Gail Christine Gannon

Gail Gannon is the Founder & CEO of Ensanté, Tech for Good Advisors for startups, Founding Director of the Neurotech Collider Lab, Bakar BioEnginuity Hub & Faculty, School of Engineering, University of California Berkeley, with 20+ years of experience helping entrepreneurs turn their great idea into market success, facilitating 4 exits.

Gail has over 10 years of conducting bootcamps for international startups. She guides them through identifying target markets, finding grants and persuading investors, prototyping, refining their product or service, defining the business model, securing their first customers, and growing into new markets or partnerships. She has been instrumental in helping companies to scale and to successful acquisition. Gail is an Angel Investor, HealthTech investment banker, and is known among investment communities in Silicon Valley. She is a subject matter expert, and formerly a Program Officer for PATH-Gates Foundation, $65M under management. She routinely speaks at international congresses and investor forums, BIO International, Health 2.0/HIMSS. Gail earned her master’s degree from the TH Chan Harvard School of Public Health University, Patricia Roberts Harris Fellow DHHS, with a Biotech Honors Certificate from UC Santa Cruz, and an AB from UC Berkeley, honors thesis in Medicalization of Aging. Gail is also on faculty in the School of Engineering. She has advised entrepreneurs through Stanford University and UC San Francisco’s Lean Launchpad, and most recently, on behalf of other government (USAID, UN, & the World Bank).

Gail routinely presents & often judges startups at major international congresses, and at investor forums (Health 2.0/HIMSS, BIO International, SXSW, and Family Offices). She is known among Corporate Venture Capitalists and Silicon Valley angel investors seeking Gail’s advice on whether and when to invest in promising startups. Gail, along with her partner, Bharat Joshi, co-founded Ensanté.