Sutha Satkunarajah

Sutha Satkunarajah is Vice President of Strategy and Operations for Flagship Pioneering in the UK. In this capacity, Sutha spearheads the long-term strategic planning and operational execution for Flagship’s expansion into the UK. He is responsible for fostering connections between the UK's robust value pools and Flagship’s ecosystem of business origination units, initiatives, and more than 40 companies that are primarily based in Boston. He leads the 'UK Data as an Asset' initiative, managing partnerships with key data players like UK Biobank, and has launched Flagship's first R&D ecosystem partnership with the Cambridge UK life sciences ecosystem. Additionally, he supports Flagship’s policy, capital formation, and talent development efforts in the UK.

Before this, Sutha was the Senior Director for Flagship’s Preemptive Medicine and Health Security Initiative, where he coordinated the development, launch, and management of efforts aimed at creating a new generation of companies focused on preempting, predicting, preventing, and/or delaying novel pathogens and chronic diseases.

Sutha brings extensive experience in healthcare, strategy, and operations. Prior to joining Flagship, he led the Program Management Office for REACT, one of the largest COVID-19 surveillance programs in the UK. In this role, Sutha coordinated a team of Principal Investigators, liaised with the Department of Health and Social Care, and collaborated with the regulatory body MHRA to facilitate the delivery and analysis of over 3 million COVID-19 tests, providing critical insights for UK government policy during the pandemic.

Previously, Sutha was a Principal at the healthcare consulting firm Carnall Farrar, where he led the analytics for Lord Darzi’s review of Health and Care in 2018, which helped secure significant funding for the National Health Service (NHS). He has directed major transformation programs across various NHS organizations, accountable care footprints, and at Bupa, a health insurer. Earlier in his career, he worked as an analyst at Oliver Wyman, a management consulting firm, and at HgCapital, a European private equity firm.

Sutha holds a BA in Cognitive Science from Harvard College and was an Innovation Fellow at the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College from 2019 to 2021. He also serves as a Governor of his former secondary school, Tiffin School, in Kingston, UK.