Gary Fowler and Donna Edmonds: Raising Capital In Challenging Times
Silicon Valley Tech And AI With Gary Fowler
English - March 08, 2023 12:54 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Donna Edmonds.
Guest:
Donna Edmonds, CEO, BRAINBox Solutions Inc
Donna has 35+ years of healthcare experience bridging both the provider and industry segments of HealthCare. She began as critical care nurse, migrating to operations and hospital administration, was a GM of a large Specialty physician group practice and then was recruited to industry, in clinical and business leadership positions.
She spent 8+ years with Baxter Int. in senior (group) global executive positions in business development, sales and marketing of clinical products aimed at improving care and reducing health care costs. She has served in senior C level management roles for 10 diagnostic companies, focused on commercialization in her career and was in key leadership roles in two company exits.
She is a recognized leader in Cardiovascular Diagnostics, changing clinical practice in this space, as part of the discovery, development, and commercial launch of a series of the key diagnostic products in the field.
She is a founder of Virginia Life Sciences Investments, Inc. There they funded several international technology startups, and she led the Series A investment in ImmunArray, the original home of the broad portfolio of biomarkers for Neurological Disease Diagnosis, and Monitoring (including TBI). It was spun out in late 2018 to BRAINBox Solutions, where she is a founder and CEO.
She was a Governor appointed member of the Virginia Biotechnology Research Park Authority, serving for 9 years, and a member of the Board of the Intellectual Property Foundation of Virginia Commonwealth University, serving for 8 years.
She is an elected member of the Board of Directors of Bio Health Innovations, the founding member of the BioHealth Capital Region, the Board of Directors of SouthEast Life Sciences, and an active member of Va Bio. She is also an Advisor to Optivio Inc a Digital Health Platform as well as Back Bay Life Science Advisors.
She also serves on the investment committee and chairs the advancement committee for Chesapeake Academy, an independent school in the Northern Neck of Virginia.