Ashley Hancock

With nearly 2,250 accredited angel investor members dispersed throughout 53 chapters on three continents, Keiretsu Forum is the world’s largest and most successful accredited investor – private equity community. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested more than $850 million in 700+ different companies from a myriad of industries, including software, telecommunications, health/life sciences, biotech, real estate, mobile applications, Internet, consumer products and other high growth areas. “Keiretsu” is the Japanese word for a family of affiliated companies that form a tight-knit alliance and work toward each other’s mutual success. Consistent with this definition, Keiretsu Forum is a conglomeration of serious investors, business leaders, venture capitalists, corporate/institutional investors and serial entrepreneurs bound by two overlapping and codependent goals: • To work together for each other’s mutual benefit, forming strategic partnerships, enhancing each other’s knowledge and building an angel network of diverse skills • To access promising angel investment opportunities around the world Keiretsu Forum South-East encompasses the following chapters: Miami and Atlanta.

Southeast Life Sciences is a regional non-profit trade association formed by the merger of SEMDA and Southeast BIO that supports and promotes biopharma, medical device, digital health, and diagnostic companies in the Southeast.

With nearly 2,250 accredited angel investor members dispersed throughout 53 chapters on three continents, Keiretsu Forum is the world’s largest and most successful accredited investor – private equity community. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested more than $850 million in 700+ different companies from a myriad of industries, including software, telecommunications, health/life sciences, biotech, real estate, mobile applications, Internet, consumer products and other high growth areas. “Keiretsu” is the Japanese word for a family of affiliated companies that form a tight-knit alliance and work toward each other’s mutual success. Consistent with this definition, Keiretsu Forum is a conglomeration of serious investors, business leaders, venture capitalists, corporate/institutional investors and serial entrepreneurs bound by two overlapping and codependent goals: • To work together for each other’s mutual benefit, forming strategic partnerships, enhancing each other’s knowledge and building an angel network of diverse skills • To access promising angel investment opportunities around the world Keiretsu Forum South-East encompasses the following chapters: Miami and Atlanta.

Southeast Life Sciences is a regional non-profit trade association formed by the merger of SEMDA and Southeast BIO that supports and promotes biopharma, medical device, digital health, and diagnostic companies in the Southeast.

Innovetica is a boutique technology incubation firm that partners with physician and research inventors in the development and commercialization of new and innovative medical technologies.