Venture Valkyrie

What Would Lisa Suennen Say? I view it as my role to partner with exceptional leaders seeking to thrive in a transforming world while building high value enterprises. As a venture capital investor, industry advisor, and entrepreneur, I focus on the worlds of innovation, digital transformation and frontier technologies. Basically Im looking for thos... e who want to break the rules to make business better, and especially the business of healthcare. My current role is leader of Manatt Phelps & Phillips digital and technology businesses, as well as the firms venture capital fund. My role spans technology across all sectors, though I am especially focused on healthcaree, engaging with payers, health systems pharma, medtech and emerging companies to provide strategic advice on innovation, digital strategy, investment/partnership models, new product design and growth. I also operate Venture Valkyrie, LLC, a media firm that houses this blog and the Tech Tonics podcast. Additionally, I am co-founder of CSweetener , a not-for-profit organization that uses technology and know-how to connect women new to and nearing the C-Suite with female and male mentors who have been there, done that and have a desire to give back. I am also on faculty at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business . I have served on numerous private and not-for-profit boards of directors throughout my career and am currently a Board Member of Health Reveal, HealthXL , and the Dignity Health Foundation . I am also currently a member of the Advisory Boards of the the California Health Care Foundation Innovation Fund, the NASA Translational Research Institute (where I serve as Chair). I am also a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Aspen Institutes Health Innovators Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and a member of the Editorial Board of Health Transformation , a peer-reviewed journal about the changing healthcare system. I previously served as a member of the Advisory Board of the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of the ...Read More