Paige Davis and Frank Paganelli will participate in the Cascadia Venture Forum Summit, the premier early-stage (Seed and Series A) investment forum for health innovation startups in the Pacific Northwest, on Wednesday, November 15.
Paganelli will moderate a panel on “The Advantages of Gender Diversity in Health Innovation and Investing” from 1:30-1:55 p.m. Panelists include: Natalie Dakers, President & CEO of Accel-Rx Health Sciences Accelerator; Loretta Little, Managing Director of WRF Capital; Lynn Stevenson, Managing Partner of Alta Biomedical Group; and Anisha Sood, Partner at Echo Health Ventures.
Davis will serve on a panel from 3:20-3:40 p.m. discussing “Bridging the Funding Gap: Building Within Cascadia and Beyond (U.S., Canada and Asia)” with moderator Lewis Coughlin, Consul & Trade Commissioner for the Consulate General of Canada. Other panelists include Faz Bashi, Chair of the Digital Health & Sciences Screening Committee at Life Science Angels; Jian Wu, Managing Partner at W&W Capital; and Andrew Wright, Managing Director of Wright Ventures.
The event will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Cambia Grove in Seattle.