Hank Plain

Partner

Hank Plain joined Morgenthaler Ventures in 2007 after more than 25 years in the life science industry. He is also a Founding Partner of Lightstone Ventures. Plain serves as head of the Life Science team at Morgenthaler Ventures

Plain began his career in 1980 at Eli Lilly, where he worked for 12 years in various management positions. He left Lilly to become CEO of Morgenthaler portfolio company – Perclose, where he led the company through a successful IPO and acquisition by Abbott Laboratories. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, he co-founded eight medical device companies along with the team at The Foundry medical device incubator.

Plain serves on the boards of Imperative Care, Zeakal and Setpoint Medical. He previously served on the boards of eight companies that were acquired – Claret, Twelve Medical, Ardian, Access Closure, Acclarent, Cabochon, EPI and TransVascular.

He is the Chair of the Naval Postgraduate School Foundation in Monterey, CA. NPS is our nation’s premier graduate school with 1,500 students from all four branches of the US Military.   Plain also serves on the board of the First Tee of Monterey County.

Education:

University of Missouri – Columbia (B.S. Finance)

Focus:

Life Sciences/Medical Devices