Nancy Brown, a General Partner at Oak HC/FT, joined the firm in 2014 and focuses on growth equity and early-stage venture opportunities in healthcare.
Nancy currently serves on the Boards of Firefly Health, Groups Recover Together, Maven, Oshi Health, Regard and Unite US. Nancy is also actively involved with Noom, TurningPoint Healthcare Solutions and Wayspring. Her prior investments include Interwell Health (merged with Fresenius Medical Care), Limeade (ASX: LME), OncoHealth (acquired by Arsenal Capital Partners), and OODA Health (acquired by Cedar).
Prior to joining Oak HC/FT, Nancy was Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for McKesson Corporation Technology Solutions. Previously, Nancy was Chief Growth Officer at MedVentive, which was acquired by McKesson in 2012. Before joining MedVentive, she served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development as well as Senior Vice President of Clinical Service of athenahealth. Prior to joining athenahealth in 2004, she was a Senior Vice President at McKesson Corporation, focused on marketing and strategic planning. She joined McKesson in 1999 when it acquired a company she co-founded, Abaton.com, a provider of internet-based clinical solutions for the ambulatory market. Earlier, she spent eight years at Harvard Community Health Plan where she held several senior management roles.
Nancy is also a member of the Dean’s Executive Council at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University and the Future of Healthcare Founder Residency program at the Roux Institute in Portland, Maine.
Nancy received a Bachelor of Science (Zoology) degree at the University of New Hampshire and an MBA from Northeastern University.
- Firefly Health
- Groups
- Maven
- Noom
- Oshi Health
- Regard
- Unite Us
- Wayspring
- Interwell Health
- Limeade
- OncoHealth
- OODA Health
Over the past three decades, I've done a full tour of duty in healthcare. I’ve run a payer-provider. I’ve led three startups, two of which sold to McKesson and one of which went public. I’ve run growth for a Fortune-4 healthcare company. And I've invested in some of the most impactful companies out there.
Because I’ve spent most of my career as an operator, I can’t help but dig in with my founders. We go deep on anything they need: Go-to-market, product-market fit, customer access, interventions when contract negotiations are going south, executive recruiting, and rebuilding teams that need a fresh start.
I don’t believe in superficial relationships, because you can’t do this kind of work without trust and honesty. I’m a truth-teller. I respect the boundary between what’s helpful and what’s not, based on my own startup experiences and all the companies I’ve worked with since. I help CEOs understand that their journeys will be rocky, but that is normal and it’s all part of the process. The best entrepreneurs know that getting money is not hard. An investor who can give you both capital and support through the journey at all levels (operational, financial, technical, strategic, emotional) is much harder to find.
