Christina Jenkins

General Partner / Co-Founder at Convergent Ventures

Speaker

I am a early-stage venture investor, board director, and a trusted advisor to healthcare leaders, offering a unique perspective spanning patients, providers, and US payers.

My expertise is grounded in finance training at GE, clinical medicine, health systems executive leadership, and health plan governance.

I'm a cofounder and General Partner at Convergent Ventures, a Seed/A firm investing in health and sustainability. I lead our health/life sciences strategy and look primarily for relentless teams building science-driven platform companies that help take the "art" out of medicine. They transform the way we diagnose, monitor, or treat, leading to better outcomes for all.

I am a board director of for-profit companies ranging from $0 to $26B in revenue, where I use my "sonar hearing" and ability to pose the right first questions in service to growth.

As a former CEO in the provider setting, I respect the challenges of executing within opaque, fast, or resource-constrained contexts -- I serve as a trusted advisor to C-suite leaders seeking to redesign for better clinical value or innovate their care models.

I'm invited often to share my views on AI in health, the health of women, the life sciences investing landscape, and more. Some places I've recently done so: NYSE, HLTH, SXSW, NY BIO, Google/Techstars, NAM / NY Fed, Forbes, BioFutures, and Commonwealth Fund.