 | Denise Prince, MBA, MPH |  | Jim Peters, MBA Managing Partner, Geisinger Ventures | |
 | Mike Hoerres, MS |  | Steve Christensen, MBA Director | |
 | Lisa K. Miller Associate Executive Assistant | |||
Denise Prince, MBA, MPH
Founder and Managing Partner, Geisinger Ventures
CEO, Geisinger Medical Management Corporation
Denise Prince describes Geisinger Ventures and innovation in healthcare delivery
As Founder and Managing Partner, Geisinger Ventures, Ms. Prince oversees Geisinger Health System's venture and technology transfer strategies. She launched Geisinger Ventures in late 2003 with the goal of pursuing commercial opportunities to benefit the system’s core mission. Ms. Prince joined Geisinger in 1989 and has developed more than 10 new healthcare service businesses in both the not-for-profit and for-profit sectors. As Founder & Managing Partner, Geisinger Ventures, Ms. Prince oversees Geisinger Health System's venture and technology transfer strategies.
Since starting the Ventures group, Ms. Prince has been actively involved in the development of all of Geisinger Ventures portfolio companies and strategic partnerships. She currently serves as CEO of both Geisinger Medical Management Corporation and Geisinger Community Health Services, and is also a member of the board of ISS Solutions, Geisinger’s clinical engineering and IT services company and SureHealth LLC, a retail and specialty pharmacy company.
As Senior Vice President of Diversified Services for 12 years, Ms. Prince expanded Geisinger’s for-profit pharmacy capabilities to include retail, institutional and mail-order services. She led development of Geisinger’s home infusion pharmacy, home health and hospice businesses. Her other start-ups include community-based sleep laboratories, niche benefit management services, an outpatient surgery center, and a nurse-based program for improving healthcare provided to mentally challenged individuals. She also expanded programs in occupational medicine, vocational rehabilitation and personal emergency response services.
Before joining Geisinger, Ms. Prince worked as an associate for a healthcare management consulting firm, Amherst Associates (merged into Ernst and Young), and for hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area. She earned her B.A. cum laude in Economics and French from Mount Holyoke College, where she received the Paul F. Saintonge Prize in French and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She earned M.B.A. and Master of Public Health degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ms. Prince is a member of numerous professional associations, including Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry, the American College of Healthcare Executives, and the Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development. She is also active in several economic development organizations.
Jim Peters, MBA
Managing Partner, Geisinger Ventures
CEO, MedMining
As Managing Partner, Geisinger Ventures, Mr. Peters oversees Geisinger Health System's venture and technology transfer strategies. He brings a combination of executive leadership, venture capital, healthcare, and technology experience to his role at Geisinger Health System.
Mr. Peters provides venture direction for initiatives involving information services, genomics and personalized medicine, specialty pharmacy, home infusion, remote patient monitoring, and consumer oriented models of care. In addition, Peters founded and serves as CEO of one of Geisinger Ventures’ portfolio companies, MedMining, an information services business serving the pharmaceutical research market that has consistently experienced significant top and bottom line growth since inception.
Prior to Geisinger, he served as Principal for Updata Venture Partners, a $450M venture capital firm that invests in early- and expansion-stage Software and Healthcare IT companies, and was a member of Updata’s Senior Leadership team that successfully delivered performance that scored in the top decile among its peers. Mr. Peters’ investment focus included market research, analytics, business intelligence and healthcare informatics. Prior to Updata, Peters founded and grew a successful technology services firm that serviced the medical and consumer packaged goods industries. Earlier in his career, he served as a Senior Consultant at Andersen Consulting in New York City.
Mr. Peters is a Senior Scholar appointed by the Department of Health Policy of Jefferson Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. He is a Member of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, the American College of Healthcare Executives, and the Wharton Healthcare Management Alumni Association. In addition, he serves as Adjunct Lecturer at Lehigh University’s College of Business and Economics, has started a number of perennial fundraising initiatives, and is an active Parkinson’s disease advocate.
Peters serves on numerous Boards, including that of Ben Franklin Technology Partners, a nationally acclaimed organization dedicated to funding and growing Pennsylvania's technology-based economy. Peters received his BA from Lehigh University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and played Division I varsity baseball; he completed continuing professional education in Healthcare Strategy at the Harvard School of Public Health; and he earned an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
A Principal in Geisinger Ventures, Mike Hoerres is responsible for working with colleagues in Geisinger research and the Geisinger Clinic to commercialize new discoveries in the life sciences, genomics and proteomic research areas that will ultimately lead to improvements in patient care.
A seasoned professional with extensive entrepreneurial and operations experience in life science and biopharmaceutical companies, Mr. Hoerres brings to the position exceptional industry and scientific knowledge. He is skilled at strategic counsel as well as the hands-on support to foster growth in new projects.
Prior to joining Geisinger, Hoerres was Vice President of Business Development at Source MDx, where he shepherded the licensing of the Source MDx platform for use in the clinical trial businesses of the nation’s two largest reference laboratories. He also developed biomarker and companion diagnostic collaborative agreements, including licensing rights to companion diagnostics and stand-alone diagnostics, based on collaborative research plans. Prior to that, he served as Clinical Market Development Manager at Affymetrix and Director of Business Development at Incyte Genomics.
Hoerres holds a BS in biochemistry of University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and a MS in molecular immunology from San Diego State University.
Steve Christensen, MBA
Director
Steve Christensen leads business development initiatives involving health information technology and healthcare services. Additionally, he supports the incubation of new ventures within the Geisinger Health System, providing leadership in business development, strategy, and finance.
He came to Geisinger Ventures after founding Nittany Lion Venture Capital, an early-stage venture fund where he served as a Managing Director. His experience also includes serving as an analyst for Ben Franklin Technology Partners, where he designed a portfolio management system and investment screening platform. He also worked as a business consultant for the Penn State Small Business Development and as a U.S. Senate aide and government lobbyist.
He received an M.B.A. from The Pennsylvania State University Smeal College of Business, and a B.A. in Political Science from Brigham Young University.
Lisa K. Miller
Associate Executive Assistant
Ms. Miller provides advanced administrative support to the managing partners of Ventures. She serves as primary liaison for her principals with system staff, representatives from external organizations, and executive leaders. She also manages special projects.
Ms. Miller joined Geisinger in 2004, providing clinical and administrative support in Women's Health until 2008. Most recently she served as senior administrative support to the Strategic Network Development team.
