Sheila Mikhail's Email & Phone

Over the past two decades, Ms. Mikhail has founded and successfully operated several companies. Ms. Mikhail has been a co-founder of three biotech companies which have spun out of universities located in North Carolina, and has continued active involvement in each of these companies. In addition, Ms. Mikhail is on the business advisory board for BioResource International, an agra-bio company spun-out of North Carolina State University. She is an attorney by training, with a law degree from Northwestern University. Ms. Mikhail worked for Ropes & Gray in Boston and Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City, before starting her own law firm, Life Sciences Law, PLLC in Research Triangle Park, NC. The firm advises some of the world's largest biotech and pharmaceutical companies such as Bayer HealthCare LLC and Aventis SA, as well as earlier stage companies such as BioStratum, InnerOptic Technology, Nobex, Invitrox, and Karyogen on a variety of intellectual property and corporate matters. She has an MBA (concentration in finance) from the University of Chicago, and has worked as a management consultant for A.T. Kearney and Arthur Andersen, where she advised several of the Fortune 100 on operational and strategic matters. Ms. Mikhail has been an executive-in-residence for the TEC program at NC State and has been a lecturer for the Launching the Company course at UNC.