Rachel Feinman is the Vice President of Innovation at Tampa General Hospital and the Managing Director of TGH Ventures, the innovation, investment and commercialization arm of the Tampa General Hospital system.  In her role, Rachel leads innovation at TGH, including strategic partnerships focused on driving value creation for the system.  She also oversees the organization’s venture investment strategy, managing a portfolio of early to growth stage startups and sourcing additional opportunities.

Rachel has a passion for influencing the strategy and driving the action that enables impactful innovation to truly transform the delivery of healthcare.  She also enjoys working with and mentoring early-stage startups and emerging entrepreneurs, most recently having served as the Executive Director of the Florida-Israel Business Accelerator, an organization focused on helping high impact Israeli startups penetrate the U.S. healthcare market.

Rachel is a fully recovered business attorney with a long career advising clients raising from private investment funds to startups to large corporate organizations.  As an attorney, she specialized in business transactions of all kinds, with a specialization in private equity and venture capital transactions, as well as intellectual property protection and technology licensing deals.

Rachel also has varied philanthropic interests, serving on non-profit boards like the Gasparilla International Film Festival and the Florida Venture Forum.

Rachel lives in Tampa with her husband Josh and her two sons, Asher and Ezra, as well as her step-son, Brooks.  She enjoys traveling with her family, quiet time at the beach and watching her sons play baseball.