Estefi Alvarez, Phd

Estefi has been the Co Chair of the MedtechWOMEN Programming Committee, active leader since 2021. She is a patient-centered business strategist and advisor with a tenure of leadership translating long term strategy to execution, enabling healthcare transformation in the medical devices, healthtech and life sciences industry. Estefi has a unique blend of engineering, clinical, strategy, management consulting and BD background with her tenure both in industry and consulting. Estefi is a Manager at Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice at Simon-Kucher Partners, the world’s leading pricing and growth specialist that unlocks better growth that drives measurable revenue and profit for healthcare companies, providers, payers and investment firms. Estefi is also an entrepreneur in Residence at Yale Ventures serving as an advisor guiding innovative startups through development. Prior to Simon-Kucher, Estefi was a Principal at Alira Health, leading the Global Medtech consulting and market access team. Estefi is a proactive leader that seeks out and establishes long lasting relationships with decision makers within industry, providers, policy makers. Estefi assists global companies to unlock, implement and execute actionable growth strategies for value creation and to fast-track innovation and commercialization to bring patient centric technologies to market, expand patient access, improve clinical outcomes and reduce cost to the healthcare system. Prior to Alira Health, she spent 8 years at Hologic, a women’s healthcare company, working across the Breast & Skeletal and Gynecologic Divisions spearheading organic R&D Innovation, and inorganic innovation with the BD team. She drove revenue and profit-critical decision making for product portfolio/pipeline, M&A and licensing/distribution deals that strengthen the core and adjacencies leading to several acquisitions within women’s health. Estefi has experience in developing, assessing and commercializing across a broad range of products and services across diagnostic and minimally invasive treatment applications, and an innovator at heart with four patents. Estefi holds a PhD in Bioengineering from Clemson University, a M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Alfred University and a B.S in Engineering Science from Smith College, born and raised in Ecuador. She also is an active mentor for startup companies & accelerators. She also active in the investment community as a SomosVC Fellow, EIR at Yales Ventures advising startup companies, and she is the co-chair of the MedtechWOMEN Programming Committee and LGBTQ+ organizations.