Manon Decelles, CPA

Founder and Managing Director

A strategic thinker, Manon Decelles has over 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry gained in senior strategic roles in finance, marketing, strategy, business development, and M&A.

In 2018, she founded Pharmdside Strategic Business Advisors, a boutique advisory and consulting firm assisting pharmaceutical companies driving growth through strategic partnerships, becoming Business Development Advisor to several pharmaceutical companies’ C-suites.

Prior to founding Pharmdside, she managed the commercialization of a wide range of healthcare products and worked on numerous licensing agreements and acquisitions, generating hundreds of millions of dollars in deal value, at leading pharmaceutical companies including Aventis, Sanofi, Pharmascience, and McKesson, a Fortune 500 company.

Manon holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Montreal, HEC, and is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA).

She is also serving as past President of the Canadian Healthcare Licensing Association (CHLA) and also serves on the board of Directors of the International Pharmaceutical Licensing Society (IPLS), a group of 9 European licensing associations.