Heather is a business development and partnerships leader who leverages a foundation in venture finance and investing to grow businesses. She collaborates with startups to Fortune 50 companies, and has experience as a founder and board member of companies with up to $50M in sales. 

She built her financial discipline and ability to assess markets as an equity and debt investor at leading VC & PE firms and banks, including Silicon Valley Bank, Wells Fargo/Foothill Capital, Kayne Anderson, and Motorola Ventures. Her efforts resulted in 6 exits, including 3 IPOs and 3 acquisitions by strategic buyers.

Heather expanded her tool kit at Adobe and Logitech by honing her product mindset and customer focus as a business development and partnerships leader for a range of consumer products, and as a founder of an eCommerce business that has been featured in NBC News, Oprah, and People Magazine.

She works alongside product, marketing, engineering, and UX to create partnerships - many of which have been a first of its kind for companies - of new products and services. 

Heather's breadth of 45+  deals total over $100M and have ranged from strategic investments, product integration, licensing, revenue share and wholesale relationships.