Missy Krasner

Investor

Missy Krasner, Managing Director, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Box

 Missy is Director for Healthcare and Life Sciences at Box where she leads the healthcare vertical.  Prior to Box, she was an Executive -in-Residence (EIR) at Morgenthaler Ventures and specialized in health IT investments. Missy is also a special advisor at Canvas Venture Fund, a Morgenthaler Technology company and is a board observer for a few health IT portfolio companies.  Prior to her role in venture, Missy worked at Google for 5 years in healthcare. She was one of the founding members of Google Health, an online medical records and wellness platform.  Prior to her role at Google, Missy worked for the Bush Administration in the Secretary’s Office at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).   She was Senior Advisor to Dr. David Brailer, M.D., Ph.D., the first National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).  Before joining HHS, she worked as a Product Marketing Director for CareScience, a healthcare information technology company that developed the first Health Information Exchange (HIE).  Prior to her role at CareScience, Missy led communications and research at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-partisan, national, healthcare policy think tank. She also worked at Aetna where she spearheaded provider networking and communications during two corporate mergers to help the company enter into the managed care space. Missy is a mentor at StartXMed and advises several digital health companies. She has published a series of articles and blogs on digital health. Missy has a M.A. from Stanford University in healthcare policy and business administration, and a B.A. in English Literature and Theater from UCLA.