Anne DeGheest

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Ms. Anne DeGheest is the Founder & serves as Managing Director at Medstars (Consulting Services). She is an Angel Investor. She serves as Founder & Managing Director at Medstars (PIG). She is the Founder & serves as Managing Director & HTC Selection Committee Member at HealthTech Capital. She serves as an Advisor at Respiratory Motion, Social Starts and is an Angel Investor. She 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. Since she founded MedStars, in 1986, she has been a business consultant to large healthcare companies and a mentor capitalist specializing in early-stage healthcare companies. 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/or 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 Philips), Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI). She also helped grow new entrepreneurial divisions of large corporations like ASP/Johnson & Johnson, Baxter, Medtronic and McKesson. She was also part of the founding executive team of Nellcor (a division of Covidien), MedPool and OmniCell (Nasdaq: OMCL). She was an Entrepreneur-In-Residence with Canaan Partners and IVP. In 2010, she founded HealthTech Capital, a group of private and corporate 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, payers and healthcare industry key players with the three sets of expertise needed to succeed in this new HealthTech space: healthcare, technology and user engagement. She organized the HealthTech Conferences between 2012-2015 and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and a guest-lecturer at Stanford Business School. MBA from Harvard and a Master in Business Engineering from University of Brussels. She is also a recognized artist.