LISA COCA, Advisor

Lisa most recently served as a Managing Director and Entrepreneur-in-Residence with Intel’s Emerging Growth & Incubations Division, where she led teams responsible for creating disruptive new businesses. From January 2012 through April 2019, she worked at GE Ventures, where she was responsible for launching and leading the Enterprise Software Investment practice as well as the EDGE program, a platform for portfolio companies to leverage the global scale, expertise, and resources of GE. From 2008 through 2011, she served as the Global Sustainability and Ecomagination Leader for GE Real Estate where she launched a program to leverage technology and operating best practices to reduce the environmental impact of its assets and improve financial performance. From 2005 through 2007, she was a Managing Director in GE Real Estate’s Commercial Initiatives Group where she collaborated with regional P&Ls to explore, develop, structure, and launch new investment opportunities. From 1998 through 2003, Lisa was a Director of Sales & Distribution at GE Real Estate where she managed distribution and investor relations for the real estate mezzanine debt and real estate opportunity funds.

Lisa graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with Honors, and earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.