Gwill York

Gwill co-founded Lighthouse Capital Partners. Since its founding in 1994, Lighthouse committed over $2 billion in capital to over 500 companies in six limited partnerships. She led investments in biotech, medical devices and services, information technology, communications equipment, e-commerce, Internet infrastructure, semiconductors, software, and clean tech companies. Gwill served on the Board of the New England Venture Capital Association for 9 years until 2014. Lighthouse Series A investments included NetFlix, Vertex, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, NVIDIA, NxStage, Insulet, Foundation Medicine, ZocDoc, Impossible Foods, and Rent the Runway. In 2018, she joined the Board of Directors of Sofina, a public investment company based in Brussels and Singapore, investing globally in entrepreneurs and family businesses directly and indirectly through leading venture and private equity firms with an AUM of over $10 billion. In 2021, she joined the Board of Directors of Alto Neurosciences that went public in early 2024. Since moving to the Boston area over 30 years ago, Gwill has committed significant time to mission driven organizations including as President of the Board of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Science, Chair of the Board of Fellows at Harvard Medical School, and member of the Boards of Trustees of Mass General Brigham, One Mind, BB&N School, and the Women’s Foundation of Boston and The Goodness Web. In 2023, she was appointed by Governor Healey to join the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority. Gwill was appointed an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School starting in the fall of 2009 and was re-appointed annually until her election to the Board of Overseers of Harvard University in the spring of 2013. She earned her undergraduate degree in urban and developing economics from Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and lives in Cambridge, MA with her husband. She has two grown sons. She started her career at Salomon Brothers, Fidelity Investments and Comdisco Ventures.