Our Team: Ellen LaPointe

ellen-lapointe.jpgEllen LaPointe

Vice President, Strategic Partnerships

Ellen LaPointe is responsible for developing strategic private and public sector partnerships to increase HopeLab’s institutional resources, leverage the impact of HopeLab’s innovative solutions, and raise awareness of HopeLab’s work among thought leaders, policymakers, and key stakeholders. In her role, she has cultivated mutually beneficial relationships between HopeLab and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Starlight Children’s Foundation, the Children’s Oncology Camping Association, the Lance Armstrong Foundation, the Entertainment Software Association Foundation, CIGNA HealthCare, Kaiser Permanente, and Vivendi, among others.

Ellen assumed the role of Vice President of Strategic Partnerships in May 2007, following her tenure as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at HopeLab. In her previous role, Ellen oversaw the public launch of HopeLab’s first product, the Re-Mission video game for teens and young adults with cancer, and early program development of HopeLab’s obesity-related initiatives.

Ellen has extensive experience in organizational leadership, strategy development and implementation, partnership cultivation, fund development, communications, financial management, and program oversight. Before joining HopeLab, Ellen served as Executive Director of Project Inform, a national non-profit AIDS treatment information and advocacy organization. Prior to that, she was an associate at the law firm HellerEhrman LLP in San Francisco and was Director of Clinical Research at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco.

Ellen received her B.A., magna cum laude, in Community Health from Brown University and her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt School of Law.