Guadalupe Hayes-Mota (LGO ’16)

Guadalupe Hayes-Mota is an award-winning healthcare leader transforming organizations across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. Guadalupe is currently the CEO and Founder of Healr Solutions, a company developing technology to solve the most urgent issues in biopharmaceutical supply chains. Previously, he directed the manufacturing and distribution of 17 medications to 98 countries at several biotechs (Ultragenyx, Biogen, Amgen & GSK), supplying millions of patients with medicine. Before entering biotech, Guadalupe ran the largest free healthcare system in the nation (UCLA Health) that provided over 30,000 underserved patients with care every year. While at RAND Corporation, he worked with the US government to help develop and implement the Affordable Care Act during the Obama Administration that gave access to 20 million people with healthcare.

In 2021, Governor Charlie Baker appointed Guadalupe to the newly formed Massachusetts Rare Disease Advisory Council to advise the Governor, Senate, House of Representative, & Department of Public Health on rare disease policy in Massachusetts. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Fenway Health, Save One Life, and the MIT LBGTQ+ Alumni Association, which he refounded and led as President.

Guadalupe has been recognized by Business Insider as one of six powerful LGBTQ+ executives to have on corporate boards; by PharmaVoice, who named him as one of the 100 Most Inspiring People in the Life Science Industry; and was named to the Boston Business Journal 40 under 40.