Simon Gisby is a Senior Corporate Strategy and Mergers & Acquisitions Professional with more than 20 years of experience serving the life science and health care industries. Along with founding and leading the Life Science and Healthcare practice at Deloitte Corporate Finance LLC, he leads The Future of Health for Deloitte Risk and Financial Advisory and co-leads the Healthcare Strategy & Growth practice.

Gisby has advised on numerous strategies, affiliations, partnerships, and M&A engagements. He currently is focused on facilitating partnerships across the entire life science and health care ecosystem. His clients include global pharmaceutical and medical device companies, health insurance companies, health systems, health care information technology companies, and other health care providers.

He is a frequent contributor to and author of articles and publications on health care strategy and M&A, and he has been quoted in numerous national media outlets. Gisby is a member of the New York Security Analysts Society and The Association for Investment Management Research.

Laurel Braitman, Ph.D., is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and anthropologist of science. She is the first Writer-in-Residence and the Director of Writing and Storytelling for the Medicine & the Muse Program at Stanford University School of Medicine. Here, she helps medical students and physicians communicate more meaningfully — for themselves and their patients.

Braitman earned a Ph.D. in science, technology and society from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and she is a Senior TED Fellow and a 2019 National Geographic Explorer. Her last book, “Animal Madness,” was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into eight languages. Her next book, “House of the Heart,” is about growing up, mortality and how we might live with the perspective of a terminal disease without the dire prognosis. Her work has been featured on the BBC, NPR, Good Morning America and Al Jazeera. Her stories have appeared in The Guardian, Radiolab, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, National Geographic and other publications. She is a contributing writer and frequently performs live for Pop Up Magazine. Braitman also has taught interdisciplinary courses at Harvard, MIT, Stanford School of Medicine and Smith College, and she loves collaborating with musicians, physicians, scientists engineers and artists — helping them learn to communicate better with the audiences that matter most.

Braitman splits her time between the remote Alaskan wilderness and Berkeley, Calif., with her partner and a few million wild salmon.

Known as a dynamic, engaging speaker, Joe Mull teaches leaders and business owners how to be better bosses and create destination workplaces. He is the author of three books: “Cure for the Common Leader,” “No More Team Drama,” and his latest, “Employalty: How to Ignite Commitment and Keep Top Talent in the New Age of Work.” He is the host of the popular Boss Better Now podcast and founder of the BossBetter Leadership Academy.

Mull previously served as the head of Learning & Development for Physician Services at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where he directed learning strategy and implementation for one of the largest physician groups in the U.S. — more than 9,000 employees across 500+ locations. Before his years of service in health care, Mull spent a decade working in leadership and program development roles in higher education.

Mull earned a master’s degree from Ohio University and serves on the board of directors of the National Speaker’s Association. He has appeared as an expert in multiple media outlets, including Forbes, Fortune, Newsweek and the International Business Times. When he’s not speaking at conferences and meetings, Mull resides near Pittsburgh, Pa., with his wife, three children and a needy Dalmatian named Flash.

Mull holds the coveted Certified Speaking Professional™ (CSP®) designation from the National Speakers Association. Held by fewer than 20% of professional speakers worldwide, the CSP is the speaking profession’s international measure of speaking excellence and signals a proven track record of experience and expertise, as well as a commitment to outstanding client service and ethical behavior. The CSP designation is a signal that you’re working with an experienced, professional speaker.