Joel Kanter

Joel Kanter has been a health care venture capital investor for the past 30 years, investing in a wide array of device, life sciences, services, and consumer product companies like Plax Mouthwash, SoniCare toothbrushes, and the Clarisonic facial cleanser. In that capacity, he serves on a number of private and public company boards. He has been involved in the gun violence prevention movement primarily because of the time he spent on Capitol Hill working for then-Congressman Abner J. Mikva (D-Ill.), a champion of firearm regulation. Joel is also a former Board Chair and Trustee Emeritus at the Langley School in McLean, Virginia; a former Trustee of the Georgetown Day School; and a member of the Executive Committee of the Kennedy Center’s National Committee for the Performing Arts.