Lisa Suennen

Lisa is Managing Partner of Venture Valkyrie LLC, a consulting firm advising large corporations around corporate venture capital & innovation, new business creation and digital health strategy. Lisa is also co-founder of CSweetener, which matches women in and nearing the healthcare C-Suite with mentors. She is also on faculty at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.

Previously Lisa was Senior Managing Director at GE Ventures, leading the firm’s healthcare fund. Prior to that, Lisa spent 15 years as a Partner at Psilos Group, a successful healthcare venture capital firm, and 9 years at Merit Behavioral Care, an $800mm behavioral healthcare company where she held various leadership roles from its early start-up days through its successful IPO and exit.

Lisa is currently on several private company boards and chairs the board of the NASA -funded Translational Research Institute for Space Health.

Lisa writes the Venture Valkyrie blog and hosts the Tech Tonics podcast.

Past Events

• Moderator, MedtechVISION 2018 – Panel 1: AI/Machine Learning/Big Data
• Speaker, Career Development: Navigating Your Career Strategically
• Speaker, Fueling Innovation: Perspectives on Driving a Start-up from Funding to Acquisition
• Speaker, The Path to the Board: Perspectives from Seasoned Leaders
• Moderator, MedtechVISION 2015 – Panel 4: The Gender-Specific Practice of Medicine
• Moderator, MedtechVISION 2014 – Panel 1: Transforming & Expanding the Setting of Health Care – How Medtech Can Prosper
• Moderator, MedtechVISION 2011 – Healthcare Costs and Innovation Panel – Friends or Foes?

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