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Margaret Laws
President and CEO, Hopelab
Margaret Laws is president and CEO of Hopelab, leading a multidisciplinary team combining behavioral science, user-centered design, and partnership with innovators to create technology products to help improve health and well-being for teens and young adults. In 2020, Hopelab launched an external investments practice, investing in companies focused on mental health and well-being of teens and young adults and the health of LGBTQ+ young people. Previously, Laws served at the California Health Care Foundation in roles including director of public financing and policy and director of the Innovations for the Underserved program. She founded the CHCF Health Innovation Fund, which invests in health care technology and service companies that improve access to and lower costs of health care. Laws also held positions with Accenture, the World Health Organization, Mentor Clinical Care, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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Today's young people (Gen Z) are the most diverse generation yet, have grown up as digital natives, and report poorer mental health outcomes than previous generations. Venture...