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Renee Ryan

Investment Advisor

Renee is the CEO of Cala Health, Inc. Cala Health is a bioelectronic medicine company transforming the standard of care for chronic disease.

Renee most recently served as Vice President of Investments at the Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, and was based at the Johnson & Johnson Innovation Center in California. Renee supported the investments for their Medical Devices and Diagnostics businesses.

Formerly, Renee was a Managing Director at Baird in Palo Alto, CA overseeing the medical device investment banking practice.  Prior to Baird, Renee oversaw the build out of the West Coast healthcare investment banking practice at Jefferies & Co.  In total, Renee has approximately 20 years of healthcare investment banking experience at firms such as Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse.  She has structured over $15 Billion of transactions during this time including M&A, venture financing and public offerings of debt and equity.

Renee earned her B.A. in economics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and an MBA from Columbia University.