Melya Hughes Crameri

Melya Hughes Crameri is a Partner at Ventac Partners, where she has served as the founding partner of the firm's London, UK office since 2015. Over a 25-year career in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, she has held chief executive, CXO, and board-level positions across Europe and the United States. As a life sciences entrepreneur and executive, Crameri has successfully secured more than $150 million in funding for various ventures and negotiated over $80 million in high-value government contracts. Her transactional experience includes preparing companies for public listing on the SIX Swiss Exchange and engaging with major institutional entities such as the European Investment Bank and the European Investment Fund. Drawing on her extensive operational background, Crameri currently focuses on building, consulting, and securing venture capital investments for early-stage biotechnology companies.