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Ben Kromnick

Startup Mentor at Techstars

San Francisco, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences

    2023 - Current

    Building the most rich and diverse ecosystem and financial platform focused on healthcare and life sciences to increase the pace of innovation, improve the efficacy of care, and increase the efficiency of the US healthcare market. Tell me about your biggest challenge in healthcare and let’s get to work!

  • Startup Mentor

    2024

    Supporting the techstars innovation community providing support and resources to accelerate product development and fundraising for healthcare companies

  • Startup Mentor

    2024

    Supporting the innovation community with resources and expertise to accelerate product development and fundraising for healthcare companies

  • Investor Mentor

    2022

  • Startup Mentor

    2022

  • Venture Partner

    2022

    Supporting innovative Startups and Founders in the early growth stage as an industry leader for Healthtech and Fintech by leading the diligence, partnerships and Venture Scout program to access and grow entrepreneurial communities around the country.

  • Head of Partnerships

    2022 - 2023

    Scaling the community of VCs, Accelerators, Advisors, and Service Providers that support companies raising capital to create a more equitable and efficient entrepreneurial and innovation system globally.

  • VP of Product Marketing & Startup Community

    2021 - 2022

    We simplify early stage startup funding and investing. My role in this mission is to support Founders to use the new tools made available by Equity CrowdFunding to create a more equitable and efficient startup funding experience so that every great team and idea can find its tribe and grow with them! We achieve this by developing strategic community partnerships to educate Founder communities and provide highly qualified issuer relationships, internal qualification, and support teams and processes. I also lead our Product Marketing function developing GTM strategies and managing their implementation across strategic partnerships, paid, and unpaid channels.

  • Product Lead: Strategy and Operations

    2019 - 2021

    I develop strategy and operations systems to enable Verana's continued rapid pace of scale. I partner with organization leaders to develop the tools and processes that support Verana defining and managing its overarching goals and strategies. I also perform business, strategy, and market analysis in order to help refine components of the organization wide strategy for executive stakeholders. Additionally, I lead and partner with the program management functions across multiple organizations to approach the "little things" with as much energy as we do the big strategies. I do this by selecting the right tools (Atlassian Suite, Asana, Salesforce.com, tableau, and others), managing their implementations, and managing the business process changes to take advantage of them. Most notably, I lead the agile transformation of 2 product & engineering organizations and the implementation of SFDC as the business process platform for the organization. Both of which will support the scale of the organization for years to come.

  • Head Of Products

    2018 - 2019

    Led the product management function at Deep6 scaling the product from only a small handful of customers and users to many more of both while managing the product design and development lifecycle with partners in design and engineering. These efforts expanded the depth and breadth of the product offering to become a more comprehensive provider of Clinical Trial/ Research Acceleration software growing our market size and impact for existing customers.

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