Lisa Suennen, Gcb.D
About Lisa Suennen, Gcb.D
30+ Years of Healthcare and Team Leadership - living in the center of the Venn diagram between healthcare, entrepreneurship, and technology. Very comfortable coloring outside the lines. I love to lead and work alongside creative, exceptional talent to build high value healthcare enterprises that thrive in a transforming world. I have worked in and/or with all sides of the healthcare continuum (digital health/health IT/payer/provider/ health services /medical device/pharma); I have also worked on multiple sides of the business equation (executive/operations leadership, venture investor, strategy consultant, board member). As such, I think of myself as having a sort of Rubik’s Cube of healthcare knowledge that I can apply to new situations in a highly flexible way. From a practical standpoint, it means that I have an unusually broad perspective on the interplay among the different healthcare disciplines, the economics that drive them and the incentives that make buyers/decision-makers pay attention. I combine that knowledge with a broad skill set in executive and operational leadership, strategy/BD, sales & marketing, partnering, and fund-raising to deliver results, whether it's launching a new company or product, developing new go-to-market and partnering strategies, building a team and ensuring esprit de corps, accelerating growth in existing and/or new markets or raising capital. I'm keenly aware of the need for balancing strategy with the pragmatic realities of money and markets - a need that applies across early stage, growth and established companies. I draw energy from things that are new, different, transformative but also actionable. What I've Done: Executive/Operating Leadership, Venture Capital Partnership (Corporate Venture and Independent Funds), Strategy Consultant, Board Member, Advisor to companies large and small Other Activities: Advisor to Startup Companies, Venture Valkyrie blog (http://venturevalkyrie.com), Faculty at UC Berkeley/Haas, Frequent public speaker. Founder, CSweetener.org