Mati Gill's exposure to the power of pharma collaboration can't be overstated. During his 11 years as COO of the Global Legal Group, and later, head of government affairs, corporate & international markets at Teva Pharmaceuticals, he was exposed to virtually every aspect of the business. When Teva made a concerted effort to build its corporate innovation strategy to strengthen its development platforms and pipeline, he was an undisputed pick to lead the exercise in support of Teva R&D for the Israeli pharma titan. As he helped make inroads with Israeli's academic and emerging life sciences ecosystems, a promising opportunity began to reveal itself and became the focus of his work: The roles of computational biology and artificial intelligence (AI) in drug discovery and development. Gill found the concept nascent among the next generation of innovators but hampered by the pharmaceutical industry at large.