TEAM
Meet our team of operators, innovators, advisors and partners, representing more than forty leading entities.
SansKRITI THakur
Chairwoman
Sans is the Founder and of Tower Capital Group and its Affiliates. She has 25 years’ experience in the industry with a record of managing multi-billion dollar products, portfolios, P&Ls and asset types. Sans serves as a member of the World Economic Forum councils, and in particular as a lead of the Women's Health Investment Consortium, as announced in May 2024. She is also Chairwoman of the Tower Council Foundation, who's mission is to be a charitable organization educating on the critical field of Generational Health. Prior to founding Tower, Sans was the Chief Growth Officer of Medable, and during her tenure the organization grew more than 300% and achieved double unicorn status, as is publically measurable during her tenure as CGO.
Prior to Medable, Sans was the Global Head of Life Science Research at Accenture for seven years, leading therapeutic, patient, market, technology and innovations research across twenty-four markets. As published in her authorship of "New Science" she was the creator of the science and technology modeling of $1.3T worth of scientific assets intended for investment and opportunity identification across the life science and health industries. She she was a designated leader of the Life Science Covid response, and responsible for the team which reviewed more than 50K innovation assets for funding and regulatory acceleration, for the purposes of supporting patients, hospitals, industries, governments and regulators to access critical new technologies for development of vaccines, emergency patient management and other areas related to CV19 urgent response.
Prior to 2013 and her tenure at Accenture, she had operated life science business units, operational initiatives and investment strategies between $5-10B USD in size, as a Director at Boehringer Ingelheim she was responsible for strategy and operation of the US pharmaceutical business of ~$9B. As a confidential consultant across the tier of Pharma, biotech, and med device companies, she transacted across multiple M&A appointments, and private investments. Today, this set of experiences fuels Sans’s category leadership of Generational Health ethically, scientifically and for investment. Sans has undergraduate and graduate degrees in life and physical sciences and an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business. She lives in New York with her family of four.
VANI RAO
President
Vani is the President and Managing Partner of Tower Capital Group. She has nearly 20 years’ experience and her record includes leading high-stakes transactions and strategic projects across diverse financial products, institutions, and asset types. She held pivotal roles in investment and trading teams at financial institutions, in which she was responsible for P&L and risk mitigation. Prior to Tower Capital Group, Vani served as Principal Partner with Sybilla Mastersfund, playing a foundational role shaping the fund strategy launching in 2020, leading 3 of the inaugural fund's 10 investments taking the responsibility of Board positions for each.
Preceding this work, Vani built out the Product vertical at Lighter Capital as Vice President of Product after serving as Investment Director, deploying capital into 13 companies from 2018 - 2020. While in this position, Vani was a lead strategist who worked on key initiatives with Silicon Valley Bank, identifying risk exposures three years prior to their FDIC closure. Prior to Venture, Vani worked in Derivatives markets both at BBVA from 2014 - 2018 and KeyBank from 2007 - 2014, serving the risk management and hedging needs of clients across Agriculture, Oil & Gas, Public Sector, Technology, and Financial Institutions. Currently Vani is also an Adjunct Professor of Investment at the University of Washington and a CFA Charterholder. Vani is active in her community and lives with her family in Seattle, WA.
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WENDY bronFIN
Venture Advisor
Wendy is a growth-focused, entrepreneurial leader with deep expertise in product development, technology innovation, marketing, and business strategy. Generational Health Investors and Boards of Directors call upon her to launch, scale and innovate businesses for outsized generational returns.
TEJAS SHAH
VENTURE ADVISOR
Tejas is an investor, product leader and versatile thinkers with experience leading and scaling med-tech and prop-tech ventures. His perspective for Generational Health is shaped by his genetics background and passion for realizing biofriendly innovations for the home and retrofitting lifestyle and luxury for generational outcomes.
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TEAM
Experts across the Generational Health disciplines
Philip Benjamin
Community Health & Capital Markets
A Mental Health Clinician and Investment Specialist, Philip is interested in creating and investing in innovative, environmentally friendly, and socially responsible businesses.
Tom Cassels
Life Science & Digital Health
A veteran across Life Science, Health and Digital, a leading investment manager and recent CEO of RockHealth. Tom advises on optimal outcomes at the digital intersections of Generational Health.
Jennifer Kahoud, MD
Medicine & Health Systems
Medical Director of Jefferson University Hospitals, and thought-leader across critical intersections of Generational health, Dr. Kahoud is an orchestrator of public and private funding initiatives across states and countries, single handedly reshaping health systems.
Stephanie Lasker
Operating Excellence for Scaling Startups
With over two decades scaling startups to acquisition, Stephanie uses a combination of executive coaching and hands-on involvement to strategically build scalable teams and processes. Stephanie is an active mentor to early stage startups and a customer success expert.
Charlie Lieu
Big Data & Systems Biology
Unicorn builder and investor, Charlie has a long track record of translating ambitious ideas into reality. An investment leader trained in software engineering and data science, Charlie has a career leading generational projects including The International Space Station and Human Genome Project.
Justin Nahama
Military & Veteran Health
Leveraging 20 years of working with global thought leaders like Deepak Chopra and the Navy SEAL/Special Operations community, Justin leverages a unique blend of attorney, investor and non-profit expertise to empower founders.
Alpa Saluja
Clinical Insight
Alpa is a professional with a background in pharmaceutical and clinical trial research. She brings experience in quality oversight, project optimization and managing clinical trials while adhering to regulatory standards.
Naseem Sayani
Early Stage Venture Capital
Guided by her genuine passion to improve the world, Naseem is an early stage fund manager in generational health. Her experience in management consulting and sense of empathy allow her to support, elevate, and empower founders.
Dorothea Soule
Energy & Commercialization
A seasoned executive with a global perspective. Dorothea possesses expertise in industrial operations and commercialization with experience across commodities, metals, and recycling.