Carolee Lee

Founder & CEO

WHAM (Women's Health Access Matters)

Carolee Lee is an innovator, entrepreneur and thought leader dedicated to improving women’s health and wellbeing, and their opportunities to succeed. She was founder and CEO of Carolee Designs, one of the world’s leading accessories brands. Carolee launched WHAM (Women’s Health Access Matters), a nonprofit organization working to bring awareness and funding to women’s health research to transform women’s lives. Carolee forged a research partnership with the RAND Corporation to create The WHAM Report, the first study to analyze the economic costs, benefits and social impacts of health research that focuses specifically on women. The WHAM Report is changing the conversation around women’s health research, proving women’s health research is an economic issue we cannot afford to ignore. Through partnerships with leading advocacy groups, business leaders, researchers and economists, WHAM is using this data drive change.

 

Carolee is also a mentor and leader in business, philanthropic and educational organizations. She is a past Chair and Foundation Board Chair of the Committee of 200, a community of the most successful women in business, and has served as director on the board of DSW, Inc. Carolee is a founding board member of The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, where she has served since 1986. She currently sits on the Women’s Leadership Board at The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Joanne Armstrong

Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Women's Health and Genomics

CVS Health

Kevin Ali

CEO

Organon

Sarah Haylock-Jacobs

Head of Clinical Development

BiomeBank

Sarah is a PhD scientist with over 5 years experience designing and coordinating clinical trials in North America and Australia.

She has experience with FDA and TGA governed clinical trials and co-ordinating hospital sites on large multicentre studies.

Carey Jordan

Partner

Vorys

Carey Jordan is a partner at Vorys and a patent veteran with two decades of experience handling patent prosecution matters, patent challenges, litigation and intellectual property counseling. Carey has dealt with the gamut of intellectual property issues facing large companies. Her forte is managing global patent portfolios efficiently and cost-effectively in alignment with clients’ business goals.  Carey leads our patent team, which includes a technically diverse team of attorneys and agents with degrees in chemistry, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, biosciences, technology, etc. 

Carey led our effort to develop our unique suite of patent services called PatentlyIntegrated™. PatentlyIntegrated is a modular and flexible patenting system that can be adapted to create a unique solution for our clients.  It provides clients with real cost controls, data-based analyses, and tools to strengthen their patent portfolios for efficient patent spend management.

Carey also regularly counsels clients with respect to licensing, clearance issues and trade secret issues with respect to their global operations. She is considered by clients to be responsive, talented, and a creative out-of-the-box thinker.

Carey's personal passion is to encourage women to study science and engineering.  For example, at Clemson University, her alma mater, Carey has established a scholarship campaign to aid women studying science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) obtain their degrees and pursue careers in STEM or IP.

Carey received her J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center, and her M.S. and B.S. in Chemistry from Clemson University.