Brian Rosnov is co-Founder and leader of external venturing activities at Philips HealthWorks in North America. Philips HealthWorks is a global seed+ stage community engagement program and venture capital fund seeking to partner and invest in the world’s best founders pursuing breakthrough innovations with the potential to solve the world’s toughest health challenges and which are aligned with the strategy and mission of Philips. In his role, Brian’s responsibilities include investment strategy, opportunity selection and funnel management, program and deal execution, portfolio management, global partnership development, and community creation and management.
For nearly 20 years Rosnov has served in various business executive and innovation roles for Philips within the Boston medtech and digital health community. Prior to the creation of Philips HealthWorks, Rosnov served for nearly a decade as both General Manager and head of Research & Development for Philips Telemetry and Wireless Solutions business based in Andover, MA, where he led the Philips IntelliVue portfolio of in-hospital wearable monitoring and connected health solutions to its current global leadership position and enabling high quality care for millions of critically ill patients annually. Over the course of his career at Philips, Rosnov has also been awarded several patents, and in 2012, he was awarded the “CEO Innovation Award” by Philips in recognition of his efforts to deliver breakthrough innovations to the global healthcare industry.
Prior to joining Philips, Rosnov was a Principal at Envoy Networks, a venture-backed, intelligent cellular radio company, which was acquired by Texas Instruments in 2002, and held various technical leadership roles at Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies.
Rosnov earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Cornell University and was awarded Cornell’s National Scholar Award. He received his Master of Business Administration from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rosnov, his wife Kelley, and their 5 children are life-long residents of Massachusetts and enjoy supporting in a variety of social and community organizations in greater Boston. Rosnov is also an active advisor to early stage founders in the Boston community, across a variety of industries.
