Annette Campbell-White

Annette J. Campbell-White is a New Zealand-born venture capitalist.^[1][2]

Biography

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]

Philanthropy

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]