Proud Chicago native, Anna Lisa Somera, brings over 16 years’ experience working with start-ups in different capacities including biomedical research, venture capital, technology transfer, operations, regulatory affairs, quality management systems, clinical research, grant consulting, and management. Her interest in leading start-ups has stems from OrthoAccel Technologies, a medical device company she co-founded in grad school whose products are sold worldwide today. From there, she worked in early stage venture capital and served as senior management in several early stage medical device companies wear...read more