Karimah Es Sabar

Karimah Es Sabar is a biotech and pharmaceutical visionary, whose lifelong love of chemistry has led her around the world. She co-founded her first pharma marketing and distribution company at age 26 before immigrating to Canada. She led BC Biotech, later LifeSciences BC, investing $1.5 billion in pharmaceutical companies and research centres during her tenure. She is one of Canada’s first female life-sciences fund managers, co-founding Quark Venture in 2016. With Chinese investment bank GF Securities Co, the Vancouver-based venture capital firm runs a US$500-million fund focused on disruptive and innovative health-care technologies worldwide.