Jessica Zeaske

Managing Partner

Echo Health Ventures

As Managing Partner at Echo Health Ventures, Jessica identifies and invests in emerging and growth stage companies and supports Echo’s mission is to drive systemic health care transformation through hands-on, purpose-driven strategic investing. She is a seasoned venture capitalist and board leader, having worked at independent, corporate, and university funds, and has written dozens of investment themes over the years.

Speaker Questionnaire

What are your top priorities for employee health and well-being in 2022?

Personalized benefit design, Affordability, Pharmacy transparency.

What are the most innovative programs that you will focus on in 2022 and 2023?

Pharmacy affordability and transparency, DE&I focused services.

Looking at our three moonshots surrounding costs, culture, and care, which do you align with the most? What are you doing in this area?

Care - trying to build more patient-centric innovative companies.

If you could automatically receive a 25% reduction in costs in three areas/programs, what would your dream list be?

Oncology, MSK, Specialty Pharma.

Is there an area where you were able to either create savings or stop costs from rising?

Echo Health Ventures portfolio is full of ideas for addressing costs.

Are you doing anything to reimagine corporate culture and wellbeing?

N/A

If there were two physical solutions that could be turned into virtual or remote care instead, what would those be?

Cardiology Monitoring (like Heartbeat Health), Pregnancy Journey (like Wildflower Health).

If you look at our 3 Moonshots - Costs, Culture, and Care; In one sentence, tell us what would be something positive for us to take from 2020 and bring into this new year?

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1 Conference. 3 Moonshots.

Remember the mission to reach the moon? In 1962, President JFK set forth a vision. He initiated a movement that outlived him! Even in his death, the mission was accomplished seven years after his famous speech. Now we’re on a five-year mission, and it's not about us. This is a mission for you – the individual, the stakeholder, the employer healthcare and benefits professional. Join the mission to reduce costs, reimagine culture, and reinvent care.