Leslie Bottorff

Leslie is the Principal of Bottorff Advisors and focuses on leveraging her extensive experience in healthcare technology companies via board membership and/or consulting to mentor CEOs and teams, helping them to build new products and companies and accelerate growth. In her prior position, Leslie was Sr. Managing Director at GE Ventures, where she led the healthcare investing team. Her investment focus was primarily digital health, big data analytics, and IT/tech enabled devices and services.

Leslie is a strategic and operational leader with deep experience in coaching and mentoring entrepreneurs and start-up company teams that are impacting the healthcare industry with ground-breaking innovations. She has over 40 years’ experience in building companies as a venture capital investor, and as a key sales and marketing executive in both start-up and large medical companies. She has advised over 25 companies as a Board Member or Observer on strategic transformations, commercial accelerations, recruiting CEOs, successfully transitioning management teams through growth phases, supporting fund raising, facilitating exit strategies, and corporate governance compliance.

Leslie is also a veteran operating executive in the medical device industry, serving in senior sales and marketing roles while leading companies through both product development and rapid commercial growth stages. She is an innovative leader who has built teams from scratch, successfully launched a wide array of novel medical devices, defined and implemented strategies, developed new products, created new markets, and pioneered adoption of new medical procedures and applications for both large multinational corporations and venture backed start-up companies.

Leslie received her MBA from Harvard Business School and BS in Interdisciplinary Engineering with concentration in biomedical and electrical engineering from Purdue University. She has served on advisory boards or as guest faculty at several universities, including Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Purdue University.