Biography
Kelly Constable is a senior business executive offering 20 years of international commercialisation expertise in life sciences. Kelly’s expertise includes eight years leading breakthrough digital applications in precision medicine in the US and EU. She has a proven track record driving value in a top global biotech organization, through partnerships with multinational corporations and as a strategic thinker on startup Boards and teams.
Currently, Kelly is the Co-Founder and CEO of AULUS Partners, dedicated to accelerating commercialisation of high potential life sciences and med tech companies. She is the Chief Strategy Officer for Omico, a precision oncology clinical trials platform. She joined OneVentures Healthcare Fund as a part-time Venture Partner to focus on internationalising existing portfolio companies and to identify new opportunities. She serves on the Board of Directors of Prota Therapeutics, Oculo, and ANDHealth. Kelly serves as an expert advisor and commercial lead to NSW Health Gene Therapy and Manufacturing Initiative and she serves on the Investment Committee of the NSW Medical Device Fund.
Kelly developed her expertise at Abbott Labs through various roles in sales and marketing across general medicine and specialty therapeutics. Kelly joined Amgen in 2006, a world leader in biotechnology. She led the launch of the Sureclick autoinjector in 2006 and repositioned Aranesp after a FDA label change and led the US launch strategy for Prolia in osteoporosis in 2009, each >$1B annual sales products. More recently, Kelly led the global launch strategy for Aimovig in migraine through 2016.
Kelly developed her expertise in digital health and precision medicine when she was asked by Amgen to create a dedicated US innovation unit. In this role, she led and negotiated Amgen’s first technical alliance with GE Healthcare and through this strategic partnership, developed and launched the first point of care software algorithm in osteoporosis, deployed initially in the US and now globally. Next Kelly co-founded Amgen’s first precision oncology initiative as a start-up inside Amgen, developing a novel algorithm for anaemia in cancer, raising $20M of seed funding and managing Amgen’s first commercial software team with 50 cross-discipline experts in mathematics, software, biotech, regulatory, operations, and commercialisation. She oversaw the development and implementation of Amgen’s first software medical device solution in Germany which has since been launched in multiple countries across Europe. Kelly also served as the expert advisor in digital health to Amgen Ventures, the company’s Corporate Venture Fund, reviewing opportunities and participating in funding transactions.
In 2016, Kelly left corporate life after 20 years to become a full-time entrepreneur. She founded AULUS Partners with a mission to embrace start-ups that harness the potential to transform healthcare issues on a global scale. Currently AULUS is associated with four portfolio companies in the USA.
