Janine Terese Bryan is an accomplished scientific and strategic program leader whose career reflects a powerful combination of technical expertise, operational discipline, and purpose driven leadership. With extensive experience across global health, Big Pharma, academia, environmental science, and entrepreneurial ventures, she has built a reputation for turning complex ideas into structured plans, aligned teams, and measurable outcomes.
Throughout her career, Janine has worked at the intersection of science, strategy, and execution. Her background spans vaccine development, microbiology, genomics research, environmental innovation, and cross sector collaboration, giving her a broad perspective on how research, operations, and stakeholder engagement must come together to create meaningful progress.
Most recently, Janine founded With Gumption LLC, a dream to launch consulting practice based in Mercer Island, Washington. Through this venture, she helps clients clarify their vision, build actionable roadmaps, and move ideas from concept to implementation with courage, structure, and momentum.
As Founder and Principal Consultant, Janine partners with clients across business, nonprofit, and event-based contexts. Her work includes grant development, launch planning, milestone tracking, operations leadership, and thought partnership, blending mindset coaching with practical execution to help clients follow through on ambitious goals.
Prior to founding With Gumption, Janine served as Global Product Team Lead in Vaccine Development at Pfizer. In this role, she directed early and late-stage vaccine development programs, aligning scientific, clinical, regulatory, operational, and business development teams around shared objectives.
At Pfizer, Janine played a key leadership role in the Valneva and Pfizer Lyme disease vaccine partnership. She led strategic decision making, implementation planning, alliance governance, and committee coordination, helping deliver a pivotal Phase 3 efficacy readout that informed future regulatory and strategic planning for potential licensure in North America and Europe.
Janine’s scientific leadership also includes her ongoing role with Whooshh Innovations, where she has served as Scientific Advisor and previously as Vice President of Scientific Research. In this capacity, she led multidisciplinary teams across biology, fisheries, environmental science, and engineering to advance novel fish passage technologies from concept through prototype development, evaluation, and implementation.
Her work at Whooshh reflects her ability to bridge science, technology, and environmental stewardship. She helped drive cross sector collaboration, including work on AI enabled fish recognition systems, while supporting grant and contract proposals that funded research, engineering, and field deployment initiatives.
Earlier in her career, Janine brought her leadership skills into entrepreneurship as Business Manager and Co- Owner of Cave B Estate Winery and Vineyards. There, she oversaw operations, strategic planning, marketing, staffing, supply chain coordination, customer engagement, and business expansion, including opening a second tasting room and launching new revenue generating programs.
Janine’s foundation in science is equally distinguished. She held research and program leadership roles at the University of Washington in microbiology and genomics research, as well as at Merck Research Laboratories, where she lead the HPV vaccine research and clinical assays in end to end development through licensure and launch of a major vaccine product.
Her academic background includes a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis, an MBA from the University of Phoenix, and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Washington. She also completed postdoctoral fellowships in HPV research at Indiana University School of Medicine and in skin biology research at the National Institutes of Health.
Janine’s professional profile is strengthened by her record of 89 peer reviewed publications and six patents, reflecting both scientific depth and practical innovation. She has also pursued ongoing professional development in artificial intelligence fluency and project management, reinforcing her commitment to staying current in a rapidly changing world.
Beyond her formal roles, Janine has contributed meaningfully to professional and scientific communities. She has served on the Executive Committee of the Washington British Columbia Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, progressing through leadership roles including Vice President, President-Elect, and President.
At the heart of Janine’s work is a belief that courage and execution must move together. Whether leading vaccine programs, advancing environmental technologies, supporting entrepreneurs, or building operational systems, she brings clarity, collaboration, and determination to every initiative she leads.
Janine Bryan’s career demonstrates the value of combining scientific rigor with strategic thinking and human centered leadership. She is a trusted leader for organizations seeking to translate ideas into action, align diverse stakeholders, and create outcomes that improve health, strengthen systems, and support sustainable progress.
Character: Janine demonstrates courage, integrity, and persistence in the way she leads complex initiatives and supports others through change. Her commitment to meaningful progress reflects a leadership style grounded in purpose, accountability, and service.
Knowledge: Janine brings deep expertise across vaccine development, microbiology, genomics, environmental science, program management, and cross sector innovation. Her academic credentials, publications, patents, and industry experience reflect a rare combination of scientific authority and practical business insight.
Strategic: Janine excels at transforming complex objectives into clear strategies, actionable plans, and executed outcomes. Her leadership across Pfizer, Whooshh Innovations, Merck, academia, and entrepreneurship shows her ability to align teams, manage complexity, and deliver measurable results.
Communication: Janine is a collaborative communicator who builds trust across scientific, operational, executive, and external stakeholder groups. She is skilled at translating technical complexity into clear direction, shared understanding, and coordinated action.
