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10 Mayo Clinic partnerships leaders
These ten current and former Mayo Clinic partnerships leaders have held director through chief roles in business development, strategic partnerships, strategic innovation alliances and corporate development at Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic Platform and Mayo Clinic Ventures. A reader can learn how partnerships leaders work at Mayo Clinic from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
01—10Andrew J. Danielsen
LinkedInExperience: Chief Business Development Officer · Mayo Clinic
Chief Business Development Officer at Mayo Clinic since November 2024, based in Rochester, Minnesota. Their profile describes overseeing Mayo Clinic's front door for partnering with companies, entrepreneurs and investors, covering technology development and commercialization. Before that they were Chair of Business Development at Mayo Clinic Ventures (2019 to 2024) and Vice Chair of Mayo Clinic Ventures from 2016.
Carla Johnson
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Strategic Innovation Alliances · Mayo Clinic
Senior Director, Strategic Innovation Alliances at Mayo Clinic since March 2021, based in St. Augustine, Florida. Before that they were Site Planning Administrator (2014 to 2021) and Planning Coordinator (2010 to 2014) in Mayo Clinic's Department of Planning Services, and Section Head, Reporting & Analytics (Enterprise Information Management) at Mayo Clinic (2008 to 2010).
Caroline Sarratt Russell, FACHE
LinkedInExperience: Chair, Business Development · Mayo Clinic
Chair, Business Development at Mayo Clinic since September 2025. They also held Associate Administrator, Clinical Practice & Business Development (August 2024 to October 2025), Associate Administrator, Surgery, Surgical Specialties, & Transplant (2021 to 2024), Administrator, Cancer Services (2019 to 2021) and Operations Administrator (2016 to 2019) at Mayo Clinic.
Craig Pike
LinkedInExperience: Director Corporate Business Development · Mayo Clinic
Director Corporate Business Development at Mayo Clinic since December 2022, based in Rochester, Minnesota. They also held Director, Financial & Business Analytics, International (2020 to 2023), Sr. Manager - Business Development (2018 to 2020), Business Development Manager (2016 to 2018) and Sr. Analyst in the Office of Business Development (2016) at Mayo Clinic.
Jay Tolley
LinkedInExperience: AVP, Strategic Partnerships · Mayo Clinic Platform
AVP, Strategic Partnerships at Mayo Clinic Platform since October 2025. Before that they were AVP, Digital Pathology Platform at Mayo Clinic Platform (2022 to 2025) and sat on the board of Techcyte from 2023 to 2025. Earlier they were Head of Anatomic & Digital Pathology for Health Systems at Labcorp and Vice President & General Manager, Pharma & Life Sciences at Metabolon.
Julie Henry
LinkedInExperience: Chair, Business Development · Mayo Clinic
Chair, Business Development at Mayo Clinic since October 2023, based in Rochester, Minnesota. Before that they were Sr. Director, Business Development in the Department of Business Development (2021 to 2023), and Sr. Director and Director of Operations for Mayo Clinic Ventures from 2019 to 2021. Their profile lists an early role as a licensing assistant at Mayo Clinic Ventures in the 1990s.
Prathib Skandakumaran
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Corporate Development · Mayo Clinic
Senior Director, Corporate Development at Mayo Clinic since September 2023, where their profile says they lead all investments and partnerships for Mayo Clinic Platform and, since joining Mayo Clinic, have closed investments supporting home hospital, digital pathology and healthcare AI initiatives. They also held Director (2021 to 2023), Senior Manager (2021) and Manager (2019 to 2021) roles in Corporate Development at Mayo Clinic, and have been a board member at 3Aware since 2024.
Sandeep Gulati
LinkedInExperience: Director of Business Development - Strategic Partnerships · Mayo Clinic
Director of Business Development - Strategic Partnerships at Mayo Clinic since June 2026, based in Philadelphia. Before Mayo Clinic they were Senior Director of Innovation for new programs and solutions at Navista (2024 to 2026) and Senior Director and head of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at Cardinal Health (2021 to 2023), after Director, Commercial - New Product Development at Cardinal Health (2018 to 2021) and Innovation Lead, Strategic Innovation at BD (2016 to 2018).
Seth Eisenman
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director of Partnerships - Business Development - Diagnostics Portfolio · Mayo Clinic
Sr. Director of Partnerships, Business Development for the Diagnostics Portfolio at Mayo Clinic since August 2026, and Director of Partnerships - Business Development - Diagnostics Portfolio Lead since June 2025. They also held Director of Licensing (2024 to 2025) and Senior Licensing Manager (2023 to 2024) for Orthopedics and Diagnostics at Mayo Clinic Ventures, and co-chaired the Ventures Innovation Program in the Department of Business Development.
Tim Argo
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director · Mayo Clinic, Department of Business Development
Former Senior Director in Mayo Clinic's Department of Business Development (March 2018 to January 2026), and before that Director, Licensing at Mayo Clinic from 1996 to 2018. Their profile highlights expertise in technology licensing, partnerships and innovation, and bringing innovative technology into the clinic and market. Since January 2026 they have been Director of Clinical Innovations at Children's Minnesota.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does a large academic health system decide which companies to take on as strategic partners?
- 02What does a health system's business development team look for before licensing a technology or backing a startup?
- 03How are data and platform partnerships between a health system and outside innovators set up and governed?
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