Krista M.C. Conley

Ms. Conley is a senior executive & proven entrepreneur who accelerates growth, operations,

and innovation for early stage, growth stage, and non-profit organizations.

Start-Up Leadership: A proven founder, she exited her first company, Cambridge Translation Resources, to a British firm backed by Boston’s Great Hill Partners – one of the first women entrepreneurs to exit to private equity in Boston. She then served as retained COO for the restructuring & scale of Green Mountain Logic, a Vermont-based clinical workflow solutions company, which exited to PhaseForward, and was subsequently purchased by Oracle. She restructured the Center for Women & Enterprise, leading to increased national impact for female founders.

She was an active member of North Country Angels, an angel group run by the Tuck School of Business, often syndicating deals with NYC and Boston, where she evaluated leadership teams and go-to-market strategies. She has advised innovation incubators at Dartmouth, Georgetown, Halcyon, Middlebury and more.

Digital Health Innovation: In 2010, Ms. Conley launched Vtrim Online Solutions, commercializing UVM and NIH research in digital health and obesity management. Vtrim received $8 million in NIH funding, with 5 studies proving efficacy. Vtrim went on to receive both a Top Ten Innovation award and recognition from the National Cancer Institute as a Research-Tested Intervention Program, recognized as one of the first digital health start-ups with outcome data.

In San Francisco, she worked for Omada Health, on the first commercial team working to educate and engage Commercial payers on the ROI of an online digital diabetes prevention program. She has consulted with leading healthtech ventures, including substance use disorder and behavioral health, signing 20+ Medicaid payer contracts, and serving on the team that secured FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for intubation innovation.

Non-Profit: As COO of the Primary Care Collaborative, she grew the non-profit membership by 40% in 12 months ($3M), oversaw a CMS grant, and worked closely with the Board, which included the CEOs of APA, AAFP, ACOG, Black Women’s Health Imperative, etc.

Ms. Conley graduated from Middlebury College, with a degree in History and Mandarin Chinese: Greater China clients including Disney, Newsweek, and the Hong Kong Government. Formerly based in Boston, she currently lives in Arlington VA.