LAUNCH Supporters

Suzan Deison

CEO/President/Founder

Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of Commerce

Katelyn Balch

Events and Marketing Coordinator

JLABS

Mary Bass

Partner

Spencer Stuart

Maigen Berg

Managing Director
Cannon Ventures

Sara Brand, PhD

Investor, Managing Director

True Health Ventures

Austin, Texas

Sara Brand, PhD

Founding General Partner
True Wealth Ventures

Patricia Gail Bray, PhD

Director
BridgeUp
The Menninger Clinic

Zawadi Bryant

Co-Founder and CEO
NightLight Pediatric Urgent Care

Katy Caldwell

Executive Director
Legacy Community Health

Denise Castillo-Rhodes

Executive VP & CFO
Texas Medical Center

Stephanie Cunningham

VP, Business Development
The Menninger Clinic

Kim Cotner David

Senior VP & CFO
Baylor College of Medicine

Myra Davis

Senior VP & CIO

Texas Children’s Hospital

Kim Denney

Managing Director, Texas
Newport LLC

Cathy Easter

President and CEO
Houston Methodist Global Health Care Services

Samina Farid

Managing Director
Farid Ventures

Cherrill Farnsworth

President & CEO
HealthHelp

Juliana Garaizar

Former Managing Director

Houston Angel Network

Houston, Texas

Leslie Goldman, JD

Co-Founder and Principal
The Artemis Fund

Ludmila Golovine

President and CEO
MasterWord Services

Susan Feigin Harris, JD

Partner
Morgan Lewis

Kari Hartmann

Audit Director
BKD

Debra Hatter

Member
Clark Hill PLC

Irene Helsinger, SHRN-SCP, SPHR

Managing Director and
Member of Board of
Managers
NewportLLC

Vivian Ho, PhD

James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics & Professor of Economics
Rice University

Rebecca Kaul

Chief Innovation Officer
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Rebecca Kaul

Chief Innovation Officer
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Dr. Kelly Larkin

CEO/Emergency Medical Physician
The Larkin Group,Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center

Laurie Levermann

VP, Information Systems
Community Health Choice

Valerae Lewis, MD

Professor, Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Oncology
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Karen H. Lu, M.D.

Professor and Chair in the Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Gina Luna

CEO
Luna Strategies, LLC

Ashley McClellan

CEO
The Woman’s Hospital of Texas

Ayse McCracken

President
eNNOVATE Health Ventures LLC

Stephanie Madrid

Division Vice President
Kindred Healthcare

Deborah Mansfield, MS, MBA

Janette Marx

CEO
Airswift

Sonia Mathur

Vice-President
Houston Angel Network

Kelli Newman

President
Newman & Newman, Inc.

Kathryn E. Peek, PhD

Former Healthcare Professional

KEP Consulting

Houston, Texas

Chantell Preston

Chief Development Officer
Atlantic Health Group

Juliana Garaizar

Director
TMC Venture Fund

Kathryn E. Peek, PhD

Managing Director, President/CEO
Golden Seeds,KEP Consulting, LLC

Lorraine R. Reitzel, PhD, FAAHB

Department of Psychological, Health & Learning Sciences
University of Houston

Michelle Riley-Brown

President
Texas Children’s Hospital
The Woodlands

Gabriella Rowe

Executive Director
The ION

Kerry Rupp

Managing Director
True Wealth Ventures

Roberta Schwartz, PhD

Executive Vice President,
Chief Innovation Officer
Houston Methodist Hospital

Rhonda Smith

Chief Financial Officer/ Deputy Director
Next Level Urgent Care

Cheryl Stavins

Senior Healthcare
Consultant
FKP | CannonDesign

Debbie Sukin

Regional SVP & CEO
Houston Methodist The Woodlands

Elizabeth Travis, Ph.D., FASTRO

Chair of the Board;
Associate Vice President,
Women Faculty Program
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Robbyn Traylor, MD

Chief Medical Director
Next Level Urgent Care

Barbara Vilutis

Executive VP & Executive
Director, Strategic Growth
Amegy Bank

Beth Young

Senior Vice President
Colliers International