Michelle Levy, MBA, MHSA

Michelle Levy sits on the Board of Directors of WiNK Therapeutics. She is a Managing Partner and Healthcare Lead of Visionario Venture Capital, a US based fund focused on female and minority founders. Mrs. Levy is a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist with a passion for healthcare. Her experience has allowed her to understand healthcare from the science, business, and delivery perspectives. Leveraging this experience, she is a board advisor and investor to several healthcare and biotech startups.

Michelle is excited about healthcare and healthcare tech solutions that improve patient outcomes, cut costs, and address healthcare disparities for minorities and women. She has an extensive corporate and operational background in healthcare. Prior to completing her MBA and MHSA (Masters in Health Services Administration) from the University of Michigan, she started her career as the head of a histology lab for ACM Medical Laboratories in upstate New York. After graduate school, she worked as a management consultant for a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson, and then transitioned into the pharmaceutical industry at Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS). During her last role at BMS, her team managed the launch of Plavix into a new indication, the then blockbuster brand for the company. In 2006 she and several like-minded angel investors launched Visionario Group LLP.

More recently in 2018, Michelle became an LP investor to Impact X, a UK venture capital fund focused on underrepresented entrepreneurial and creative innovators. Believing in the mission of economic empowerment of women and people of color, she personally lobbied several other senior black women to invest in the fund.

Michelle combines her passion for healthcare with her desire to impact those in the greatest need. As an Afro-Latina women, she is focused on the personally meaningful mission of driving positive change within the Latinx and Black African/Caribbean diaspora. She spearheaded the effort to establish the international Teléfono De La Esperanza center in London, a Spanish speaking mental health crisis center for Latinx immigrants. She is also the Founder & CEO of Inspiring Tomorrow’s Leaders (ITL) which improves academic and life outcomes of disadvantaged African/Caribbean teen girls from Years 9-13. ITL has impacted the lives of over 650 Black girls in London.