About Swift Strategy Group

Scientific leadership for decisions that matter.

Swift Strategy Group provides independent scientific, regulatory, quality, and strategic counsel to organizations navigating complex questions, consequential risks, and opportunities requiring disciplined professional judgment.

Professional portrait of Dr. Sibyl Swift
Dr. Sibyl Swift
Founder and Principal, Swift Strategy Group
Leadership

Dr. Sibyl Swift

Regulatory Scientist · Executive Advisor · Professional Practice Leader

Dr. Sibyl Swift advises executive teams, boards, investors, scientists, and legal counsel where scientific evidence, regulatory obligations, enterprise strategy, and commercial execution converge.

She is a regulatory scientist and executive leader with more than 15 years of experience developing and leading science-based strategy across the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, industry, nonprofit organizations, biotechnology, and board governance.

Her work is distinguished by the disciplined integration of scientific knowledge, regulatory expertise, strategic judgment, and practical execution. She supports organizations confronting complex matters involving dietary supplements, food and beverage products, botanicals, cannabinoids, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, clinical research, toxicology, product safety, quality systems, current good manufacturing practices, and commercialization.

Dr. Sibyl Swift founded Swift Strategy Group on the belief that clients deserve more than technical answers. They require independent counsel capable of evaluating evidence objectively, identifying material risks, communicating uncertainty honestly, and developing strategies that withstand scientific, regulatory, legal, and commercial scrutiny.

Her advisory approach is collaborative but independent, rigorous but practical, and grounded in the understanding that the quality of an outcome begins with the quality of the professional judgment used to reach it.

Professional Philosophy

A disciplined approach to professional practice.

Professional excellence is achieved through the consistent application of disciplined judgment. The quality of a recommendation depends not only upon the conclusion reached, but upon the integrity, rigor, transparency, and professional responsibility of the reasoning that produced it.
Advisory Focus

Counsel at the intersection of science, regulation, and strategy.

Dr. Sibyl Swift works with organizations whose most consequential decisions cannot be resolved through one discipline alone.

Regulatory Science & Strategy

Regulatory interpretation, agency engagement, policy analysis, submission strategy, enforcement risk, compliance planning, and science-based positioning across regulated product categories.

Scientific Evidence & Product Safety

Evaluation of clinical, toxicological, analytical, and published evidence to support product development, substantiation, safety, risk assessment, and defensible scientific conclusions.

Executive & Board Advisory

Independent counsel for executive leadership, boards, investors, and legal teams confronting decisions with material scientific, regulatory, governance, or commercial implications.

Quality & Organizational Capability

Quality systems, cGMP, documentation, corrective action, professional standards, regulatory readiness, and the development of durable organizational capability.

Innovation & Commercialization

Product development, regulatory pathways, botanical and biotechnology innovation, scientific claims, market readiness, and the responsible translation of evidence into commercial value.

Professional Practice & Judgment

Development of professional standards, decision frameworks, legally defensible reasoning, transparent communication, organizational learning, and stewardship of institutional knowledge.

Selected Leadership Experience

Experience across government, industry, scientific organizations, and governance.

Dr. Sibyl Swift brings a perspective informed by federal regulatory leadership, corporate executive responsibility, scientific collaboration, industry advocacy, and board service.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Former Associate Director for Research and Strategy within FDA’s Office of Dietary Supplement Programs, contributing to regulatory science, research priorities, policy development, and strategic program leadership.

cbdMD

Former Chief Science Officer and Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, with responsibility for scientific strategy, regulatory affairs, product safety, quality, clinical research, and organizational decision-making.

Natural Products Association

Former Senior Vice President of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs, advising industry stakeholders on science, policy, regulatory compliance, and matters affecting dietary supplements, foods, and natural products.

Board Governance

Board Director at cbdMD, contributing scientific, regulatory, governance, risk-management, and enterprise perspectives to board oversight and strategic decision-making.

Botanical Safety Consortium

Co-Founder of a multidisciplinary scientific collaboration advancing evidence-based approaches to botanical safety and strengthening the scientific foundations of natural product evaluation.

Swift Strategy Group

Founder and Principal of an independent advisory practice serving organizations requiring scientifically rigorous regulatory, technical, strategic, quality, and executive counsel.

Foundation

Scientific training strengthened by leadership and stewardship.

Scientific Education

Ph.D. in Nutrition from Texas A&M University, providing a foundation in nutritional science, research, evidence evaluation, and the biological principles underlying product safety and human health.

Executive Leadership

Experience leading scientific, regulatory, quality, clinical, and cross-functional programs within organizations facing significant operational, reputational, governance, and commercial decisions.

Professional Stewardship

A commitment to developing durable standards, preserving institutional knowledge, strengthening professional judgment, and leaving organizations and professions stronger than they were found.

Discuss Your Scientific or Regulatory Challenge

Swift Strategy Group welcomes the opportunity to understand your objectives and explore how independent scientific, regulatory, quality, and strategic counsel can support your organization.

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