Cutting loose from Merck, Mike Nally is ‘running toward a great opportunity’; Novartis partnership in hand, BeiGene promotes Julia Wang to CFO

When Mike Nally was an undergrad at Middlebury College in Vermont, he thought investment banking and finance was his “path to salvation.”

He graduated in 1998 with his bachelor’s in economics, then took a job at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, an investment bank later bought by Credit Suisse. He was…