Annette J. Campbell-White is a New Zealand-born venture capitalist. [1] [2]
Campbell-White was born in New Zealand and attended the University of Cape Town in South Africa. [1] [2] She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and Master of Science in Physical Chemistry. [3] She was the first biotechnology analyst on Wall Street and the first female partner at Hambrecht & Quist, a leading investment banking firm. [4]
Campbell-White founded MedVenture Associates, a biomedical venture capital firm, in 1986 and was a senior managing director at the firm until her retirement in 2015. [1] [2]
In 2019, she published her memoir, Beyond Market Value: A Memoir of Book Collecting and the World of Venture Capital. [5]
In 1997, Campbell-White established the Kia Ora Foundation to provide educational and other opportunities to musicians and artists from New Zealand. [1] [4]
In 2016, she joined the Wikimedia Endowment Advisory Board to help administer the endowment fund as an ongoing source of funding for the Wikimedia Foundation. [3]
In 2018, Campbell-White was honoured at the sixth annual International Opera Awards for her lifelong commitment to opera and support of young artists and the performing arts. She has been a board member for the San Francisco Opera for many years, and she and her husband have sponsored San Francisco Opera performances since 1995. [1] She had also sat on the board of Cal Performances, a performing arts organisation at the University of California, Berkeley. [3]
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