Professional Biography
Elizabeth Crocker is an International Healthcare Advisor, Board Director and Executive working with Science, Service and Technology businesses to improve health for a better quality of life.
Elizabeth currently serves as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Oyster Venture Partners in the United Kingdom and Belgium, and most recently served as the Interim CEO for Great Lakes Biologics in Michigan. Prior to that she was the CEO for CLEWS Medical Limited, a UK medical device company focused on non-invasive accelerated disease detection in children and adults. Over the course of 21 years living in the UK, she founded a UK managed care company working with the National Health Service and Private Medical Insurers; and served as a Board Director and Chief Operating Officer for medical device and telehealth companies.
Prior to moving to the UK in 2000, Elizabeth founded several US healthcare businesses, including a pioneering managed care/case management/outcomes data company that she eventually divided and sold to a NASDAQ and a NYSE listed company respectively.
Elizabeth is a Registered Nurse and was an open-heart/cardiac transplant post-operative clinical specialist. She is currently licensed in the State of New York and until 2004, maintained multi-state licenses in California, Illinois, New York, and Texas. She holds dual master’s degrees in Healthcare Administration and Physiology from Long Island University, New York; and dual bachelor’s degrees in Nursing and Biology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Elizabeth is passionate about horses and how they contribute to a better quality of life, and in the early 90’s taught riding for the disabled in San Juan Capistrano. She sponsored a Para Dressage rider and horse for the US team to the 2014 World Equestrian Games in France and the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.
She is a member of the Women in Leadership Institute and serves as a Key Opinion Leader and Mentor to Women and Minority Owned Entrepreneurs.