Geoffrey W. Smith

Founder / Chairman

Geoffrey W. Smith is the Founder of the Digitalis Group which is made up of Digitalis Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in solutions to unmet needs in health, Digitalis Commons, a non-profit organization developing public-interest technologies for better health, and Digitalis Research, an applied research organization building new ideas at the intersection of health and technology.

Geoff serves as a Trustee of The Jackson Laboratory where he is a member of the Executive Committee and Chair of the Finance & Investment Committee. He is also a Director of Salzburg Global. Geoff is a founding member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Previously, he was the founding Director of the Mount Sinai Institute of Technology and a Professor in the Department of Population Health Science and Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Geoff received a B.A. (with honors) from Williams College and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.