Sally Hatcher
Managing Partner at Buff Gold Ventures
Boulder, Colorado
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2022 - Current
Early-stage investor in companies in the University of Colorado ecosytem (faculty, student, and alumni founders)
Buff Gold Ventures is a venture fund.
Board Member
2021
Caliber MRI uses NIST-enabled technology to bring quantitative MRIs to medicine.
CaliberMRI is a development of MRI imaging phantoms, diffusion phantoms, and MRI QA/QC software.
National Instructor
2016
Teaching and mentoring at a variety of I-Corps and similar accelerators (DOE Energy I-Corps, NIH, University of Colorado, CSU, Trout tank H2O). Skill sets include entrepreneurship, commercialization, product-market fit, ecosystem analysis, public speaking, and customer discovery, and translating disruptive technical innovation into commercial products.
National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency that supports research and education in the fields of science and engineering.
Senior Director of Venture Development
2018 - 2022
Building deep tech accelerator, programmatic education, and broad resources for entrepreneurship, commercialization, startups and licensing for faculty and staff interested in spinning out technology or expanding their impact. More broadly, teaching and mentoring the entrepreneurial mindset and tool-kits for solving broad problems, funding big ideas, and creating social impact. With Venture Partners, built the startup pipeline for CU's scientific and technical innovations.
Co-Founder and President of MBio Diagnostics; and Board Advisor of LightDeck Diagnostics
2009 - 2021
Advise and work with Board of Directors and CEO on all aspects of the business including growth/revenue and exit strategy, funding, finance and legal/intellectual property.
Principal Consultant
2016 - 2020
Consulting on startup funding, team-building, FDA and CE regulatory compliance, diversity, and growth.
Member Board Of Directors, including Chair
2014 - 2020
Collaboration Decision Making, Public Engagement, and Facilitation. Team works internationally to build consensus among many groups on environmental, land use, and resource challenges.
CDR Associates is a unique organization that specializes in collaborative decision making and consensus building.
President/COO
2015 - 2016
Kindara is a mobile health company focused on improving women's health outcomes. First app and products focus on reproductive health, providing data and expertise to women seeking reproductive information to manage fertility and have better conversations with their physicians.
CoFounder and President
2000 - 2012
Assistant Attorney General- Office of the Atty General
1998 - 2000
Clerk, Div 1 Water Court
1997 - 1998
The Colorado Medical Board (CMB) was instituted as part of the Medical Practice Act for the purpose of regulating and controlling.