Missy Krasner

Vice President & Managing Director, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Box

Panelist, Connect to End Cancer 2017

Missy is Vice President and Managing Director for Healthcare and Life Sciences at Box where she leads the healthcare vertical. Prior to Box, she was an Executive-in-Residence (EIR) at Morgenthaler Ventures and specialized in health IT investments. Missy is also a special advisor at Canvas Venture Fund. Prior to her role in venture, Missy worked at Google for 5 years. She was one of the founding executives of Google Health, an online medical records and wellness platform. Prior to her role at Google, Missy worked for the government under President George W. Bush and in the Secretary’s Office at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She was one of the leading executives in the inaugural office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) for the nation. In that role, Missy worked on legislation that led to the HITECH Act as well as EHR certification and Meaningful Use. Before her role in government, she worked as a Senior Product Marketing Director for CareScience, a healthcare information technology company that developed the first Health Information Exchange (HIE). Prior to her role at CareScience, Missy led communications and research at the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), a non-partisan, national, healthcare policy think tank. Before KFF, she worked at Aetna where she spearheaded provider networking and communications during two massive corporate mergers. Missy is a mentor at StartX, the Stanford University startup accelerator and Techstars, Cedars Sinai Medical Center. She sits on the boards of several digital health companies. Missy has a M.A. from Stanford University in healthcare policy and business administration and a B.A. in English Literature and Theater from UCLA.