Ms. Buford is a Senior Advisor at Candor Partners. With more than 26 years of full-time working experience, she has specialties in Marketing and Product Development, and is a Brand expert in the Global Life Sciences Industry. She is currently a Group Marketing Leader in Life Sciences & Laboratory Products at Thermo Fisher Scientific, a leading global Life Sciences company with nearly $45.0 billion in revenue. During her career in the Life Sciences industry, she has spent many years formulating various Marketing, Brand, Pricing, and Product development strategies and executing them, along with implementing various strategic initiatives in the Life Sciences industry. Previously, she was a Director of Marketing Strategy & Cross-Divisional Execution at Abbott Laboratories, Inc., as well as a Director of Global Strategy & International Marketing Leader at Eli Lilly & Company for its Neuroscience business. Ms. Buford also led various Strategic Marketing strategies and implementations at Astellas Pharma US as its Director of Strategic Marketing, Communications & Advocacy, and Marketing Leader of its Overactive bladder franchise, including the category-leading VESIcare and Myrbetriq brand launch. Ms. Buford has completed the Post Graduate Leadership Development Program (EDP) at Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, and obtained her MBA from Florida A&M University in Management & Marketing.