A decade ago, Lisa Suennen saw a dearth of investment professionals writing about the healthcare industry, so she created her
Venture Valkyrie blog.
Suennen’s blog became essential reading to anyone outside the Monday morning partners’ meeting, giving outsiders an inside look at the power and process of a healthcare VC.
Today, Suennen stands at the epicenter of a mini content-empire that includes blogging, the
Tech Tonics podcast, and her regular contributions to the Timmerman Report.
In addition to blasting a fire hose of content, Suennen recently accepted the post of senior managing director, healthcare at
GE Ventures, where she invests across the healthcare spectrum.
In this podcast, host Tom Salemi asks Suennen how Medtechers can learn from her example and find a way to deliver their essential messages to a broader audience.
Suennen also reveals what sort of Medtech companies GE Ventures wants to add to its portfolio.
Finally, she discusses
Csweetener.org, her new not-for-profit effort to match mentors with female executives interested in finding their way to healthcare’s most important posts.
Lisa Suennen
Senior Managing Director, Healthcare
GE Ventures
Lisa Suennen is Senior Managing Director at GE Ventures, leading the firm’s healthcare venture fund which invests in early-to-growth stage healthcare investments across health IT, health services and medical devices. She is also Managing Partner at Venture Valkyrie, LLC, a media and publishing firm. Lisa is also founder of CSweetener, a not-for-profit company focused on matching women new to the healthcare C-Suite with experienced mentors. Lisa is on faculty at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, where she teaches classes on healthcare venture capital.
Previously, Lisa was as a Partner at Psilos Group, a healthcare venture capital firm. Prior to Psilos, Lisa was an executive at Merit Behavioral Care, an $800mm behavioral healthcare company, from start-up through IPO and successful exit.
Lisa is a Board Member of Evidation Health, Health Reveal, Gravie, the Dignity Health Foundation and Heart to Heart International. She is an advisor to the CHCF Innovation Fund, the American Heart Association Innovation Think Tank, HealthXL and NASA’s Translational Research Institute. She is also an Aspen Institute Health Innovation Fellow and was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to the Advisory Council of State of California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine.
Lisa writes a widely read blog on healthcare and investing at http://venturevalkyrie.com and hosts the popular podcast Tech Tonics.
