Rock Health Angels Fall 2014

Join us for a Rock Health Angels workshop:

Founder’s Perspective on Angel Investors

We will be hosting a panel with three founders who have successfully raised from angel investors. Jen Chung (Co-founder and CEO of Kinsights), Nick Crocker (Co-founder and CEO of Sessions; recently acquired by MyFitnessPal), and Brian Poger (Co-founder and CEO of Benefitter) will share their experiences and thoughts on what makes a great angel investor. Alfonso Castillo, an experienced digital health investor with USVP will moderate the panel.

To open the session, Rock Health’s Venture Associate, Mitchell Mom, will have a brief presentation on Rock Health’s company selection process to provide insight on what Rock Health looks for when making investments.

A light dinner will be served at 6:00PM.

Alfonso Castillo joined USVP in 2012 and focuses on early stage investments in healthcare IT and enterprise software. Since he joined the firm he has been involved in multiple investments including Omada Health, InsideSales.com, Inadco, Livefyre, Skytree and Quantifind. Prior to joining USVP, Alfonso was a consultant at McKinsey & Company in Mexico City where he focused on the media, consumer and energy industries across Latin America. Alfonso also worked in corporate development at MercadoLibre in Buenos Aires and in middle-market private equity at Highcrest Management Group, where he specialized in healthcare IT investments. Alfonso holds an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Economics from the Universidad de las Americas Puebla, where he graduated with honors.

Jennifer Chung, co-founder and CEO, was an avid Kinsights user before joining the company. Prior to joining Kinsights, she was the Chairman of the Board at the San Francisco SPCA and led strategic planning and physician marketing at Genentech for a multi-billion dollar oncology product. Before that, she managed business development efforts at CNET. Jennifer received a BA from Stanford University and her MBA from Harvard University.

Nick Crocker, founder of Sessions, has many years of experience as a digital entrepreneur. Sessions was recently acquired by MyFitnessPal and Nick currently serves as Product Lead at MyFitnessPal. Prior to Sessions, Nick worked at Boxee in New York City as the product manager. Nick co-founded Native Digital, a digital agency focussing on building digital products and strategies for companies like EMI, Virgin Australia and Droga5, which he sold in 2011. Prior to Native Digital, Nick co-founded WeAreHunted.com, a Top 20 Music Site, charting the 99 best songs online every day, which he sold in 2009. Nick holds degrees in Law and Political Science from the University of Queensland in Australia.

Brian Poger is the Co-founder and CEO of Benefitter. Prior to Benefitter, Brian founded and scaled Senior Educators, a private healthcare exchange that helps retirees select and enroll in appropriate Medicare health and drug insurance. In March 2010, Brian’s company was purchased by Hewitt, where he continued to lead the business and attract marquee clients such as Chrysler, 3M, and UPS, and consult on additional health-exchange initiatives through 2011. Brian received an MBA with distinction from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University, and a BS in Engineering magna cum laude from Washington University.

For legal reasons, this event is only open to accredited investors. According to the SEC, an accredited investor is a natural person who has individual net worth, or joint net worth with the person’s spouse, that exceeds $1 million at the time of the purchase, excluding the value of the primary residence of such person; or a natural person with income exceeding $200,000 in each of the two most recent years or joint income with a spouse exceeding $300,000 for those years and a reasonable expectation of the same income level in the current year.