Dr. Suzet M. McKinney currently serves as Principal and Director of Life Sciences at Sterling Bay, where she oversees relationships with the scientific, academic, corporate, tech and governmental sectors involved in the life sciences ecosystem. Suzet has decades of public health expertise and leadership in Chicago and across the country. She is a Board member of Susan G. Komen Chicago, Thresholds, Lurie Children’s Hospital, Wintrust Financial Corporation, Wintrust Investments, The Chicago Trust Company, and Great Lakes Advisors.

Suzet holds her Doctorate degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. She received her BA in Biology from Brandeis University where she was also a Howard Hughes Fellow. She received her Master of Public Health degree (Health Care Administration) and certificates in Managed Care and Health Care Administration from Benedictine University.