Eileen Tanghal is the co-founder and Managing Director of Black Opal Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund investing in hard tech healthcare. Eileen has almost twenty years of venture capital experience and has been involved with and sat on the boards of over 40 high-tech startup companies in the US and Europe as a financial venture capitalist, corporate venture capitalist, and on behalf of the US intelligence communityEileen has been featured in Forbes, IEEE Spectrum, and Venture Capital Journal. She is an MIT alum (electrical engineering) and London Business School alum (MBA).