John Noonan is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lifeforce Capital who combines an unusual background of senior U.S. healthcare policy work at the Department of Health and Human Services with private-sector dealmaking experience as Vice President of Corporate Development at Gerson Lehrman Group. He was recognized as Angel Investor of the Year by Rock Health, Goldman Sachs, and Fenwick & West for his early backing of digital health startups, and he actively invests in companies applying nontraditional biological insights like hibernation biology and age-related genetic risk to drug discovery.