Monica Liley Skok (Advisory Board)
Founder
Rootstock Solutions

Monica is has spent her career promoting progress in health through her philanthropic efforts and her professional pursuits as an investment banker.  Her involvement on both sides of the health capital equation has convinced Monica that combining the best intentions and practices from the public and private sectors of health can lead to meaningful return on investment – financial return for investors, and productive social impact for communities. The drive to achieve this goal motivated Monica to co-found Rootstock Solutions in 2009. 

Prior to founding Rootstock, Monica was a partner at investment banking firm St. Charles Capital, where she led the healthcare industry practice. Before joining St. Charles, she worked as vice president with Green Manning & Bunch, where she specialized in investment banking transactions for healthcare companies. Her previous work includes positions with J.P. Morgan & Co. in New York City, and at the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C. In her career as an investment banker she participated in more than 40 merger and acquisition, financing, and financial advisory engagements with a total value in excess of $7 billion.

Monica has also put her professional expertise and passion for health together to participate in health-related organizations, currently serving on the board of directors of The Colorado Health Foundation. She also provides strategic guidance, particularly relating to social enterprise initiatives, as a co- founder and advisory board member of the Level One Society of the Denver Health Foundation.

In addition to Monica’s health-focused community involvement, she also sits on the board of directors of the Children’s Museum of Denver, and has served on the finance committee of the Women’s Foundation of Colorado, as well as on the advisory board of the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. She was selected to participate in the Leadership Denver program of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, and was recently recognized as one of Denver’s “Forty Under 40” by the Denver Business Journal.

Monica received her bachelor’s degree in Asian studies, with a Chinese concentration, from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has her Series 7 and Series 63 licenses.