Scott Hales, M.B.A.
Business Advisory Board Member

Scott Hales has three decades of experience leading financial operations, most recently in the biotechnology industry. He currently serves as Chief Financial Officer for Anavasi Diagnostics and Extend Biosciences, where he leads financial and commercialization initiatives. Prior to joining Anavasi, Scott was the Chief Financial Officer at Harris & Harris where he headed the accounting and finance group and worked to maximize sales revenue, cost management, pricing strategies and more.

As an investment banker, most of Scott’s 42 career transactions were at Citi Capital Strategies (then a division of Citigroup®), where he completed mergers and acquisitions, recapitalization, and capital raising deals valued at US$1 billion in the aggregate. Notable sector coverage as a corporate finance specialist and advisor to private enterprise has included life sciences/medical devices, professional and financial services, and software/IT. 

Scott received his B.B.A from the University of Notre Dame and his M.B.A from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.