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With more than 30 years of pharmaceutical industry experience, Melissa Waetjen helps clients maintain a big picture perspective while overseeing the details of projects.

Her passion for transforming strategy into actionable implementation plans grew during her tenure in R&D, commercial, IT, business development, and consulting roles across large and small pharma companies, biotechs, and start-ups. Today, Archbow clients benefit from her expertise in global program and project leadership, business process improvement, product launch, alliance management, and system implementation.

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Over the course of her career, Melissa has developed a deep understanding of the drug development process from R&D, through commercialization, and on to loss of exclusivity. She holds a BS in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Irvine, an MBA from the University of Phoenix, and is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP).  Before joining Archbow, Melissa worked at GSK, Pfizer, Endo, and North Highland.

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Melissa lives in Philadelphia with her husband, who was her high school sweetheart.  They have two grown sons.  When she’s not managing projects for clients, she’s overseeing a vast assortment of personal projects – from flipping houses to making jewelry to upcycling old furniture.