Sharon Knight

Venture Partner at JAZZ Venture Partners

Sharon is a wellness and healthy aging champion with deep experience in finance, planning and operations that she deploys as a growth and operations strategist for healthcare and health tech startups.

After leading finance and development functions and multi-national teams at KFC, Gap, and Electronic Arts, she joined One Medical Group, which went public in 2020 and is now owned by Amazon, as President. After overseeing the clinic’s growth beyond San Francisco to NYC, Washington, Boston and Chicago, Sharon served as COO of The Plant Café Organic, championing food as medicine, and President and COO of Hawthorne Effect, which is transforming how clinical trials are conducted. Most recently, she led Stop the Spread, a COVID-19 response nonprofit formed to catalyze the private sector’s response to the pandemic with support from Impact Assets and Google.org.

Sharon holds an MBA in Finance from Northwestern University and a BA in Economics from Smith College.

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JAZZ Venture Partners

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JAZZ Venture Partners invests in companies that extend the boundaries of human performance — improving how we live, learn, work, play, and experience the world. They seek breakthroughs at the frontiers of technology and science, such as advances in artificial intelligence, neurobiology, augmented reality, and closed-loop human-computer systems. Their portfolio companies are unlocking human potential in health, mind-body wellness, accelerated learning and training, sports, entertainment, and the enterprise.


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