About the Firm
Independent advice, where the disciplines converge.
Swift Strategy Group provides independent scientific, regulatory, quality, and strategic advice to organizations navigating complex questions, consequential risks, and opportunities requiring disciplined professional judgment.
Dr. Sibyl Swift Founder and Principal, Swift Strategy Group
02 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 an independent adviser 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.
03 Professional Philosophy
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.
Selected Leadership Experience
Three chairs, one practitioner.
Experience across government, industry, scientific organizations, and governance.
Her experience shaping regulatory science, research priorities, and policy now informs client decision-making.
-
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Associate Director for Research and Strategy, Office of Dietary Supplement Programs
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.
Agency reasoning is not inferred from the outside. It is understood from having done the work.
Her experience carrying P&L-adjacent accountability for science, safety, quality, and regulatory outcomes now informs what clients can realistically execute.
-
cbdMD
Chief Science Officer and Vice President of Regulatory Affairs
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.
Recommendations are shaped by someone who has had to execute them, resource them, and answer for them.
Her experience exercising board oversight and industry-wide scientific leadership now informs how clients prepare decisions for scrutiny.
-
Natural Products Association
Senior Vice President of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs
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.
-
cbdMD
Board Director
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
Co-Founder of a multidisciplinary scientific collaboration advancing evidence-based approaches to botanical safety and strengthening the scientific foundations of natural product evaluation.
She has not only prepared others to meet board scrutiny. She has applied it.
Swift Strategy Group
Founder and Principal
Founder and Principal of an independent advisory practice serving organizations requiring scientifically rigorous regulatory, technical, strategic, quality, and executive advice.
Advisory Focus
Advice 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.
- 01 Regulatory Science & Strategy
- Regulatory interpretation, agency engagement, policy analysis, submission strategy, enforcement risk, compliance planning, and science-based positioning across regulated product categories.
- 02 Scientific Evidence & Product Safety
- Evaluation of clinical, toxicological, analytical, and published evidence to support product development, substantiation, safety, risk assessment, and defensible scientific conclusions.
- 03 Executive & Board Advisory
- Independent advice for executive leadership, boards, investors, and legal teams confronting decisions with material scientific, regulatory, governance, or commercial implications.
- 04 Quality & Organizational Capability
- Quality systems, cGMP, documentation, corrective action, professional standards, regulatory readiness, and the development of durable organizational capability.
- 05 Innovation & Commercialization
- Product development, regulatory pathways, botanical and biotechnology innovation, scientific claims, market readiness, and the responsible translation of evidence into commercial value.
- 06 Professional Practice & Judgment
- Development of professional standards, decision frameworks, legally defensible reasoning, transparent communication, organizational learning, and stewardship of institutional knowledge.
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.
Experienced advice for complex decisions.
Every engagement begins with a framed question and a review for alignment and conflicts.