Arda Ural, PhD

As EY Americas Life Sciences Leader, Arda serves EY life sciences professionals across the Americas, helping them solve clients’ most pressing issues at the C-suite level.

Arda has a track record in pharma, biotech and medtech with 30 years of experience in general management, corporate strategy, commercialization, new product development, artificial intelligence-led business transformation and M&A.

Prior to joining EY, Arda was a Managing Director at a leading strategy firm. Earlier, Arda worked as a VP of Strategic Marketing and a BU Lead at a Fortune 500 medical technology company. He also served as the SVP Marketing & Sales for a startup biotechnology company. Arda started his career at a pharmaceutical company.

Arda was named a “Standout Leader” in the 2024 PharmaVoice 100. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, author of numerous thought pieces and is regularly interviewed by the media.

How Arda is building a better working world

“We live in a rapidly changing and inter-connected life sciences ecosystem. I work with our pharma, medtech, biotech and Private Equity clients to determine paths for value generation after taking into account both macro trends and company specific fundamentals across a broad spectrum of variables to bring meaningful impact to getting treatments to patients..”