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, medical technology and life science technologies.

Lisa is also Managing Partner at Venture Valkyrie, a media and publishing company,  and co-founder of CSweetener, a not-for-profit company focused on matching women in and nearing the healthcare C-Suite with mentors who have been there and wish to give back. She is a member of the faculty at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, where for 10 years she has taught classes on venture capital and the changing healthcare economy.

Previously Lisa operated Venture Valkyrie Consulting for 3 years, advising large corporations around corporate venture capital and digital health strategy. Prior to that she spent 15 years as a Partner at Psilos Group, a successful healthcare-focused venture capital firm. Prior to Psilos, Lisa helped build Merit Behavioral Care (formerly American Biodyne, Inc), an $800mm behavioral healthcare company where she held various leadership roles from its early start-up days through its successful IPO and exit. Previously, Lisa held various positions in marketing and product management in companies in the high technology field.

Lisa is currently a Board Member of of Evidation Health, Health Reveal, Gravie, the Dignity Health Foundation,and Heart To Heart International.  She is also on the Advisory Boards of the California Health Care Foundation Innovation Fund, the American Heart Association Innovation Think Tank, global digital health organization HealthXL and NASA’s Translational Research Institute, which is focused on innovative approaches to reduce risks to humans on long-duration exploration missions, including NASA’s Journey to Mars. Lisa is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Aspen Institute’s Health Innovators Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Lisa writes a widely read blog on healthcare and healthcare investing at http://venturevalkyrie.com. She published her first book in 2013: Tech Tonics, Can Passionate Entrepreneurs Heal Healthcare with Technology, coauthored with Dr. David Shaywitz. Together they also host a popular podcast, also called Tech Tonics, focused on the people and passion at the intersection of technology and health. Lisa an M.A. in political science, a B.A. in political science and a B.A. in mass communications, all from the University of California, Berkeley.