Meet the Panelists

Ann Garnier, founder and CEO of Lisa Health, is a veteran C-level operator and women’s health expert. She helped to create, launch, and scale innovative health tech companies. Prior to Lisa Health, Ann was COO at CarePayment, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Operations at RelayHealth (McKesson), and Vice President, Strategy and Marketing for Paradigm Health (Optum). Ann is a sought-out advisor for numerous healthcare companies. She sits on the advisory boards for FemTech Collective and the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association Bay Area chapter. Ann is also an AllRaise and HLTH CSweetener mentor and an ambassador for AnnieCannons.

Kaitlin Christine is a breast cancer survivor and ovarian cancer previvor who has made it her life’s work to empower women to understand their bodies and advocate for themselves. Kaitlin is currently the CEO & Founder at Gabbi, Inc. where she and the Gabbi team are on a mission to decrease delayed diagnosis. Gabbi is the first digital health solution that accurately & inclusively predicts a woman’s risk for breast cancer and equips her to take action with community support.
Kaitlin has spent over 9 years in women’s health—working for leading nonprofits and as a sought after national speaker. As the youngest hire for the world’s leading genetic testing company, Myriad Genetics, she led sales in the PNW. Kaitlin Christine lives in Portland, Oregon. She frequents the Portland State Farmers Market every Saturday and is a certified yoga teacher, avid hiker, and (un)professional wine aficionado.

Marina Pavlovic Rivas is the Co-founder and CEO of Eli Health. Hormones are core to women’s reproductive and general health, yet they remain a black box. Eli unlocks this box and puts daily hormonal data in women’s hands. The company develops a consumer device that uses saliva to monitor hormone fluctuations at home. It’s combined with an app that provides insights into how hormone levels change every day and what this means in relation to health needs from puberty to menopause.

Paxton Maeder-York is the CEO & Founder of Alife Health. He was previously an early engineer and the first product manager at Auris Health (acquired by J&J for $3.4B), where he helped develop a surgical robotics platform to detect and treat early stage lung cancer. He holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering, an MS in Computational Science, and an MBA from Harvard University.