Amanda is the inaugural Director of Strategic Partnerships, SHC, a new role tasked with designing and supporting a centralized industry intake process for proposed novel operations and care delivery solutions. Amanda and her team will support a governance process with key SHC leaders and faculty to select strategic partners for innovative co-creation and support contracting, pilot management, KPIs, and exits of those solutions to ensure alignment with the tripartite mission and address critical organizational needs.

Amanda brings a wealth of experience from her tenure at Amazon, where she managed a portfolio of digital health companies driving innovation for AWS's enterprise healthcare and life sciences customers. In a previous role at Amazon, Amanda launched a Health and Wellness domain on Alexa, helping consumers at home manage medications, navigate the health system, and access care.

Amanda has held executive roles in digital health strategy and innovation at BTG (now Boston Scientific), Aetna, Purchaser Business Group on Health, the California Department of Health and Human Services, and two major health systems: Mass General Brigham and New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. 

Robert brings over two decades of leadership experience. He has previously held positions at UC Davis, UC Office of the President, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. 

He is deeply committed to mentoring and developing employee success at every level of an organization. Robert is particularly skilled in partnering with organizations to enhance employee engagement, promote accountability, and facilitate effective change management.

Robert will be providing human resources support to the Department of Public Safety and the Office of General Counsel. 

Victoria joins us from Baylor College of Medicine, where she served as the Director of Research Administration in the Office of Sponsored Programs. She has deep expertise in research administration after serving in multiple roles overseeing research at both the departmental and institutional levels. She is also working on a dissertation in research administration, which she expects to complete in 2026.

In this new role as Assistant Dean for Research Operations, Victoria will provide strategic and operational oversight of the School of Medicine’s research operations and lead the Research Management Group (RMG). She will be a key point of contact for research teams throughout the School of Medicine and our health systems and will be a primary liaison with research leaders across the university. Victoria will also play a key role in an initiative to optimize our research proposal development and study activation processes to support the continued growth of the medical school’s research portfolio.

Dr. Wolff has extensive experience leading DEIB-related strategies and initiatives focused on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and academic medicine at public and private institutions across the United States.

Dr. Wolff most recently served as the interim Chief Inclusion Officer at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. She previously served as the inaugural Equity and Inclusion Administrative Fellow for the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Division of Science and Department of Physics, Assistant Dean and Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and as the inaugural Associate Dean for Diversity for the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.

Benita holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Lincoln University (MO), a Master of Education in Higher Education Administration from the University of Toledo, and a Doctor of Education in Education and Leadership in Healthcare from Nebraska Methodist College.

In her free time, Dr. Wolff enjoys spending time with her family, reading, and traveling.

Lynn is a strategic development and external relations executive with more than 30 years of experience, including senior leadership positions at Wellesley College, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and, most recently, the University of Southern California. At USC, Lynn managed all programmatic and personnel efforts to secure philanthropic support and industry engagement for the Iovine and Young Academy (IYA). Lynn has successfully implemented development and external relations programs that led to IYA achieving its vision to nurture critical thinking and creativity at the intersection of human-centered design, technology, and entrepreneurship. 

As the Senior Associate Dean for Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Lynn will oversee teams managing communications; development; alumni, community relations; volunteer engagement; and events.

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