Our Consultant
Dr. Veena Thomas
Dr. Veena Thomas is a strategy aficionado. When she’s not moonlighting as a small business strategic marketing consultant, she is a scientist and a drug discovery strategic consultant. She received her postdoctoral training at Stanford, her Ph.D. from UCSF in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics, and her B.S. in Biology from MIT. Her relentless strategy was instrumental in achieving her training at top universities and labs, and in building a career in science that she absolutely loves.
No stranger to the art of business pivoting in difficult circumstances, when a serious knee injury during the pandemic prevented her from working a traditional 9-5 job, she started not one but 4 consulting businesses. She is also the CEO and strategic consultant of her drug discovery strategic consulting company, DrugAbility. She also does short-term advisory consults for drug discovery companies.
She’s thrilled to share what she’s learned about pivoting to help small business owners struggling during the pandemic, and has found it extremely rewarding to watch small business owners thriving and happy in their businesses after she gives them strategic business marketing advice — uniquely tailored to them and their strengths.
When all that strategic thinking gets tiring, Veena has performed improv comedy for the past 5 years (where there’s actually no time to think!). She prides herself on being a fun-loving, outgoing and charismatic scientist (yes it’s possible!), leader, and communicator, and quick-on-her-feet thinker.
She is passionate about helping people, scientific and business marketing strategy, bold ideas, and writing, and accordingly was awarded both an NIH National Research Service Award (NRSA) postdoctoral grant and an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for her idea proposals. Her students voted her “Teaching Assistant of the Year” at UCSF for her skill and enthusiasm for teaching and mentorship.
Veena definitely collects unique experiences over possessions (41 years and still car-free!). Fun facts: Veena worked in forensic science for the FBI in Quantico, VA, where she received an FBI top-secret security clearance and weapons training; did a summer intensive training in improv comedy at Second City Chicago, where many of the Saturday Night Live cast trained; wrote a weekly opinion column for MIT’s newspaper for 3 years; was a co-organizer and event host for one of the largest hobby social meetup groups in the Bay Area for 3 years; and was a certified conflict mediator in the state of Massachusetts.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/veena-thomas-15579425/
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