Kate Wolin

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Biography

Dr. Kate Wolin serves as Senior Advisor at PACE Healthcare Capital. Dr. Wolin has 20+ years of experience as a digital health executive, entrepreneur, researcher, and faculty. Named by Forbes as a Healthcare Innovator You Should Know, she was most recently Head of Product for the direct-to-consumer business of Optum, where she also mentored digital health start-ups at the UnitedHealthcare Accelerator. She has built the successful digital weight-loss startup ScaleDown (sold to Anthem in 2017) and then ventured to corporate as CSO of Interactive Health (owned by private equity). She is a member of the entrepreneurship faculty at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management where she co-leads the venture track of the Zell Entrepreneurial Fellowship and coaches entrepreneurs from a variety of fields and levels of experiences to build and scale their companies. She holds a BA in anthropology from Tufts University, Postdoctoral Fellow from Northwestern University, and a Doctoral Degree in Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health.