Lauren Cochran

Lauren Cochran is Managing Director at Blue Haven Initiative, where she leads strategy and execution for the portfolio of direct investments. Lauren spent five years at Imprint Capital leading investments in emerging and frontier markets that provide a measurable positive social impact as well as a commercial financial return. Previously, Lauren worked for the William J. Clinton Foundation’s Health Access Initiative where she analyzed healthcare infrastructure on the ground in Sub-Saharan Africa, working to fill gaps in the diagnosis, care and treatment of children living with HIV/AIDS. Lauren also worked in private equity, first as an Analyst with Deutsche Bank’s financial sponsors group in New York and then as an Associate at Diamond Castle Holdings, a private equity firm investing in energy, business and financial services and healthcare. Lauren holds a B.S. from Georgetown University, completed the General Course program at the London School of Economics and earned her M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.