Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 6
Number of Founded Organizations 1
  • Primary Job Title Co-Founder & Managing Partner
  • Primary Organization 
    GBS Ventures
  • Investor Type  Investment Partner

Brigitte Smith is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at GBS since 1996. Brigitte has twenty years’ experience in venture capital, business strategy and start-up company operations. Brigitte has been investing and managing investments for GBS’s $450m of life science specialised venture capital funds since 1998.

Brigitte is on the board of GBS

portfolio companies AirXpanders Inc, Endoluminal Sciences Pty Ltd, Neuromonics Pty Ltd, Proacta Inc, and Vivive Inc.

Brigitte was the founding Investor and Chair of Pharmaxis Pty Ltd.

Prior to founding GBS Brigitte worked in the US and Australia in operating roles with early stage technology based companies and at Bain & Company as a Strategic Management Consultant.

Brigitte has a B.Chem Eng (Honours) from the University of Melbourne and as a Fulbright Scholar completed a MBA (Honours) from the Harvard Business School and a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, both in Boston, USA.

Number of Partner Investments 13
Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 1
Brigitte Smith is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner at GBS Ventures. Additionally, Brigitte Smith has had 1 past job as the Strategic Management Consultant at Bain & Company.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Bain & Company
Strategic Management ConsultantJan 1989Jan 1992
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 6
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 2
Brigitte Smith holds 6 board and advisor roles including Member of the Board of Directors at Elastagen, Member of the Board of Directors at Endoluminal Sciences, and Member of the Board of Directors at AirXpanders.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Humanigen
Member of the Board of DirectorsJan 2004Jan 2013
Proacta
Member of the Board of DirectorsJan 2004Feb 2012
Brigitte Smith studied at Tufts UniversityUniversity of Melbourne, and Harvard Business School.
Number of News Articles 3
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