Lisa Ryan

Board Member

Lisa Ryan is based in the Bay Area and has 25-plus years of human resource, talent management, and operations experience across multiple industries. Until mid-2023, Lisa was the chief people officer at Lyell Immunopharma, leading a team of 10. Lisa joined Lyell as one of its first 20 employees, built the people function from inception, and participated in all aspects of building the company, including a successful IPO in 2021, advancement of clinical development to Phase 1, and growth to an employee base of ~300 Lyellites across three sites in California and Washington. 

Prior to Lyell, Lisa spent 10 years with Genentech and held roles of increasing responsibility in US Commercial, Global Technical Operations, and Global Product Development. Lisa’s global roles included leading HR teams in a matrixed structure with team members in Europe, Asia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. She played a leadership role in several large transformation efforts, led global annual compensation processes, was a team member for the US HR five-year strategy, and was on integration teams for two significant acquisitions: Roche/Genentech and Roch/Intermune.

Before joining Genentech, Lisa was a vice president/group director of talent operations at Digitas, a digital and direct-advertising agency headquartered in Boston, and part of the Publicis group, with responsibility for talent operations in Boston, Chicago, and Detroit and support for the London and Atlanta offices. 

Early in her career, Lisa was employed by Greater Boston YMCA as a program director for after-school and summer camp programs serving school-aged youth from 6 to 14 years. For six summers, Lisa was the director of Adventure Camp, an active program for 10- to 14-year-olds focused on outdoor adventures including hiking, ropes courses, canoeing, swimming, and various field trips around the Boston area.

In the last year, Lisa has pursued an executive coaching certification, started coaching individual clients, began consulting work with a boutique talent management firm, ideated a women’s career transition community, and accepted a board role with us here at Gateway Mountain Center. Lisa received her B.A. in psychology from Boston College and holds an MBA from Suffolk University.