EXECUTIVE SPOTLIGHT
From Big Pharma to Startup: What are the Challenges? Sebby Borriello has had a fascinating ride. Even before he entered healthcare, he traded on his athletic skills and was drafted by the Minnesota Twins, where he played for several years. “Take a job or go with the MLB? No question,” he says. But of course, athletic careers don’t last long, and he eventually joined Johnson & Johnson, holding various positions in J&J Advanced Wound Care, J&J Biosurgicals, J&J Wound Management, and J&J Health Care Systems. He also worked at J&J subsidiaries Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical and Ethicon, along with Mentor Worldwide LLC, a subsidiary of Ethicon. In 2016, he brought the SEBBY BORRIELLO VP & Chief Commercial Officer SK Life Science, Inc. 9 | HS&M NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020
vast library of knowledge and skills he had attained in those positions to a new challenge at SK Life Science, Inc., a startup biotech: to evolve the company from a drug discovery and R&D-only entity to a commercial organization. When he got the offer from SK life science, Sebby says he asked himself two questions: “Can I learn from the opportunity, and
