Megan Jenkins joined F-Prime in April 2024. Prior to joining F-Prime, she was Controller at Sandbox Industries managing financial operations, investor reporting, and financial analysis.
Earlier in her career, Megan was a manager at Ernst & Young, LLP in their financial services assurance practice serving public and private clients in the wealth & asset management industry.
Megan earned an MBA and an MS in Accounting from Northeastern University and a BS in Mathematics with a minor in Economics from Union College. She is a Certified Public Accountant.
As CMO of Flywire (Nasdaq: FLYW), Allison sets the company’s marketing and revenue operations strategy worldwide. Since joining Flywire in 2019, Allison has led the growth of its marketing function, building out new teams in APAC and EMEA, and scaling up a new revenue operations function. Allison was also instrumental in leading Flywire to its successful IPO in May, 2021.
She has more than 15 years of marketing experience, including seven years at Rapid7 (Nasdaq: RPD). There, she focused on building and optimizing the company’s growth by building and scaling demand generation, business development, and operations. Previously, she worked at Forrester in several digital and field-based roles.
Allison is on the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, and serves as strategic advisor to early-stage companies. Allison holds a Master of Arts in Integrated Marketing from Emerson College, and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Julia McDowell is a Venture Partner at F-Prime, investing in healthcare technology and services companies and helping them grow, including Axle Health, HiLabs, AmplifyMD, and Spry, among others.
Previously, Julia led the complex care delivery business at Galileo, Inc, a venture-backed, risk-bearing medical provider, serving seniors and medically complex patients in their homes and virtually. Prior to that, Julia held several leadership roles at CVS Health, including as Sr. Director of HealthHUBs, leading commercialization strategy, product innovation, and consumer experience for care delivery in CVS stores. Early in her career, Julia worked all over the world expanding market access to lifesaving drugs and services with the Clinton Health Access Initiative, including building and leading the organization’s first dedicated family planning program
Today, Julia serves on multiple non-profit boards including Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island and Planned Parenthood of Southern New England, Inc. Julia is a former Fulbright Fellow and holds an MBA from Yale University as a Frederick Frank Fellow, an MPH from Emory University as a Woodruff Fellow, and a BA with honors from Brown University.
Michelle Goodrich joined F-Prime as a Manager of Human Resources to support the development and execution of human resource strategies for the firm. Michelle has over 10 years of experience as an HR professional and brings an extensive background in training and development, benefits, employee relations and human resources compliance.
Prior to F-Prime, she oversaw the HR department for Beacon Hill Staffing Group, a billion-dollar staffing agency located nationwide. She has also held various HR roles in insurance, technology, and hospitality-based industries.
Michelle holds a B.A. in Psychology and minored in Business Administration from The University of Massachusetts Lowell, a graduate certificate in Human Resources Management from The University of Massachusetts – Boston, and is a Certified Professional with The Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM-CP).
Raj Basak is a Senior Associate with F-Prime and works across the healthcare sub-sectors including therapeutics, medical technology, and life-sciences tools. Prior to joining F-Prime, Raj was a member of the Healthcare Investment Banking team at Goldman Sachs in New York where he worked on over $15 billion in announced financing and M&A transactions across biopharma.
Raj received his PhD in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry from Yale University and was a part of the Program in Physics, Engineering, and Biology (PEB). Raj’s doctoral research focused on studying the biophysical mechanisms underlying nociception in sensory neurons. While in graduate school, Raj was also a Canaan-Yale fellow with Canaan Partners and an analyst with Certara.
Prior to graduate school, Raj worked in laboratories at Columbia University Medical Center and Brown University. His research has been published in Biophysical Journal, Nature, Science Translational Medicine, among others. Raj also holds a B.S. in Physics with Research Honors from The Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York, where he was awarded the Ward medal. His undergraduate thesis focused on interrogating field theory approaches to quantum tunneling.
Cathy Wong joined F-Prime as Senior Director of Finance in July 2023. Cathy has over 14 years of accounting and finance related experience. Prior to joining F-Prime, Cathy worked as a Controller in the GP Services and management company at THL. Earlier in her career, Cathy held various accounting and tax roles at Blackstone, Bain Capital, Bain & Company, and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
Cathy holds a B.S. in Business Administration with dual concentrations in Accounting and Finance from Boston University. She is a certified public accountant in the state of Massachusetts.
Stephanie is a Venture Partner at F-Prime, advising portfolio companies in the USA, Europe, and India on their GTM strategies for sales, marketing, and customer success. She is also currently a Value Accelerator Operating Advisor at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and previously held roles at Salesforce, Cordial Inc., Iterable, and Optimizely. Prior to her current roles, she was CMO at Gainsight where she successfully re-structured the Marketing and Business Development organizations ahead of the company’s $1.1bn exit in 2020, gaining valuable M&A experience along the way.
Stephanie brings more than 30 years of experience building and advising impactful and customer-centric sales and marketing teams at high-growth SaaS companies. She understands growth stage, scale-up, and established public company structure and culture, with knowledge of scaling companies from $3M ARR to more than $300M.
Stephanie is a graduate of the University of Northumberland, where she received a degree in Marketing (Hons).
Henry Trapnell joined F-Prime as a Director of Industry Networks to support the firm’s Tech Fund in the U.S. and Eight Roads Ventures abroad. He is a strong believer in the power of community to fuel business growth, and loves connecting portfolio company founders with corporate leaders to build symbiotic partnerships.
Prior to F-Prime, he helped lead digital go-to-market strategy at Google for the company’s hardware & services. He previously advised corporate executives on behalf of J.P. Morgan, where he developed a nuanced understanding of the intersection between emerging technologies, finance, and personal relationships.
Henry graduated from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and studied Economics and Chinese at Boston University. He also serves on the board of the Chestnut Hill Community Association in Philadelphia.
Michael is a Venture Partner at F-Prime focusing on FinTech and Saas companies. Previously, Michael was the 1st Finance & Ops hire at multiple venture backed SaaS startups (Affinity, Drawbridge) who built high performing Strategy, Finance, and Ops functions while raising $200M+ from leading venture firms. Earlier in his career, he helped found Fluid Financial, an on-demand invoice financing and cash flow management platform.
In recent years, Michael has leveraged his experience & expertise to serve as Advisor and Investor for numerous early stage startups.
Michael is a resident of Oakland and holds an B.A. in Economics from UC Berkeley.
Carolyn Haley joined F-Prime in 2023 where she serves as a Partner, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Financial Officer and manages the administrative functions of the firm.
Prior to joining F-Prime, Carolyn was a partner and Global Head of Operations and Finance at GMO LLC where she was responsible for the firm’s strategic operating model and led various functions including Operations, Finance, Tax, Corporate Accounting, Enterprise Data Management and Investment Analysis. She also served as President and Trustee of the GMO Trust group of mutual funds, was a member of the Board of Directors for all of the firm’s subsidiaries and a served on several of the firm’s key governance committees, including the ESG and the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Groups. Prior to GMO, Carolyn was Treasurer and Chief Compliance Officer at Tekla Capital Management (formerly Hambrecht & Quist Capital Management LLC). Prior to that, she was a senior manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where she served a broad range of clients in the asset management industry.
Ms. Haley earned her bachelor’s degree in Economics and History from Boston University, graduating magna cum laude, and her Masters of Science in Accounting from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants.