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Seidenberg Named ‘Woman of Year’ by Industry Group

Beth Seidenberg, the founding managing director of Westlake Village BioPartners, was selected as the 2022 Woman of the Year by the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association.

Seidenberg is a longtime life sciences expert who has invested in and incubated more than 20 biotech ventures since 2005. She has held leadership roles at Amgen, where she was a chief medical officer and head of global development, and at Bristol Myers Squibb and Merck Research Laboratories.

Seidenberg sees the current era as the golden age of biotech.

“The pace and quality of innovation has hit an inflection point,” Seidenberg said in a statement. “With Westlake Village BioPartners, we have the freedom and expertise to turn the next big technologies into products and companies that benefit human health.”

Westlake Village BioPartners has played leading roles in financing for Woodland Hills-based biopharma company Acelyrin and Thousand Oaks-based Capsida Biotherapeutics.

Seidenberg along with other honorees “exemplify the personas of a new era of leadership,” the association said in a statement.

A celebration for the honorees will be held in person in New York City on May 10 and will be broadcast virtually.

Antonio Pequeño IV
Antonio Pequeño IV
Antonio “Tony” Pequeño IV is a reporter covering health care, finance and law for the San Fernando Valley Business Journal. He specializes in reporting on some of the biggest names in the Valley’s biotechnology sector. In addition to his work with the Business Journal, Tony has reported with BuzzFeed News on the unsupervised use of Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition technology. Tony, who also conducts freelance reporting, graduated from the USC’s Master of Science in Journalism program in 2021. He is in his fifth year as a journalist as of 2021.

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