Lisa Neal-Graves

CEO, Aurora Wellness Community

Director since 2021, Class Two (Term Expiring 2025)
Member of Audit Committee


Lisa Neal-Graves is CEO of the University of Colorado School of Medicine nonprofit entity, the Aurora Wellness Community, an innovative collaborative to address the social determinants of health. Prior to her current role, Ms. Neal-Graves served as the Chief Innovation Officer for the Colorado Attorney General; General Counsel and Chief Marketing Officer of Universal Plasma, LLC, an early-stage antenna technology company; Vice President and General Manager of the Cloud Strategic Product Group for Zayo Group; and in various roles at Intel Corporation, including Corporate Counsel for the CIO and positions of increasing responsibility and impact for the company’s strategic technology and research planning. Ms. Neal-Graves also held positions such as Vice President of R&D, Chief Technology Officer, Senior VP/General Manager, and Chief Information Officer with industry frontrunners such as Unisys, Chase, Deloitte, Lucent, and AT&T.

In addition to serving as a director on the board of Coherent Corp., Ms. Neal-Graves is the vice chair of the Rocky Mountain Public Media/PBS board of directors and a director on the board of BEN Colorado. Ms. Neal-Graves is a graduate of Hampton University, where she obtained her undergraduate degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. She also holds a master’s in Computer Science from Michigan State University (with an emphasis in Artificial Intelligence), a master’s in Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder, and a J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law.

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