About me
Donna has 35+ years of healthcare experience bridging both the provider and industry segments of HealthCare. She began as critical care nurse, migrating to operations and hospital administration, was a GM of a large Specialty physician group practice and then was recruited to industry, in clinical and business leadership positions. She spent 8+ years with Baxter Int. in senior (group) global executive positions in business development, sales and marketing of clinical products aimed at improving care and reducing health care costs. She has served in senior C level management roles for 10 diagnostic companies, focused on commercialization in her career and was in key leadership roles in two company exits.
She is a founder of Virginia Life Sciences Investments, Inc where they funded several international technology startups. She led the Series A investment in ImmunArray, the original home of the broad portfolio of biomarkers for Neurological Disease Diagnosis, and Monitoring (including TBI). It was spun out in late 2018 to BRAINBox Solutions, where she is a founder and CEO. She was a Governor appointed member of the Virginia Biotechnology Research Park Authority, serving for 9 years, from 1999-2008 and a member of the Board of the Intellectual Property Foundation of Virginia Commonwealth University, serving for 8 years. In July of 2023 she was again appointed by the Governor to the now renamed Virginia Biotechnology Research Partnership Authority, Activation Capital.
