Beckie Robertson

Ms. Robertson is an executive with 30+ years of venture capital and operating experience. She is a founding member and the previous Managing Director of Versant Ventures, where she specialized in medical devices and diagnostics, since 1999.

Today, through Longridge Business Advisors, Ms. Robertson provides business advisory and board services and served as a general partner at Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), where she was an investor in the life sciences group, from 1997 to 1999. From 1994 to 1997, Ms. Robertson served as senior vice president at Chiron Diagnostics, a division of Chiron Corporation, where she had responsibility for the critical care business unit and led the division’s business development efforts. In 1994, Ms. Robertson was an entrepreneur in residence for IVP in the life sciences group. From 1990 to 1993, Ms. Robertson was a co-founder and Vice President at Egis, a consumer products company. From 1983 to 1990, Ms. Robertson held senior management positions in operations and finance at Lifescan, a Johnson & Johnson Company.