Avantika Daing and John McCormick.

Avantika is a partner at Plum Alley, an investment platform focused on investing in gender diverse founding teams and raising the equity bar for investors. Having scaled teams and businesses to billion+ dollar valuations and a successful IPO (NASDA), respectively, across health care and technology. Her diverse background across early stage, growth and a public exit provides Plum Alley with a unique perspective during deal sourcing, evaluation and strategic direction. As a founder of a cross border SaaS company, early team member of a first to market biotech product and as an executive in Unicron companies she has expertise focusing on analytics, proprietary modelling and growth strategies in venture-backed companies. Her domain knowledge spans healthcare, CPG, HCM, Foodtech and market places. She is active in the startup ecosystem in New York, San Franciso, London and India and is a TEDx speaker.   

John is the managing director at InnovaHealth Partners. From 1996, John was a Principle at BPI Capital Partners, LLC where he worked closely with Tim Berkowitz, the President and CEO of InnovaHealth Partners. In the 1990s, he was an Associate with Baker Nye, LP a US $600 million hedge and private equity fund. He started his career as a macroeconomic and financial research analyst at the World Bank in Washington DC.   John currently serves on the Board of Directors of Koelis, SAS and OrthoAccel Technologies, Inc. He had previously served as a member of the Leadership Board of the McGovern Institute of Brain Research at M.I.T and on the Executive Committee of the Board of Associates of the Whitehead Institute, also at M.I.T.