Penny Rossano

Penny Rossano is Managing Partner of a strategy consulting business she founded in 2002. Penny’s projects have included strategic, financial, and commercial-facing analyses in the life sciences and financial services industries. For the past 15+ years, Penny has primarily worked in the biopharmaceutical industry, supporting pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies as both a manager and individual contributor in projects in which finance, operations, and strategy overlap. In many projects, Penelope has leveraged her role as Program or Project Manager to support strategy development, set processes, drive teams, and execute against timelines and deliverables. Client size has spanned from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, nonprofit and for-profit companies. Prior to consulting, Penny worked in investment banking, including Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., Commerzbank, Goldman Sachs, and in management consulting firms, including McKinsey, Frankel Group (now Huron), and Blue Ridge Partners. In addition to her consulting practice, Penny served as Screening Committee Executive Officer for Mass Medical Angels, for which she managed the screening process for life sciences companies seeking angel funding.  

Penny is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with two advanced degrees—an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School of Business, and an MA in International Studies with a focus on Western Europe and the German Language and Culture from the university’s Lauder Institute. She also graduated from the University of Cambridge with an M.Phil. in Biological Anthropology. Her undergraduate studies were completed at Harvard College with a concentration in Biological Anthropology, A.B. cum Laude. Penny is holder of a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter. She is fluent in German.