Healthcare Leader · Bioethicist · AI Strategist

Guadalupe Hayes-Mota.

Guadalupe helps boards, executives, public institutions, and universities make consequential decisions where artificial intelligence, biotechnology, ethics, and access to medicine converge.

Work with Guadalupe Explore the work

2.3B+ people reached through medicine supply networks

Appointments, advisory & public voice

NIH Cures Acceleration Network European Commission OpenAI Forbes · Fast Company

Guadalupe Hayes-Mota outdoors along the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, MassachusettsHealthcare leader & educator

A life behind the work

For Guadalupe, access to medicine has never been theoretical.

Born in Zacatecas, Mexico, with severe hemophilia, he learned early what happens when lifesaving medicine exists but remains out of reach. His family immigrated to the United States when he was 13 in search of care. That experience became a lifelong commitment: make healthcare systems work for the people most likely to be left outside them.

His work has taken him from chemistry and literature to health policy, global operations, entrepreneurship, and bioethics.

Director, Bioethics Program Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University ↗

Senior Lecturer Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗

Presidential Appointee NIH Cures Acceleration Network Review Board

Founder & Former CEO Healr Solutions, an AI-powered biopharma platform acquired in 2024

Former SVP & Chief Supply Chain Officer Ultragenyx, following leadership roles at GSK and Biogen

AI & Biotechnology Advisor European Commission and OpenAI

Scale of impact

From medicine access to healthcare leadership.

Guadalupe has worked across scientific research, federal policy, global biopharma, entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence, and ethics. He draws on that experience when helping institutions make healthcare decisions.

His work has connected complex supply networks to billions of patients, scaled an AI company internationally, shaped public policy, and prepared the next generation of healthcare leaders.

2.3B+

people reached through global medicine supply networks

113

countries supported across healthcare operations

countries served by the AI platform he founded

$2.8B

in global supply spend overseen across biopharma leadership roles

Why leaders call

Advice for consequential healthcare decisions.

His advisory work draws on experience in science, technology, policy, and healthcare operations.

01 / BOARDS & EXECUTIVES

Responsible AI & bioethics

Governance, accountability, evidence, and human oversight for leaders deploying AI across healthcare and biotechnology.

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02 / STRATEGY & SCALE

Global biopharma leadership

Strategies that connect scientific breakthroughs to resilient operations, global supply networks, and reliable patient access.

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03 / STAGE & CLASSROOM

Keynotes & public leadership

Talks and learning experiences on the decisions shaping healthcare and biotechnology.

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Speaking & dialogue

Bring the hard questions into the room.

Guadalupe combines lived experience, executive judgment, and ethical clarity to make complex ideas urgent, understandable, and useful.

Responsible AI in healthcare and biotechnology Access to medicine and resilient supply chains Leadership shaped by lived experience

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Guadalupe Hayes-Mota speaking at a podium at MIT

Selected keynotes

Watch Guadalupe bring the ideas to life.

From responsible AI to global access and supply-chain resilience, these talks turn complex healthcare challenges into clear choices for leaders.

WCBP 2026 · Keynote

In their words

The work, seen by others.

Perspectives from people who have worked with Guadalupe in healthcare leadership, teaching, and public speaking.

Speaking

“…seeing him captivate the audience (even moving some to tears), and activating them to act on behalf of the patients that the pharmaceutical industry serves.”

Evaristo Rodriguez Pharmaceutical Industry Association of Puerto Rico · Annual Meeting keynote, 2024

Board leadership

“Guadalupe was instrumental in setting up the agenda for the board of directors, ensuring a strategic and effective approach to our financial planning and governance.”

Luis Rivera Former CFO, Fenway Health · Worked with Guadalupe as Board Treasurer and Finance Committee Chair

Teaching

“Professor Hayes-Mota is one of the best professors I have ever encountered in my academic career.”

Student Applied Ethics Internship: Healthcare · Santa Clara University course evaluation, 2026

Teaching & AI

“His lectures are engaging and thought-provoking, sparking lively discussions and debates among students…”

Akunna Rosser Senior Assistant Director, Prehealth Advising · MIT

Patient focus

“Guadalupe consistently centered the needs of our patients…”

Diego Martinez Former direct report · Healr Solutions

Ideas in public

Writing for the decisions ahead.

Guadalupe writes about the choices leaders face as AI and biotechnology move faster than the institutions responsible for them.

Forbes · AI

AI and Drug Development Decisions: A Framework for Accountability

Read at Forbes ↗ Forbes · Neurotech

The Brain Is the Next Platform—But Many Executives Aren’t Ready

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Using the CARES Framework to Build Ethical Biotech Startups

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Families Like Mine Depend on Their Local Pharmacy—for Medicine and Survival

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How to Transform Scientific Discoveries Into Better Treatments

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Transforming Pharmaceutical Supply Chains: A Connected Approach for Enhanced Drug Delivery

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Selected recognition

Named by Business Insider among six powerful LGBTQ+ executives for boards · Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40 · National Academy of Engineering speaker

Public voice

Published or featured in Forbes · Fast Company · STAT · MIT Technology Review · The Boston Globe · National Academy of Engineering publications

Education

Education across disciplines.

Study in science, literature, engineering, business, and public policy informs Guadalupe’s work in healthcare and ethics.

MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology

S.B. Chemistry S.B. Literature S.M. Engineering Systems M.B.A., MIT Sloan

Harvard Harvard Kennedy School

Mid-Career Master in Public Administration

Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy

Master of Public Policy

GWU George Washington University

Doctor of Engineering in AI & Machine Learning

Let’s talk

Bring Guadalupe into the room where the decision matters.

For inquiries about advisory work, speaking, teaching, or healthcare strategy, contact Guadalupe below.

gomota@alum.mit.edu

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Board & executive advisory Keynotes & media Teaching & research