Rachel Brannan

The Harvard Business School Alumni Angels Association (HBSAA) is an educational and networking forum for Harvard Alumni and other participants who are interested in researching and investing in early stage companies on an individual basis.

Seeding womens health and life science ventures We founded Avestria Ventures with the belief that opportunities to invest in female entrepreneurs in womens health and the life sciences are being overlooked. With women making 80% of household healthcare decisions and comprising 80% of the healthcare workforce, we believe female entrepreneurs may possess the insight needed to identify and successfully solve the industry’s unmet needs. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Beverly Hills, we seek out early stage businesses with a product or service that utilizes technology and/or data to improve the quality of healthcare, improve access, lower costs or empower patients. In order to achieve commercial success, these businesses must be evidence-based, induce clinical or behavioral change, possess scalable commercialization plans which account for healthcare policy, reimbursement and the existing infrastructure and possess a sustainable competitive advantage.

The Harvard Business School Alumni Angels Association (HBSAA) is an educational and networking forum for Harvard Alumni and other participants who are interested in researching and investing in early stage companies on an individual basis.

Westbrook Partners, founded in April 1994, is a privately-owned, fully integrated real estate investment management company with offices in New York, Boston, Washington, DC, Palm Beach, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Paris and Tokyo. Westbrooks professionals are responsible for acquisition, value enhancement, financial accounting and risk management. Westbrooks experience includes the operation and management of office, multi-family residential, hotel, retail, industrial and single-family residential development properties. Westbrooks professionals have been among the worlds most active and successful investors, having raised and invested approximately $10 billion of equity in $40 billion of real estate transactions in major markets throughout the world. Westbrooks investment equity is committed by a broad, stable base of the highest-quality institutional investors, which includes public and private pension funds, endowments, foundations, and financial institutions. Westbrook has full discretion over all investment decisions.

We aspire to be the world’s most exceptional financial institution, united by our shared values of partnership, client service, integrity, and excellence. Operating at the center of capital markets, we act as one firm, mobilizing our people, capital, and ideas to deliver superior results across our clients’ most complex challenges. For 157 years, Goldman Sachs has delivered world-class execution on a global scale across our leading Global Banking & Markets and Asset & Wealth Management businesses. Apprenticeship is central to our culture, with hands-on coaching and access to leaders who bring decades of experience and expertise. With office locations around the world, we offer a broad range of career opportunities to those who insist on excellence and thrive on performance. Find our Social Media Disclosures here: gs.com/social-media-disclosures