Mara Aspinall

Advisor at BlueStone Venture Partners

Tucson, Arizona

Overview

Mara Aspinall is a Partner at Illumina Ventures in Tucson, Arizona, with a focus on investments in various sectors including diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices. With an MBA from Harvard Business School and experience as a Managing Director at BlueStone Venture Partners, she has successfully invested in companies like Predicta Biosciences and Paradigm Diagnostics, showcasing her expertise in capital investments and business strategy.

Work Experience

Illumina Ventures

Partner
2023 - Current

Illumina Ventures visions is to improve human health by unlocking the power of the genome.

illuminaventures.com

BlueStone Venture Partners

Advisor
2023
Managing Director
2017 - 2023

BlueStone Venture Partners is a life science venture capital fund investing in entrepreneurial companies.

bluestonevp.com

ASU College of Health Solutions

Professor of Practice, Diagnostics, College of Health Solutions
2018

OraSure Technologies

Director
2017

OraSure Technologies develops, manufactures, and distributes oral fluid diagnostic and collection devices.

Raised $136,000,000.00 from Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and U.S. Department of Defense.

orasure.com