Partner and Chief Partnerships Officer at Deerfield Management · Joined 2002
View Live Interactive Profile →Karen Heidelberger is a Partner and Chief Partnerships Officer at Deerfield and joined the firm in 2002. She is responsible for relationships with investors, partner companies, academic institutions and other parties, helped conceptualise and implement Cure, and is involved in the design and implementation of Deerfield's educational programming. She was a Trader at Deerfield for over a decade before this role. Before Deerfield she was a Vice President in the Sales and Trading division of Merrill Lynch and served as a Conflicts Coordinator in its Mergers and Acquisitions department. Her profile states over 22 years of experience in healthcare and over 28 years in finance. She helped establish the Deerfield-founded Break into the Boardroom and Science to the Street programmes and serves on the Board of NewYorkBIO. She graduated from the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration and holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a Master of Science in Strategic Communication from Columbia University.