Anya Schiess
Principal
Anya
joined Thomas, McNerney & Partners in 2008 from Medtronic, Inc. where she
held several sales and marketing leadership roles in the United States and
Europe. Her EMEA roles included managing the market development efforts for
the Neurological businesses, establishing the obesity management business in
Europe, and leading the coronary stent marketing group, which launched two
drug-eluting stents and one bare-metal stent achieving over $200 million in
annual sales. In the U.S., Anya held a sales management position in the
Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management business. Prior to Medtronic, Anya was a
member of the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Foundation HIV/AIDS
initiative and was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. Anya began her
healthcare-focused career at IZEX Technologies, a medical device start-up
company. She is currently a board member of
Locus Development, Inc. Anya
received her M.B.A. with honors from the Wharton School at the
University of Pennsylvania and received her A.B. cum laude from Princeton
University.