Carleen Hawn

Carleen is Co-founder and CEO of Healthspottr LLC, a strategic networking and consulting company dedicated to accelerating the transformation of U.S. healthcare through technology and business-model innovations. Carleen has served as CEO since its inception and leads both the consulting and conferencing practices. Healthspottr Consulting, provides advisory services focused on strategy, business development, market development, product development, talent acquisition and thought leadership. Healthspottr Media curates in-person and virtual convenings to help participants foster new ideas, new relationships, and opportunities for new business with one another.

Prior to Healthspottr, Carleen spent nearly two decades as an award-winning business journalist, most notably with Forbes, where she created the well-known Midas List, an index of leading venture capital dealmakers now in its 22nd year of publication. Carleen later served as West Coast Bureau Chief for Fast Company magazine. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines including WIRED, Business 2.0 and Health Affairs.

Carleen serves as a board director or advisor to several firms, including Newtopia (NEWU), a habit change platform serving individuals at risk of chronic diseases, and MyOwnMed.

Carleen earned a B.A. from Barnard College, her M.S. from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and attended both Columbia Law School and Columbia Business School as a Knight-Bagehot Fellow.