GE Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of conglomerate General Electric, has hired Lisa Suennen as managing director to focus on healthcare, effective December 1.
Suennen joins from Venture Valkyrie, an advisory firm for which she had acted as managing partner since 2014. She will wind down her consulting business as a result, Suennen announced in a blog post.
Suennen’s CV include stints at Cardeation Fund, a venture fund backed by the American Heart Association, where she has served as managing member since July 2015.
She is also a visiting lecturer at University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, a position she has held since 2008.
Suennen said: “I am very excited to be back on the front lines of venture capital investing in the areas I love: health IT, health services, medical devices (non-invasive in this case) and where they all connect in digital health.
“I am particularly delighted to join this respected platform and be part of such a great team of people, many of whom I have long known and much enjoyed.
“With corporate venture capital playing such a significant role in today’s healthcare innovation world and the wealth of assets to be brought to bear, I am particularly looking forward to the good things that can be done through GE Ventures.”