Laura Hilty

Principal, HealthX Ventures

Laura Hilty has spent over 18 years working to improve the healthcare ecosystem, over 14 years of that in clinical research.  She has held leadership roles spanning corporate strategy, M&A, product strategy, product management, and partnerships across stages from company start-up to scale, through Forte / Advarra and Epic.

Through that time, she led and launched six technology products, drove M&A strategic evaluation and processes resulting in 6 acquisitions, and developed corporate strategy that drove the thesis for investment and acquisitions. She has been on the sell side of company exits twice, helping develop a strategic thesis for growth that the company has continued to follow.  With clinical research domain expertise combined with experience in Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs), she is passionate about creating new paradigms in healthcare that create impactful and sustainable change.

Laura has a Bachelor’s in Molecular / Cell Biology from Vanderbilt University, is a mentor to start-up entrepreneurs in Madison, active in helping improve healthcare in Africa, and spends her free time negotiating with her young daughter or outdoors hiking or kayaking.