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Afia Asamoah

Limited Partner, How Women Invest; Board Member
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Afia Asamoah is from San Francisco, California, United States. Afia works in the following industries: "Law Practice", "Internet", "Government Administration", "Biotechnology", "Medical Device", and "Venture Capital & Private Equity". Afia is currently Limited Partner at How Women Invest. In Afia's previous role as a Head of Legal, Google Health at Google, Afia worked in Palo Alto, California until Nov 2021. Prior to joining Google, Afia was a Senior Counsel, Legal, Regulatory, and Policy at Verily Life Sciences and held the position of Senior Counsel, Legal, Regulatory, and Policy. Prior to that, Afia was a Senior Counsel & Trust and Compliance Officer at Verily Life Sciences, based in Mountain View from Jul 2016 to Jul 2018. Afia started working as Senior Counsel at Verily Life Sciences in Mountain View, CA in Dec 2015. From Feb 2014 to Dec 2015, Afia was Product Counsel at Google, based in Mountain View, California. Prior to that, Afia was a Senior Associate at Covington & Burling LLP, based in New York, NY from Mar 2011 to Jan 2014. Afia started working as Special Assistant to the Principal Deputy Commissioner at Food and Drug Administration in Silver Spring, MD in May 2009.

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Afia Asamoah's current jobs
Company: How Women Invest
Title: Limited Partner
Period: Oct 2020 - Present (4 years, 2 months)

How Women Invest provides capital, mentoring, and a network of influential female leaders to support female startup founders, particularly women of color. https://www.howwomenlead.com/howwomeninvest

Afia Asamoah's past jobs
Company: Google
Title: Head of Legal, Google Health
Period: Jul 2019 - Nov 2021 (2 years, 4 months)
Location: Palo Alto, California

Member of health executive leadership team, leading global team of lawyers and compliance professionals that work with product teams building b2c and b2b medical software and AI enabled health products

Title: Senior Counsel, Legal, Regulatory, and Policy
Period: Jul 2018 - Jul 2019 (1 year)

Reporting to GC, lead team of product/data privacy lawyers, policy, information governance professionals that provide heealthcare law, data privacy and security, regulatory, and public policy support to Verily healthcare technology Product (HW and SW), Business, R&D, Clinical, and Marketing teams

Title: Senior Counsel & Trust and Compliance Officer
Period: Jul 2016 - Jul 2018 (2 years)
Location: Mountain View

Appointed by CEO as Verily's first Trust and Compliance Officer, developed policies and training materials, and presented to Alphabet Board of Directors (Audit Committee) on status of the program. Oversaw and guided Verily's spin out from Google as an independent company in October 2017

Title: Senior Counsel
Period: Dec 2015 - Jul 2016 (7 months)
Location: Mountain View, CA

Built and lead the company's first team of product counsel Established Verily's healthcare compliance program Counseled business units developing a diverse portfolio of healthcare technology and AI products

Company: Google
Title: Product Counsel
Period: Feb 2014 - Dec 2015 (1 year, 10 months)
Location: Mountain View, California

Recruited as the first lawyer supporting product teams building health technology, and led first-ever licensing of Google patents around smart lens technology for Google-Alcon collaboration. Guided clinical and product development teams on contractual issues and medical device clinical trial regulations

Company: Covington & Burling LLP
Title: Senior Associate
Period: Mar 2011 - Jan 2014 (2 years, 10 months)
Location: New York, NY

Counseled pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies, and advocated for those companies at FDA, on the full range of FDA issues involving clinical development, marketing approval, promotion, post marketing requirements, and obtaining and protecting market exclusivity for medical products. Guided investors and acquiring companies evaluate opportunities in the life sciences industry and conducted regulatory due diligence for those deals.

Title: Special Assistant to the Principal Deputy Commissioner
Period: May 2009 - Jan 2011 (1 year, 8 months)
Location: Silver Spring, MD

Guided FDA Commissioner, Principal Deputy Commissioner and senior FDA management on significant regulatory and policy matters across FDA device, drug, biologic, and food product areas. As leader of an agency-wide Transparency Initiative, I worked to improve the transparency and predictability of the FDA regulatory process to spur product innovation. Partnered with senior leaders and staff to develop the strategy for FDA enforcement activities and helped create the new FDA center to regulate tobacco products.

Company: Covington and Burling
Title: Associate
Period: Mar 2007 - May 2009 (2 years, 2 months)
Location: Washington, DC

Guided pharmaceutical and medical device clients on matters including product approval, Hatch-Waxman Amendments, clinical trials, product promotion, fraud and abuse, and HIPPA compliance.

Company: Southern District of New York
Title: Law Clerk
Period: Jan 2006 - Jan 2007 (1 year)
Location: New York, NY

Drafted bench memoranda and published opinions on criminal and civil matters. Oversaw the judicial consent decree governing pretrial detainees at Rikers Island and drafted legislative language (signed into law July 2010) to amend section 702 of the New York State Corrections Law.

Company: U.S. House of Representatives
Title: Public Health Fellow
Period: May 2005 - Jul 2005 (2 months)
Location: Washington, DC

Provided research and management support to health policy leader for majority staff of Government Reform Committee. Drafted an oversight letter to government officials regarding conduct of international drug clinical trials and led staff briefing on FDA drug approval process and international HIV clinical trials.

Afia Asamoah's education
Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
Masters of Public Policy
2003 - 2005
Harvard University
BA
1995 - 1999
Harvard Law School
Doctor of Law (JD)
2001 - 2005
Afia Asamoah's top skills
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Cybersecurity Healthcare Clinical Trials Health technology Legal Compliance Life Sciences FDA Regulatory Compliance Due Diligence Public Policy Clinical Development Research Biotechnology Policy Analysis Change Management Strategy Medical Devices Regulatory Affairs Policy
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