Springbank Collective

Brian Nguyễn is an investor at Springbank. Before joining Springbank, Brian led product at Unite Us, a social care coordination platform, where he was responsible for the referral and case management platform that connected healthcare providers and care-based organizations. He worked closely with Kaiser Permanente and CVS Health on statewide initiatives. Brian also works with the former Chief Medical Officer of Medicaid at Social Innovation Ventures on research and consulting. Before Unite Us, he was at Helix building genetics products in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic and Mount Sinai. ‍ Brian graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in cognitive science and computer science.

Elana Berkowitz is a founding partner of Springbank. A serial social entrepreneur and policy wonk, she’s a former Obama Administration technology policy official who has worked across the Obama-Biden Transition Team, the FCC and Secretary Clinton’s office at the State Department. She also served as innovator-in-residence for CARE, one of the world’s largest humanitarian organizations. She’s acted as an advisor on strategy, user insights, and impact partnerships consulting for companies and organizations, including Etsy, Kickstarter, Google, and Code for America. She also worked at McKinsey as a technology, media, and telecom consultant across 10 countries.

Jen Lee Koss is a founding partner of Springbank. She has spent the majority of her professional career focused on the consumer and retail sectors. In 2012, she founded an experiential retail agency, BRIKA (acquired in 2021 by SALTXC), that has collaborated with some of the best brands, property developers, and retailers across North America. Prior to BRIKA, she worked for over a decade in management consulting (The Parthenon Group and The Bridgespan Group), in investment banking, and as an investor — both across private equity and funds’ management at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. ‍ Jen has an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MPhil from the University of Oxford and an A.B. Magna cum laude from Harvard University.