About the Author

Sally Frank leads the worldwide HLS strategy, programs, and portfolio for Microsoft for Startups, an organization dedicated to accelerating the development of innovative companies. Through business strategy planning, go-to-market development, and technical excellence, she enables startups to achieve their revenue and long-term goals. Additionally, Sally directly mentors health and life sciences founders at all stages of their company’s development to help them thrive and positively impact the global healthcare delivery system. She also works directly with enterprise companies, VCs, accelerators, and other ecosystem players to facilitate connections, learning and collaboration across the various stakeholders.

Previously, she was part of Microsoft’s IoT Solutions team, helping healthcare and life sciences companies use IoT to improve patient outcomes and operational efficiency. With more than 20 years in the technology industry, she is focused on business outcomes, helping providers, payers, medical device, pharmaceutical and life sciences companies use IoT, Machine Learning, AI and a variety of other Microsoft technologies to meet the changing demands of the healthcare industry.

She earned an MBA from The George Washington University (Washington, DC), an MS in Systems Management from the University of Southern California and a BS in Marketing with a minor in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.