Speakers

Anne DeGheest
Founder
Medstars

Anne DeGheest is managing partner at Medstars Ventures Partners that she founded in 1986.  She is a mentor capitalist specializing in investing and mentoring early-stage start-ups in healthcare. The life science companies for which she has been a founder or an early advisor have generated over $6 billion in market capitalization and have raised over $500 million in venture capital.  She provided angel capital, hands-on operating expertise and business strategy in the founding of major companies like Pyxis (Cardinal), Aspect medical, Pro-Duct (Cytyc/Hologic), VISX (AMO), Thermage (Solta Medical), VISICU(Philips), Masimo. She also helped grow new entrepreneurial division of large corporations like Johnson & Johnson, Baxter, Medtronic and McKesson. She was also part of the founding executive team of Nellcor (Covidien), MedPool and OmniCell. Anne is on the board of directors of Immersion Corp. (IMMR), Catheter Connection and Life Science Angels, Inc. where she is the chair of the device screening committee. She is an early investor and advisor to Pixel Optics, Visioneering and other early stage medical devices. She was an Entrepreneur-In-Residence with Institutional Venture Partners and started her career at Raychem after receiving an MBA from Harvard and a MS from University of Brussels.