Natalie Douglas

“In my experience, I think most boards tend to get formally structured at the point when external investment is coming in. So investors tend to implement or insist on some form of board structure.”

— From Patti's People - Patti Peeples speaks with Natalie Douglas and Ragan Hart - Part 2, Becaris Publishing (June 24, 2025)

“One of the biggest issues I find is that there's a complete lack of independence and this can be quite common on private equity boards actually and VC boards to some extent where you tend to have representation from every investor. So you've got too many investor directors and no independence or not enough independence...”

— From Patti's People - Patti Peeples speaks with Natalie Douglas and Ragan Hart - Part 2, Becaris Publishing (June 24, 2025)

“I think investors have been learning along the way. I think we saw some very high valuations as well and we're clearly not in that marketplace at the moment. So we're getting back to sort of realistic business principles even with these tech enabled models.”

— From Patti's People - Patti Peeples speaks with Natalie Douglas and Ragan Hart - Part 1, Becaris Publishing (June 23, 2025)

“I think approaching the investor community is a strategy in itself for a business and I think that there's multiple ways of doing it particularly today. The starting point though for me and using my own experience was actually creating a strong brand in my market whether it was for my customers or whether it was the in...”

— From Patti's People - Patti Peeples speaks with Natalie Douglas and Ragan Hart - Part 1, Becaris Publishing (June 23, 2025)

“I'm probably one of the first women to get private Equity backing in any business let alone a health care business that was quite complex to explain.”

— From The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare | S3 E3 | Natalie Douglas | Inventing, Investing, Advising, The Krinsky Company (June 05, 2024)

“I think it's quite hard to achieve that actually so I can understand for them the Dilemma there in but but also for me just how it was a heartbreaking process but I would say that most in most founder entrepreneurs I think if when they have to part ways or where things change it's no longer their baby I would say most...”

— From The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare | S3 E3 | Natalie Douglas | Inventing, Investing, Advising, The Krinsky Company (June 05, 2024)