Lisa Carmel serves as Executive Vice President Strategic Partnerships at Veranex, one of the largest medtech-only innovation solutions firms. In her role, Lisa leverages her global product commercialization experience to help forge long-term collaborations with a core focus on Veranex’s strategic partners and their portfolio management.

Lisa has 25+ years of healthcare product commercialization with companies in the U.S., Europe, and China, with a special emphasis on medtech innovation. As an active member of the medtech and investor communities, Lisa is an advisor to many startups and accelerators including CLSI’s FAST program and MedTech Innovator. She also serves as an advisor to the Cleveland Clinic MedTech Advisory Board, the Mayo Clinic’s Executive Steering Committee for the Surgical Innovation Summit, UCLA Biodesign and How Women Lead. Lisa serves on the Board of Directors for MarinHealth system, a partner of UCSF and is Co-Chair of MedtechWomen’s Annual MedTechVision Conference in 2021-23. Lisa has a keen interest in the latest medtech innovation trends and authors Veranex’s MedTech Pioneers blog, which spotlights medtech leadership and their groundbreaking work.
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