Lisa Suennen

Lisa Suennen has spent over 35 years in healthcare and technology as venture capitalist, entrepreneur, operating executive, and strategy consultant. She has worked broadly across healthcare and life sciences, and especially where these sectors converge with technology.    Lisa is currently Managing Partner of American Heart Association Ventures, a multi-fund platform investing in companies across the full spectrum of healthcare and social determinants of health. Previously she held executive-level operating roles at Canary Medical, Merit Behavioral Care and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.  She has also held General Partner roles at several venture funds, including Manatt Ventures, Psilos Group and GE Ventures, where she led the healthcare venture fund and sat on the overall GE Ventures Investment Committee. Lisa was Co-founder and CEO of CSweetener, a company focused on matching mentors with rising healthcare leaders (sold to HLTH Foundation).  Lisa chairs the Scientific Advisory Board of the NASA -funded Translational Research Institute for Space Health and the International Investment Committee of the Australian & Victorian government-funded ANDHealth Digital Health Fund.  She is a Fellow of the Aspen Institute’s Health Innovators Fellowship and on faculty at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business where she teaches the annual class on healthcare innovation and investment.  Lisa writes the Venture Valkyrie blog and is an internationally recognized author and speaker.

Upcoming Events

• Speaker, MedtechVISION 2024 Panel 2: Bridging the Innovation Gap: Medtech Startups & Giants – A Collaboration for Success

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?
• Moderator, MedtechFORUM: Women’s Health in 2024 & Beyond – Women’s Health: Beyond the Bikini

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