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Lisa Conte is the CEO of PS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. In 2001, Conte founded PS Pharmaceuticals, a private pharmaceutical company focused primarily on the development and commercialization of a late stage product that treats the symptoms of multiple gastro-intestinal diseases. She has also facilitated plans to create innovative partnerships to provide for the potential availability of this product in resource-constrained settings. Conte also founded Shaman Pharmaceuticals, a natural product pharmaceutical company, having raised over $200 million in the endeavor. From 1987 to 1989 Conte was a vice president at Technology Funding, a venture capital firm where she was responsible for the analysis and management of health care industry investments. She conducted risk and strategy audits for start-up health care companies at Strategic Decisions Group, a management consulting firm, 1985-1987. She is the recipient of several entrepreneurship awards, including the 1994 E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and has sat on several industry boards. Conte earned her master′s in physiology/pharmacology at the University of California at San Diego and her MBA at the Amos Tuck School, Dartmouth College.