Yakir joined Asymmetry Group after serving at Deloitte Consulting as a Managing Director in the Monitor Deloitte Strategy practice. He has worked in a variety of industries since originally joining Monitor Group in 1994, working on corporate and business unit strategy, commercial capability building, marketing and organic growth strategy, stakeholder management, new business development, leadership development, and organizational design. Yakir’s 20+ years of experience in life sciences spans a broad range of therapeutic areas and covers the full spectrum of the product lifecycle, from early commercial input through brand revitalization and lifecycle management. Yakir is a co-author of several articles on topics, including drug pricing and market access, a return on capital view of the US healthcare industry, and the role of business model innovation in MedTech. Yakir received an A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University, where his research focused on ultrafast laser spectroscopy, semiconductor physics, and nonlinear optics. Yakir and his wife live in Brookline and enjoy traveling around New England and visiting or being visited by their two daughters.
