Our team

Our team leverages deep experience in healthcare, technology, and venture capital investing to support the early-stage companies in which we invest. We have immediate access to unique and relevant expertise and perspectives that founders value. We combine our experience in leading and operating companies, venture investing and management, corporate strategy, and serving on the boards of venture-backed companies to offer meaningful support and insights to founders.

Ensemble Innovation Ventures Fund Team

Investment Team

Helen Drexler

Helen Drexler

Managing Director

Helen Drexler is a seasoned healthcare executive with a passion for creating highly functioning teams that work from a foundation of trust to achieve great results.

Brian Armstrong

Managing Director

Brian Armstrong has more than 30 years of capital markets experience including venture capital investment and management, M&A, corporate finance and operations, and corporate strategy.

Shannon Flahive

Shannon Flahive

SENIOR VENTURE ASSOCIATE

Shannon Flahive has more than a decade of experience in early-stage investing and consulting, working with companies from formation to exit in a variety of sectors including consumer goods, healthcare, and technology.

Academic Associates

Sarah Kravitz

Deming Center Venture Fund
University of Colorado MBA 2024

Jack Shapiro

Deming Center Venture Fund
University of Colorado JD 2025

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