Anne DeGheest

Anne DeGheest pioneered the HealthTech or Digital Health space as a healthcare executive, entrepreneur, angel investor, corporate advisor, and mentor capitalist. She is the founder of HealthTech Capital and MedStars. She organizes and moderates the HealthTech Conference on how to successfully build innovative HealthTech businesses and change healthcare delivery.

Since she founded MedStars in 1986, DeGheest has been a corporate development advisor to large healthcare companies and a mentor capitalist specializing in investing and mentoring early-stage companies in healthcare. Her life science portfolio companies have generated over $27 billion in market capitalization, including 8 IPOs. She provided angel capital, hands-on operating expertise, and business strategy in the founding of major venture-backed companies like Pyxis (CareFusion), Aspect Medical (acquired by Covidien), VISX (acquired by AMO), Thermage (merged into Solta Medical), VISICU (acquired by Phillips), Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI). She also helped grow new entrepreneurial divisions of large corporations like ASP/Johnson & Johnson, Baxter, Medtronic, and McKesson. She was part of the founding executive team of Nellcor (a division of Covidien), MedPool, and OmniCell (Nasdaq: OMCL), and an Entrepreneur-In-Residence with Canaan Partners and IVP.

DeGheest founded HealthTech Capital in 2010, a group of private investors dedicated to funding and mentoring new "HealthTech" startups to decrease healthcare cost and empower patients. HealthTech capital is an ecosystem of angels, venture capitalists, providers, payors, and healthcare industry key players with the three sets of expertise needed to succeed in this new HealthTech space: healthcare, technology, and user engagement.

A frequent speaker at industry conferences and a guest-lecturer at Stanford Business School, DeGheest has an MBA from Harvard and a Master in Business Engineering from University of Brussels. She is also a recognized artist.