About me.
Anna Gardarsdottir's background combines mathematical modeling, advanced analytics, transformation leadership, and executive-level delivery inside a fast-scaling biopharma company. She has led complex cross-functional initiatives, shaped digital and AI strategy, and worked across the organizational, operational, and leadership challenges that determine whether transformation efforts scale or stall.
That experience shaped a particular view of AI transformation: the hardest problems are rarely technical. Most organizations already have access to the tools. The challenge is deciding what the organization is actually trying to become, what needs to change to support it, and how leadership creates alignment across strategy, operating model, workforce, governance, and execution.
Her advisory work helps leadership teams move through those questions with structure and the executive-level perspective the situation requires.
2020–2026 Five years at Alvotech, a fast-scaling Icelandic biopharma company — first as a founding member of a process modeling innovation team within R&D, leading adoption of an advanced hybrid modeling platform across four scientist groups. Brought into a small task force reporting directly to the CEO to lead preparation for an FDA manufacturing inspection. Subsequently led a portfolio of strategic initiatives from the office of the CEO, including a learning and development platform and a major supply, demand, and financial planning software implementation.
2024–2025 Led the establishment of Fruman, a life science and biotechnology center in Iceland — bringing together research facilities, an innovation accelerator, an education program, and an investment fund.
2017–2020 Part of the core engineering team at a company building precision ball-tracking technology used across professional sport. Developed tracking algorithms in Python and C++, working across radar signal processing, applied physics, and mathematical modeling.
2016–2018 MSc Mathematical Modeling and Computation, Technical University of Denmark. Master's project in collaboration with Trackman and Adidas: modeling football free-kick mechanics from strike conditions.