Jessica A. Zeaske

Managing Partner, Strategic Investment
Jessica Zeaske, Echo Health Ventures
As a Managing Partner at Echo Health Ventures, Jessica A. Zeaske, PhD, MBA, identifies and invests in emerging and growth stage companies for Echo in the tech-enabled services, insurtech, and digital health sectors. She is a seasoned venture capitalist and board leader having worked at independent, corporate, and university funds and written dozens of investment themes over the years.

She previously served as Director of Healthcare Investments at GE Ventures and a Principal at Lemhi Ventures, a fund investing in health care services with a focus on market disruption. Prior to joining Lemhi, Jessica worked on forming, spinning out, and investing in health companies at Greenspring Advisors and University of Minnesota.

Jessica currently serves on the Boards of Avalon Healthcare Solutions, Genome Medical, Heartbeat Health, Ideon, and as a Board Observer at Abacus Insights and Eleanor Health. She has a breadth of company formation to growth stage experience across health tech-enabled services companies such as Bind On-Demand Health Insurance (acquired by UHC, rebranded as Surest), Medication Management Systems (acquired by Genoa), Arcadia.io, PlanSource, and Wildflower Health. Over the years, Jessica has Chaired multiple Audit and Compensation Committees as well as serve on Nomination and Financing Committees. Outside of Echo, Jessica serves on the Board of CareQuest Institute for Oral Health, a non-profit seeking to improve oral health for all, and has served as a Trustee for Boston Medical Center’s Exceptional Care Without Exception Trust, and an Advisory Board member for Boston Children’s Hospital. She is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors.

Jessica received an undergraduate degree with honors from Stanford University, graduated from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health with a Master of Health Science and PhD, and completed her MBA with a focus on Healthcare Administration at Regis University.

Jessica lives in Boston and enjoys having a kindle full of good books and a passport full of stamps.

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COVID-19 Exposes Our Deepest Vulnerabilities – And That’s a Good Thing

As COVID-19 rips through communities, the pandemic has stress tested the world’s ability to adapt to an unsettling reality. While businesses work to recover a semblance of normalcy by shifting operations to the cloud and preserving routine, new technical and behavioral challenges reveal inadequacies throughout the healthcare industry. In the race to demonstrate stability and…

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