Becca Shmukler
Becca Shmukler is a Principal at the Laerdal Million Lives Fund, a $100M venture fund investing in companies helping to save lives, where she focuses in part on investing in companies improving maternal and neonatal healthcare outcomes across the world.
Becca has worked in the healthcare industry for nearly a decade. She started her career as a strategy consultant for hospital and health system CEOs at the Advisory Board Company, before working in business development + partnerships roles at Castlight Health, a healthcare technology company, and Rock Health, a digital health investment fund. While at Rock Health, Becca grew strategic partnerships nearly 6x, and partnered closely with organizations like Google, CVS Health, Intermountain Healthcare, Optum and dozens of others on their healthcare innovation priorities. Becca hails from Washington, DC, but currently lives in San Francisco with her husband and her very spoiled dog.
Annie Theriault
Annie Theriault, Ph.D., CFA, ICD.D
Annie is the Chief Investment Officer of Grand Challenges Canada and the Managing Director of the EWEC Innovation Marketplace, an initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, NORAD, and USAID. Annie is also the Managing Partner of Cross-Border Impact Ventures, a new impact investment firm partnered with Grand Challenges Canada to launch a health technology venture capital fund focused on women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health investing with a gender lens. She is a Founding Member of The Big Push, an accelerator for women-led tech companies, and an advisor to Silver Maple Ventures, a Toronto-Based fintech company offering a full suite of solutions for private placements in early and growth stage companies. Prior to these roles, Annie spent most of her career investing in private companies as a venture capitalist and lender across multiple sectors and stages, including several impact investments.
Annie obtained her PhD in Management from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, is a CFA Charterholder and holds the ICD.D designation.
Smoke Wallin
Jake Hegeman
Matt D’Aloia
Mark Livings
Bill Ford
