Vera Tice is a board director, global strategic advisor, and technology executive known for her specialized knowledge in healthcare innovation, emerging technologies, and cybersecurity. Her career includes holding senior leadership positions within both healthcare and technology sectors. In both public and private companies, she built and scaled innovation-driven organizations, driving measurable business and revenue growth, and operational impact. Vera’s experience encompasses overseeing mergers and acquisitions initiatives, pioneering new ventures, managing research and development (R&D), advancing international product and service launches from concept to market, and driving commercialization efforts. She has held executive and senior R&D engineering roles with major Global 100 / Fortune 500 corporations such as Quest Diagnostics, Hewlett-Packard Medical (now Philips), and Nokia. Her expertise also extends to small and mid-sized private enterprises, where she held roles as interim CEO, COO, VP of Product Development, and Managing Director.

Her board leadership and governance credentials are extensive. Vera is an independent director on both private and large nonprofit fiduciary boards and was recognized as a 2024 Director to Watch by Private Company Director Magazine. She brings expertise in corporate strategy and growth, M&A, digital and cybersecurity risk oversight, innovation, R&D, and product/service development. She has taken on responsibilities as Board Chair, Vice Chair, and Committee Chair—including Executive, Strategy, Nominating & Governance, Compensation—and contributed to Finance and Audit Committees. Vera has created, built, and reshaped boards, facilitated CEO and C-suite transitions, guided M&A strategies, and led technology and cybersecurity risk oversight initiatives. She has further enhanced her expertise through certificate programs in corporate board governance, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and new technologies / digital transformation.

Currently, Vera is Chair of the Board of Directors at Care Central VNA & Hospice, Inc., and provides advisory services to organizations in the private and public sectors that are investing in healthcare innovation. Most recently, she acted as Interim Executive Chair and CEO during the C-suite and board transitions at Impact Vitals, where she guided the transformation of a private software company specializing in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and their use in physiological applications. Additionally, she contributed as an expert panelist and advisor for national and international organizations, including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Wellcome Trust, influencing key investment decisions to mobilize research and bolster commercialization in healthcare and life sciences.

Vera’s prior executive and engineering roles at Quest Diagnostics, Hewlett-Packard Medical, and Nokia feature prominently in her background. She has co-founded and led two healthcare startups and was instrumental in scaling a third venture, as Founding Managing Director, COO & VP Product Development, and as a member of the CEO’s senior leadership team responsible for strategic initiatives and technical operations. She earned her M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and B.Eng. from Stevens Institute of Technology with High Honors.