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RTI International (RTI) is ideally suited to provide global health business and technical assistance to portfolio companies of the Commons Global Health Fund. For more than 30 years, RTI has provided technology assessment and commercialization services for government and industry, engaged in pharmaceutical and medical device research and development, assessed the health impact of new interventions, and strengthen healthcare systems in the developing work through policy analysis and capacity building.

Elizabeth has worked with numerous health care companies in the medical device, biotech, services and IT segments, with a particular emphasis on those developing solutions for diagnosing and treating neglected diseases. She also leads the fund’s K-12 and corporate training investments and serves as a board observer to Apex Learning. Elizabeth currently serves or has served as a board observer to CodeRyte, Combinent Biomedical Systems, HistoRx, Medical Metrx Solutions, TelaDoc and Valeo Medical.

Meg Wirth, is a global health strategy consultant to Commons Capital. She has worked with Commons Capital to develop their global health strategy and partnerships over the last three years. With Commons Capital, she co-led the development of a 2005 workshop entitled ‘Financing Global Health through Social Venture Capital’ funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates and Rockefeller Foundations.

Esmeralda recently obtained her MBA from MIT Sloan, where she mainly focused on Finance and Entrepreneurship. During her studies she served as co-president of the Sloan Entrepreneurs for International Development (SEID), a position which allowed her to advise MIT social inventors on their business strategies. She also holds an M.S. in Economics and has deal making experience in the biotech/medical device field as part of her internship at the MIT Technology Licensing Office.

Commons Capital is a venture capital firm founded to realize competitive rates of return by investing in promising young companies whose products, services and corporate cultures promote a sustainable economy and deliver market solutions to major social and environmental problems. We believe that business can be a powerful force for good in the world and that early stage companies – due to their creativity, flexibility and energy –- have a unique capacity, disproportionate to their size, to generate positive solutions.

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