2024 SHIP Keynote Speaker, Judges & Moderator | Finals

Rona is currently a Corporate Development Operating Partner at SCAN Health Plan focused on growth & scale efforts across the diversified assets portfolio to drive innovation & impact to the core enterprise strategy. She was previously a Managing Director at Redesign Health where she led the New Ventures teams through the ideation, diligence, and launch processes for portfolio concepts. Over her tenure, she has deployed $56M dedicated to the founding & funding of 14 companies and has served on the boards of Iron Health, Pip Care, and Thrivory.

Before Redesign, Rona spent several years as a Venture Architect at BCG Digital Ventures partnering with companies to rapidly invent, launch, scale, and invest in revolutionary new businesses in the healthcare, energy, and hospitality industries. Prior, she worked at JPMorgan in their investment banking division across Healthcare Coverage and Natural Resources Equity Capital Markets. Rona started her career at Citi and holds a BBA in Finance & Economics from Villanova University.

**Rona Li**
Corporate Development Operating Partner, SCAN
Keynote Speaker & Judge

Meredith Fisher is a Partner with the Mass General Brigham Ventures focusing on early-stage investments and company creation. Previously, she was in the private/family office at Bracebridge Capital serving as Director of Private Investments where she led investments in early-stage life science companies. Prior to Bracebridge, she held a variety of roles in business development, investing, and in technical drug discovery.

Meredith received her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College, her MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and her PhD from Harvard University. Meredith represents the fund on the boards of FireCyte, Nocion, ClarisBio and ZielBio, she is a co-founder and board member of Violet, Brave Bio and Mediar as well as serving as an Observer for Scorpion and Amolyt.

**Meredith Fisher**
Partner at Mass Gen Brigham Innovation Fund
Judge

Michal ('Me-how') is a serial entrepreneur who is passionate about the translation of novel technologies into impactful products. His experience spans from early development to commercialization in diagnostics, digital health and AI. He holds an MS from MIT in computer science and a BS from McGill University in electrical engineering.

**Michal Depa**
Co-Founder and CTO, StataDX & Jana Care
Judge

Dr. Rene Mora has served as Portfolio Manager at Monashee Investment Management since 2020, where he oversees healthcare investments in public and private companies. Prior to Monashee he was Chief Scientific Officer for Leerink Partners from 2000-2020. At Leerink he worked with the Corporate Finance group performing due diligence related to financing transactions and mergers & acquisitions, and structured proprietary research projects for corporate banking clients. Dr. Mora is a graduate of Brown University and received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and an M.D. from the University of Chicago. He subsequently trained and received Board Certification in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine. Prior to joining Leerink, Dr. Mora served as Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Associate Physician and member of the Partners Asthma Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Mora has published over 30 manuscripts in medical journals and textbooks.

**Rene Mora**
Portfolio Manager, Monashee Investment Management
Judge

Sooah is a Partner focused on early stage investments in health & life sciences tech at SignalFire. SignalFire is an AI-native venture capital fund that has been building an in-house AI platform for the past decade with $2B+ AUM. Prior to SignalFire, she was a product leader at CVS Health, where she launched nationwide prescription delivery and virtual care products, and Devoted Health, currently valued at over $12 billion. At Underscore VC, she invested in fast growing B2B software startups, including life sciences tech products used by leading biopharma companies across the drug development cycle from R&D to commercial stages. She began her career at Michael Porter’s strategy firm where she advised healthcare & biopharma executives. Sooah has a joint-degree MBA | MPP from Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School, where she worked with startup founders at the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and built her health & life sciences tech investment thesis as a Rock Venture Partner with Bain Capital. As a product builder, GTM strategist, and policy nerd turned investor, she partners with founders at the earliest stages of their discovery, building, and scaling journeys. She’s excited to reimagine how we develop, deliver, & pay for healthcare today and usher in a new era of AI-enabled health and longevity for all.

**Vic Lanio**
Partner, Flare Capital Partners
Judge

Vic is a Partner at Flare Capital Partners. Vic led the firm’s investments in Elektra Health, Greater Good Health and Ounce of Care. In addition, in the past he held Board observer roles with Aspen RxHealth, Axuall, Circulation (acquired by LogistiCare), Cohere Health, Oui Therapeutics, Tausight, Visana Health, Visitpay (acquired by R1), and Vita Health. He also has led the firm’s Flare Scholars Ventures investments Marigold Health, and Piction Health and Ounce of Care.

Prior to joining Flare Capital, Vic held corporate development roles at Curaspan, which was acquired by naviHealth in 2016. After the acquisition, he transitioned to oversee product strategy in the parent company. Vic started his career in healthcare as a hospital system consultant at PwC and McKinsey & Company. He focused primarily on health system strategy within the context of the Affordable Care Act, the transition to value-based care, revenue cycle and clinical operations work. As McKinsey he worked on the Objective Health team, a tech-enabled consulting model for small to mid-sized health systems. He also helped launch and served as the President and Executive Board Chair of Boston Young Healthcare Professionals, a 501(c)(3) organization aimed at providing educational, networking and community service opportunities for young healthcare professionals in Boston. Vic obtained his undergraduate degree from Boston College, with majors in Physics and Management with a Concentration in Finance. He also obtained his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-directed the inaugural Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize in 2016.

Macauley Kenney is an Entrepreneur in Residence and a lecturer at MIT Sloan and MIT D-Lab.

Macauley is an executive leader at SurgiBox, a medical device venture creating novel surgical technologies. At SurgiBox, she oversaw the launch of the first ultraportable operating room, taking the product through the design for manufacturing process and into use on the battlefield in Ukraine. This device was named by Time as one of the 2023 Inventions of the Year.

She is passionate about human-centered design and increasing the success of impact-based ventures, particularly in hardware. Macauley teaches manufacturing technologies, with a focus on adaptation within low-resource settings, at MIT’s D-Lab. She is also the author of two patents on OR technology.

Prior to this she was an early joiner at a rapidly expanding consulting startup in Bogota, growing the company 4x in two years and overseeing the expansion into three new country offices: Kenya, Peru, and Morocco. A serial entrepreneur, Macauley has specialized in scaling organizations in emerging markets, and has led operational systems for ventures in the U.S., Rwanda, and Uganda. Additionally, she has studied early founding team dynamics and their impact on growth strategies. Her research has been featured in multiples news outlets, including Forbes and Engineering for Change.

Macauley is an accomplished public speaker, winning the MIT Can Talk competition while at university, and the North American Present Around the World Competition. She frequently serves as a competition judge, and coaches public speaking with an emphasis on stage presence and narrative building.

Macauley holds an MS in Technology and Policy from MIT, a Sustainability Certificate from MIT Sloan, and a BS in Biomedical Engineering from WPI. Outside of her work as an EIR she serves on the Council of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, an international professional engineering society.

**Macauley Kenney**
MIT Sloan and MIT D-Lab
Moderator

2024 SHIP Judges | Semi-Finals