Carl Bouthillette is a former senior program investment officer for the CHCF Innovation Fund, which invests in technology and service companies with the potential to significantly lower the cost of care or improve access to care for Californians with low incomes.

Prior to joining CHCF, Carl led the screening and evaluation process for HealthTech Capital, a network of angel investors focused on health care IT companies. He is the founder of Metis Lighthouse, a consulting firm providing strategic and commercial guidance to medical device and mobile health start-ups. Carl also volunteers as an advisor at StartX, an educational nonprofit accelerator. Carl also served as director of Coronary Marketing at Abbott Vascular and ran the company’s operations in Southeast Asia and Canada as general manager. At the start of his career, Carl was an early employee at a start-up company manufacturing custom DNA, genes, and peptides. Carl received a bachelor’s degree in biomedical sciences from Texas A&M University and a master’s degree in business administration from INSEAD in France.

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