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Rachel has 30+ years working as a business builder and marketing strategist to drive topline growth. As Managing Partner and Co-Founder of SPARK Solutions for Growth, a strategic and marketing consultancy, Rachel helps brands and businesses grow. With broad experience in marketing, business development and sales, Rachel has built an international client list that includes Johnson & Johnson, Allergan, Pfizer, Merck, Bayer and Church & Dwight, as well as venture-backed start-ups. Rachel has successfully repositioned brands, created distribution partnerships, built new product pipelines and helped companies capitalize on important trends. While President and co-founder of Semprae Laboratories, Rachel and her team built a company that developed and marketed sexual health and wellness products for women - creating a new category and transforming women’s health. As a business builder and Vagipreneur®, she has become the go-to women’s health matchmaker - finding the right partners, solutions and tactics to help bring businesses to the next level. Rachel’s career-long learnings and recommendations are at the heart of her best-selling book: Orgasmic Leadership: Profiting from the Coming Surge in Women’s Health and Wellness. In May of 2021, Rachel and her OB/GYN co-host, Dr. Alyssa Dweck, launched a first of its kind podcast , Business of the V, which focuses on the intersection of patients’ concerns, unmet needs, unanswered questions and the businesses being created to meet those needs. As an accomplished speaker, Rachel is featured at leadership and entrepreneurship events at colleges, universities, corporations and conferences, including CES, SXSW, Johnson & Johnson, AbbVie, Pennsylvania Conference for Women, Minnesota Vikings, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Yale and Duke, among others. Rachel has appeared on ABC News, CBS News, msnbc, and has been interviewed for major platforms including The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, and CNN. Rachel has contributed over 4 dozen articles to The Huffington Post and Inc. After graduating Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Duke, Rachel earned an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where she has stayed actively involved. Rachel served on the Duke New York Women’s Executive Board, the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Duke as well as the Stanford Women on Boards initiative. In addition to serving on Boards, Rachel mentors female founders in the women's health space.
Rachel is a co-founder and principal of SPARK Solutions for Growth, a strategic consultancy focused on growth. She leads healthcare company client engagements around driving top-line growth results for clients in pharmaceuticals, consumer products, health and beauty. In her role, Rachel works with cross-functional client teams to help them build their businesses by accelerating growth, identifying product/service ideas, and driving results. Rachel has worked with leading healthcare companies, including Johnson & Johnson, Wyeth, Pfizer, Bayer, Merck as well as other world class service companies, like American Express and Disney. Rachel has a specific expertise in the female sexual health category and during her tenure as co-founder and President of Semprae Laboratories, Inc., she built and sold the company whose flagship product was Zestra, a female sexual health solution. SPARK Solutions for Growth is a certified Women-Owned Business (WBENC) and a member of the Women Presidents Organization (WPO). Skills in this Role: Marketing, Entrepreneurship. VC work, P&L Management, Turn-around, Team Management, Leadership
I am part of the founding team because we need better, system-changing solutions that solve real problems and improve outcomes. 51& is a member-driven network that brings together women’s voices, resources, and collective influence to rebuild the foundation of a health system that finally works for women. For too long, women’s health has been underfunded, understudied, and undervalued. 51& exists to change that — by connecting members, institutions, organizations, and healthcare innovators to turn community, data, and advocacy into lasting impact: funding research, driving bipartisan policy, and fueling innovation across the women’s health ecosystem. My mission is to help every woman see that her membership, her dollar, and her vote matter — and together, they have the power to transform the foundation of healthcare. Because when women come together — as members, voters, and leaders — the system shifts.
Dr. Alyssa Dweck & Rachel Braun-Scherl are co-hosts of Business of the V podcast and here to introduce you to the most fascinating inventors, investors, thought leaders and health care professionals who are in the Business of The V. Listen to Business of the V on your favorite podcast platform and follow us on social media for updates on new releases and more discussions about the business of women's health. The podcast focuses on the intersection of unmet needs and the businesses being created to address those needs. If you are a woman, know a woman, have a business or care about your v health and wellness, this is the podcast for you. Dr. Alyssa Dweck is a gynecologist, surgeon and author. She's an expert on V health who explores what’s on other women’s minds when it comes to periods, hormones, breasts, butts and sex. Rachel Braun-Scherl is a marketing strategist, business builder and vagipreneur,, a person in the business of women’s sexual and reproductive health. It's complicated!
Contributor covering Women’s Health, FemTech, and Sexual & Reproductive Health Innovation for Forbes. I deliver original, well-researched, and accurately sourced articles that meet Forbes’ editorial and ethical standards, offering expert analysis informed by deep industry experience.
Global event series uniting leaders across healthcare, FemTech, investment, and policy to advance women's health.