About me

When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. Eventually, I discovered that biochemistry wasn’t my strength, technology fascinated me, and I had a decidedly geeky streak. My interest in helping people live healthier lives stayed with me; I just found a different way to pursue it.

That path has taken me through Microsoft’s Health Solutions Group, genomics and diagnostics, elder care, and early-stage health-tech companies. I’ve worked on product strategy, commercialization, and partnerships, learning to look at the same problem from the perspectives of the business, the people using the product, and the organizations responsible for delivering it.

Across those settings, I’ve learned how much depends on the connections between functions. A commercial challenge can reveal a product gap. A promising partnership can stall over implementation. A solution that makes sense to a buyer may be difficult for someone to fit into their day. I’m cross-functional by nature, and I’m drawn to work that requires understanding those connections — and taking responsibility for moving it forward.

Today, I work with health-tech companies on a fractional and contract basis, helping them understand what’s limiting traction, make commercial decisions, and put those decisions into practice. My breadth helps me ask questions across product, commercial, and operations, then bring the right people together to act on what we learn.

My perspective also comes from work outside traditional health tech companies. I’m on the founding team at Kōkūn, a nonprofit focused on how invisible health conditions are seen, understood, and healed, and I’m the former board chair of Blossom, which supports families on their parenting journey. I’m also a registered yoga teacher and health coach. Although I rarely teach now, that training still shapes how I think about adoption: what we ask people to change, what makes that change difficult, and what support makes it possible.

Those questions belong in commercial strategy. They help explain whether a product will find a lasting place in someone’s life, and what it will take to get there.

My education

Tufts University School of Medicine: MS, Health Communication

Bentley University: MBA, Technology

Smith College: BA, Biology