Political Science from Yale University.