Anne Katharine Wales

Anne Katharine Wales

Medtronic Foundation
Anne Katharine Wales serves as the senior philanthropy portfolio lead at the Medtronic Foundation. She brings a passion for social entrepreneurship and healthcare innovation and enjoys developing and executing a high-impact strategic vision. Throughout her career, she’s been involved in the social entrepreneurship/innovation space, marketing and raising impact capital at Calvert Foundation and Agora Partnerships, providing strategic consulting to entrepreneurs and foundations at Community Wealth Partners and UNC Health Care, and building the social entrepreneurship ecosystem through work at the Council for Entrepreneurial Development and Innovations in Healthcare. Anne Katharine holds an MBA from Wake Forest University and a BA in public policy from Duke University.