Roy Rosin
"Across my career in technology and healthcare, I've started a business from scratch, worked with founders from day one to exit, turned around struggling businesses and helped transform companies into category leaders. Having spent 12 years as Chief Innovation Officer at Penn Medicine and 18 years at Intuit, I've learned that going from an idea to something that makes a material difference is hard, but so fun. Now at First Round, I work closely with founders in these early days, providing guidance wherever I can for what matters most to their business."
I've always loved the earliest days of building products and services that can meaningfully change lives. Whether it's making introductions to the first few customers, thinking through development priorities, refining sales strategy, helping with key hires, or defining ways to experiment more quickly, I apply principles from 30 years as a product and business leader along with the curiosity needed to keep learning what works.
Roy spends most of his time at First Round in the healthcare space, drawing from his experience as Chief Innovation Officer at Penn Medicine. During his 12-year tenure there, his team designed, tested and implemented 150 technology-enabled interventions across care delivery. These novel solutions decreased readmission rates, ER utilization, morbidity, hospital stays, and clinician burden while increasing adherence, screening, patient engagement, quality of life, and use of high-value sites of care.
Earlier in his career, Roy built and led the innovation program at Intuit, where he spent 18 years. Starting as the product manager of Quicken, he helped grow it into the top-selling consumer software application with 14 million consumers. After five years of redesigning entrepreneurial practices, which were also applied to existing businesses, Intuit delivered shareholder returns 33x the S&P 500.
Throughout his career, Roy has learned from some of the best, from Scott Cook, Bill Campbell and Brad Smith at Intuit to leading behavioral scientists at Penn to remarkable founders who showed him how hard things could become possible. He received his MBA from Stanford and graduated with honors from Harvard College as a John Harvard Scholar.