The CEO of a Triangle company that was acquired last year in a deal that could reach $4 billion has earned national honors from Ernst & Young.
Sheila Mikhail, CEO and co-founder of AskBio, has been named the 2021 Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner. The award comes in the wake of Bayer AG (OTCMKTS: BAYRY) acquiring the gene therapy company. Mikhail, along with acclaimed scientist Dr. Jude Samulski, started the company in 2001.
"There was a lot of skepticism about gene therapy,” Mikhail told EY about starting the company. “But we were committed to our goal of advancing genetic therapy treatment, which we believed could treat a broad range of ailments where traditional medicine had failed.”
She stuck to the "long game" and consistently found ways to keep the business going, and funded. The results have paid off – big time.
TBJ named Samulski Business Person of the Year in 2020.