MateriaMateria

Board-certified ophthalmologist and fellowship-trained oculoplastic surgeon. Founding Managing Partner of Sixth House; former Chief Medical Officer of RVO Health; Co-founder of Project Theia (non-profit for delivering resources and care in global communities of need); academic clinician and clinical operations leader at UPMC. Two decades across academic medicine, health-system leadership, digital health and commercialization. She maintains a broad network across the healthcare ecosystem. Passionate for transforming care delivery to be human-centered, and relationship oriented, enabled by technology.

Grace is an operator and strategist in startups and AI. She holds an MS in Longevity Science and brings hands-on experience in mental health care and gerontology, alongside years of personal experience navigating chronic illness. Previously, as Executive Director of AI Training Operations at Invisible Technologies, she built and scaled ops for AI model builders including OpenAI, led a team of 1,500 people across 72 countries, ran client strategy, and closed and managed $100M in revenue. A creative and collaborator at heart, she loves connecting people and ideas to develop promising, unconventional forms of care and bring them into people’s lives.