Annie Lamont co-founded Oak HC/FT in 2014. Prior to founding Oak HC/FT, Annie spent 28 years at Oak Investment Partners, where she served as a Managing Partner and led the healthcare and fintech practices. Over the course of her career, she has invested in category-defining companies across the healthcare and financial services industries, including Aspire Health, athenahealth, CareBridge, Devoted Health, iHealthTechnologies (which became Cotiviti), NetSpend, OneMedical, and VillageMD.  Annie has been featured on the Forbes Midas List, Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare list, Institutional Investor’s FinTech Finance 40 list, and the Top 100 Venture Capitalist rankings published by CB Insights. She also served as a core participant of the Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary’s Innovation and Investment Summit (DSIIS).  In addition to her portfolio company board seats, Annie serves on the Board of Directors for Bloomberg Inc. and has served on the Board of Trustees for Stanford University, from which she holds a B.A. degree. 

Jarred Bressner, MD, Principal, Activate Venture Partners. Jarred began his career as an orthopaedic surgeon.  He invented a novel joint replacement system and has been named lead inventor on multiple approved and pending patents regarding orthopaedic surgery implants and surgical instruments. He has also co-developed surgical devices with established industry companies and received grant funding from such sources as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) as a clinician scientist. Jarred has authored over two dozen peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, book chapters, and abstracts. Jarred completed his engineering undergraduate education at the Johns Hopkins University, graduating first in class from his engineering department. He earned his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed his residency training in Orthopaedic Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. In addition to maintaining a clinical position in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Hopkins, he was involved in parallel with the Clinical Innovation Program and held a dual appointment in the School of Engineering. Jarred is licensed to practice medicine in the State of Connecticut.

Amitabh Chandra is the Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy and Director of Health Policy Research at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where he is the Faculty Chair of the joint MS/MBA program in the life-sciences, the Faculty Chair of the executive education program in the life-sciences, the chair of the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab committee, and a board member for the Blavatnik Fellows program. Professor Chandra’s research focuses on innovation, pricing, and capital allocation in the biopharmaceutical industry, value in health care, medical malpractice, racial disparities in healthcare, and discovering new methods for treating Alzheimer’s.  Professor Chandra is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Social Insurance, the first-prize recipient of the Upjohn Institute’s Dissertation Award, the NIHCM Foundation Health Care Research Award, the Kenneth Arrow Award for best paper in health economics, the Eugene Garfield Award for the impact of medical research, and the American Society of Health Economists (ASHE) medal. which is given to an economist age 40 or under who has made the most significant contributions to the field of health economics.