Adinvest AG is a Zurich based financial advisory and private equity investment firm. Ms. Sunderland specializes in life sciences investments and advises various international companies. Before joining Adinvest, Ms. Sunderland was global vice president at ABB, the multinational engineering group, responsible for Corporate Finance until 2000 and Value Services until 2002. Prior to joining ABB in 1992, Ms. Sunderland was a founding managing director of SFS in London, a financial services advisory firm specializing in leveraged buy-outs and corporate reconstruction. Previously she was a director of Corporate Finance at Elders Finance Group (now Fosters Brewing), arranging leveraged buy-outs and mezzanine debt. Ms Sunderland co-established the London subsidiary of Elders Finance Group after relocating from Australia where she was head of Credit for the Group. Ms. Sunderland holds degrees from Stanford and Johns Hopkins Universities.