Chandana Haque

Chandana Haque is Executive Director and co-founder of Altitude Lab, a health care startup incubator focused on supporting and developing underrepresented founders in Utah. Altitude Lab’s startups attract more than 70% of Utah’s health care seed investments each year. Prior to launching Altitude Lab, Chandana spent over a decade leading product and commercial strategy for life science startups in San Francisco. Chandana earned her B.S. in Molecular Biology at Carnegie Mellon and her MBA from UC Berkeley—Haas School of Business where she focused her graduate work in strategic finance and innovation. While earning her degree, she worked in venture capital and researched novel approaches to innovation. Despite her varied experiences, Chandana considers herself a scientist first, and is driven by a profound belief in technology’s potential to improve humanity.