Speaker's Profile

Prior to helping start Flare Capital Partners in 2013, Bill was with North Bridge Venture Partners since inception in 1994. 

During Bill’s more than twenty-year tenure investing in young and emerging healthcare technology companies, he has served on the Boards of numerous industry-leading companies, actively helping and working closely with founders and management. His current and prior firm’s healthcare investments include Aetion, BeMe Health, Bright Health, Cohere Health, Circulation, ClearDATA, Health Verity, Inbound Health, Iora Health (Amazon/One Medical), Positive Development, SmarterDx, Somatus, Suki, Valence Health (Evolent Health), VisitPay (R1), Humedica (Optum Analytics), Explorys (IBM), Connance (Waystar), Phase Forward (Oracle), Pharmetrics (IMS Health), and eBenX (ADP).

Bill holds a BS from Boston College Carroll School of Management and an MPH in Epidemiology from Harvard Chan School of Public Health. He has served Boston College in a variety of capacities, including former Chair of the Board of Trustees and former member of its Investment & Endowment Committee. Additionally, Bill has been Chair of the Parents Committee of Duke University and Chair of the Parents Advisory Board of Stanford University. He served on the Board of Trustees of the MGH Institute of Health Professions, was appointed by former Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker to the Oversight Council of the Center for Health Information and Analysis, and is on the Advisory Council of the Department of Biomedical Informatics of Harvard Medical School.

bill@flarecapital.com  /  @billgeary  /  linkedin.com/in/bgeary