Sharon Knight

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.