Overview
Pamela Goldberg is a former CEO and board member with 20+ years of experience driving strategy, entrepreneurial vision, and operational excellence for successful organizations in the MedTech and digital health field. Goldberg is an internationally recognized leader in medical technology innovation, leading strategy to affect change for industry and regulators. Her focus on collaboration and driving change has been instrumental in making progress with the medical device industry in partnership with the FDA, patient advocacy groups, and clinical sites.
As executives, there will always be better places to be, but I put that relationship in that bucket of things. There are always crises all over the place, like today’s storms, but the hour with Pamela sharpens things to make them better all the time... The investment of time is definitely worth it.
– Vice President & CMO, Fortune 300 Energy Company
Career History
Goldberg was most recently the President and CEO of the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC), where she worked with the medical device industry, FDA, CMS, and patient advocacy organizations to spark improvements in the development, assessment, and review of new medical technologies. Before her time at MDIC, she served as CEO of Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, where she was the first woman to lead the organization in its 30-year history. Goldberg worked closely with industry, academic, and government leaders to advance technology-based solutions that improved the health care system, expanded high-speed Internet access, and strengthened the growth and development of the state’s technology sector with a specific focus on digital health, data analytics, robotics, and cybersecurity.
Passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship, Goldberg served as the Director of The Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at Tufts University, a program she launched to drive innovation for the university. Through Goldberg’s leadership, the program grew to over 500 students per year and supported the start of over 50 businesses. Goldberg received the Acton Foundation’s National Teaching Award for Entrepreneurship and established the school’s nationally recognized business plan competition.
Goldberg is an advisor and board member to several technology startups. Earlier in her career, she launched three start-up ventures: a music production company, a women’s history organization, and a hospice. At the start of her career, she was an investment banker at Citibank and then launched the investment banking division of State Street Bank.
Personal
Goldberg received her BA from Tufts University and her MBA from Stanford University.
