First Lady Annie Lamont

Annie Lamont co-founded Oak HC/FT in 2014 to invest exclusively in healthcare and fintech entrepreneurs. In 2023, Oak HC/FT was named as one of the ten best performing growth equity firms in the world.

Prior to founding Oak HC/FT, Annie spent 28 years at Oak Investment Partners, where she served as Managing Partner and led the healthcare and fintech practices.

Annie has been named to the Midas List multiple times as the top-ranking investor in healthcare. She has also been named to the Top 100 Venture Capitalists (New York Times, CB Insights), Top 20 Private Equity Power Players (Fortune), Fintech Finance 40 (Institutional Investor), and 100 Most Influential People (Modern Healthcare).

She has received multiple Lifetime Achievement awards for her role in transforming the healthcare industry, by finding technology and new commercial models that better align structural economic incentives.

Her contributions include leading early rounds in iconic $10B+ companies (e.g.; One Medical, Athena Health, VillageMD, Devoted Health); being first to declare that she and her team would only invest in companies that simultaneously improve health outcomes and lower costs; creating the hospice category with the first IPO; and igniting investor interest in mental health with the largest mental health IPO in the twentieth century.

Annie has served on the Board of Trustees for Stanford University, from which she received a Bachelor of Arts degree.