Andy Donner

Mr. Donner has over ten years of experience in the financial services, healthcare, and information technology industries. Mr. Donner was previously a Senior Associate with Great Spirit Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund, where he focused on consumer healthcare investments including Attune Foods, LightFull Foods, The Natural Dentist and Corazonas Foods where he currently serves on the board. Mr. Donner led Physic Ventures’ investment in Expresso Fitness where he serves as a Board Director.

Prior to joining Great Spirit Ventures, Mr. Donner spent six years founding, building, and managing rapid-growth companies in the high-tech industry, including atMadison.com, where he served as Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer; Entopia, where he established and directed the product marketing department; and LeapFrog Enterprises, where he developed new business opportunities in the healthcare industry. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Donner was a member of Wasserstein Perella’s Technology Mergers & Acquisitions Group, where he provided transaction execution and advisory services to enterprise software, hardware, and Internet companies. He began his career working for VISTA, the “domestic Peace Corps,” where his leadership of a state-wide public health program was honored at the Presidential Summit for America’s Future.

Mr. Donner graduated cum laude from Duke University’s pre-med program and earned his MBA at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was awarded full-tuition as a Haas Merit Scholar. While earning his MBA, Mr. Donner served as a Graduate Student Instructor for one of the school’s leading entrepreneurship courses and was elected President of the Berkeley chapter of Net Impact, an international organization of business school students committed to social responsibility and environment stewardship.