Lissette Steele, Angel Investor

Lissette is a founder, marketer, and public relations executive with 25 years of experience supporting innovative life science companies at all stages of development and commercialization. In 2016, she founded Verge Scientific Communications, an award-winning brand strategy and communications firm dedicated to shaping the stories and brands of emerging and pioneering health and science companies. Over the course of her career, she has advised companies of all sizes and stages -- ranging from startups and early-stage biotechnology, diagnostics, and health technology companies, to Fortune 500 medical device and pharmaceutical organizations, on corporate, scientific, and product positioning and communications. Lissette currently acts as an investor and advisor for startup companies and serves in an advisory role to Deerfield Group. She has a particular affinity for working with companies pioneering innovative approaches to treat disease -- cell and gene therapy, targeted protein degradation, genetic and epigenetic editing, RNA therapeutics and more, working across a broad range of therapeutic areas. She has a passion for supporting and investing in women's health companies, spanning therapeutics, diagnostics, devices, and digital technologies.